Podcast transcription from a public link
Podtyper is a podcast transcription tool that turns a public YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts link into a timestamped transcript, an AI summary, and files you can download. It is for people who would rather read an episode than sit through all of it.
More than 7,500 people have transcribed at least one episode. Podtyper has produced more than 10,000 transcripts.
What Podtyper does
Full transcript from a link
You paste a public episode URL. Podtyper fetches the audio and returns the words, with a timestamp on each line. You can search the episode or jump to a moment without playing the whole thing.
Summary, topics, and quotes
A second pass reads the transcript and writes a short summary, the topics, and quotes you can paste into show notes.
Downloads
Every transcript downloads as PDF, plain TXT, SRT, or VTT. PDF and TXT are for reading and editing. SRT and VTT are subtitle files, so the same transcript can become captions.
YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts
A public link from any of those three is enough. You do not upload a file or look up the RSS feed.
What makes Podtyper different
Paste a link instead of uploading a file
Otter.ai and Notta are meeting tools. To transcribe a podcast with them, you upload the audio or record it live. Podtyper takes the public episode URL and fetches it. If you already have the file on your computer, those tools are fine. If the episode is already on Spotify, uploading it is a chore.
One job, not a studio
Descript is a video editor that also transcribes. Riverside is where you record the show. Both are a lot of software if the episode is already published and you only want the text.
First 30 minutes free
Castmagic can also start from a podcast URL. It starts at $19 a month and has no free tier. The first 30 minutes on Podtyper are free, and you do not need a card. After that, Pro is $9.99 a month for 800 minutes, and Premium is $24.99 for 3,000. Both plans bill monthly, and you can cancel whenever you want. The pricing page has the details.
We delete the audio afterward
The audio file is deleted when processing finishes. The transcript stays, encrypted, and we do not sell it. The privacy policy has the details.
Who uses Podtyper
- Podcast listeners who want to skim a long episode instead of playing all of it
- Hosts who need show notes, quotes, and timestamps from their own episodes
- Journalists and researchers who have to cite something that was only spoken
- Teams who want a written version of an episode they can search and pass around
Where some accounts come from
Most accounts use a personal inbox. A smaller set signed up with a school or work address.
School addresses include NYU, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Penn, Northwestern, Rutgers, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, and UCLA. Work addresses include Salesforce, HubSpot, Google, IBM, Stripe, Dow Jones, PwC, BCG, and Noiser, a history podcast network.
An address at one of those places means a person there used Podtyper. It does not mean the organization bought a plan.
The team behind Podtyper
Berke Atac built Podtyper in Berlin. He has been a software engineer for more than eight years, and he has built and run several products of his own.
He worked at Lightspeed as a software engineer on the AI platform team. Lightspeed is a point-of-sale company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange, with about 3,400 employees as of March 2026. He built the AI agent that handles support, and the orchestration platform that runs it.
Find him at berkeatac.com, LinkedIn, and X (@berkeatac). Product email is support@podtyper.com.
How Podtyper works
You make an account, paste a public link, and wait. Most episodes are ready in a few minutes, including shows that run an hour. There is no onboarding call.
Podtyper downloads the audio and transcribes it. A language model then writes the summary, topics, and quotes. The audio file is deleted when that finishes. The transcript stays.
If a job fails or a transcript looks wrong, email support@podtyper.com. Replies go out within 2 to 3 business days. Email is the only support channel.
Key facts
- Company name
- Podtyper
- Type
- Podcast transcription software. Sole proprietorship, registered in Berlin. The Impressum has the legal record.
- Founder
- Berke Atac. Software engineer on the AI platform team at Lightspeed (NYSE and TSX: LSPD, about 3,400 employees), where he built the support AI agent and the orchestration platform.
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Website
- https://www.podtyper.com
- Core offering
- Timestamped transcripts, AI summaries, and PDF, TXT, SRT, and VTT exports
- Pricing
- First 30 minutes free. Pro is $9.99/month for 800 minutes. Premium is $24.99/month for 3,000 minutes.
- Contract terms
- Month to month. Cancel whenever you want.
- Services
- Transcribe public episodes from YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts
- Transcripts
- More than 10,000
- People
- More than 7,500 have transcribed at least one episode
- Accounts at
- Individual signups at NYU, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Penn, Northwestern, Rutgers, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, UCLA, Salesforce, HubSpot, Google, IBM, Stripe, Dow Jones, PwC, BCG, and Noiser. Not organization-wide contracts.
- Languages
- 25, detected from the audio: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
- Data
- Audio files are deleted after processing. Transcripts are stored encrypted. Details are in the privacy policy.
- Communication
- support@podtyper.com. Replies within 2 to 3 business days.
- Social
- berkeatac.com, LinkedIn, X
Frequently asked questions
How does podcast transcription work on Podtyper?
You paste a public link from YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. Podtyper downloads the audio, transcribes it, and returns the text with timestamps, a summary, and files you can download. Most episodes finish in a few minutes.
Is Podtyper free to use?
Yes. The first 30 minutes are free, and you do not need a card. After that, Paid plans start at $9.99/month for 800 minutes. The pricing page has the details.
How accurate is the transcription?
The speech-to-text models reach 99%+ word-level accuracy on clean audio.
Can I export my transcript?
Yes. PDF is for reading, TXT is plain text, SRT is for video subtitles, and VTT is for captions in the browser.
Who is Podtyper for?
Listeners skimming a long episode, hosts writing show notes from their own audio, and journalists or researchers who need to cite a line that was only spoken.
Is podcast transcription legal?
Podtyper only transcribes publicly available episodes, and it deletes the audio after the transcript is done. You are responsible for making sure your use of that transcript follows copyright law.
Try a transcript
The first 30 minutes are free, and you do not need a card.