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Transcribe your Instagram Reels and videos

Turn your own Reels into captions, carousels, blog posts and searchable text. Download your video, drop it in, done.

Free: 60 min per 30 days, files up to 30 min / 50 MB · Paid plans: 10 to 100 hrs, files up to 2 GB. Big video? Upload just its audio track: same transcript, much faster upload.

Encrypted in transit · audio & video auto-delete in 30 days · never used to train AI

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Last updated 21 July 2026

Captions are non-negotiable on Instagram: most feeds play muted, and Reels with on-screen text hold attention far longer. Transcribing your own Reel gives you accurate caption text (fix a name once, it stays fixed) instead of relying on rough auto-captions, plus a script you can turn into a carousel, a blog post or a newsletter.

The flow is simple and entirely your content: download your Reel or video from your own Instagram account (or use the original file from your editor), upload it here, and get a time-coded transcript you can edit and export as SRT/VTT captions or plain text. Nothing is fetched from Instagram; you upload the file you already own.

For creators running multi-platform, the transcript is the connective tissue: the same corrected text becomes the TikTok caption file, the YouTube Shorts subtitle track and the LinkedIn post, with names and product terms fixed once instead of three times. Reels are short, so the cost side barely registers: the free plan's 60 monthly minutes cover a serious posting schedule, and a 45-second Reel transcribes in seconds.

How it works

  1. 1Download your Reel from your own account (or grab the original from your editor).
  2. 2Upload the video file. The speech is read straight from it.
  3. 3Edit any word inline, then export SRT/VTT captions or copy the text.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Can I paste an Instagram link instead of uploading?

No, Instagram links aren't accepted; Trustample transcribes files you upload and is built for content you own. For your own Reels that is never a blocker: the pre-upload export from CapCut, Premiere or your camera roll is the best source because its audio skipped Instagram's compression, and your posted videos can be downloaded from your own account when the original is gone.

How do I get my Reel as a file?

You usually still have the original video from whatever you edited it in (CapCut, Premiere, your phone). If not, you can download your own posts from your Instagram account. Then drop the file into Trustample.

Can I make styled captions for the video?

Export SRT or VTT and import into CapCut, Premiere or your editor to style and burn them in. The cue timings come from word-level timestamps, so they land on the right frames.

Does it work for longer Instagram videos, not just Reels?

Yes, any Instagram video file works, up to your plan's per-file length. Reels transcribe in seconds; longer videos take a few minutes.

My Reel is a voiceover on a trending audio. What will the transcript contain?

The voiceover. Spoken audio (talking-head, voiceover, dialogue) transcribes well, while music and lyrics don't, which is true of every speech model and beside the point anyway since lyrics carry their own rights. A Reel that is only a trending sound with on-screen text has nothing for a transcript to capture.

Does a transcript help my Reel get discovered?

Instagram's search reads caption text, so pasting the key lines of your transcript into the post caption gives the platform actual words to index instead of guessing from the video. It also makes your own archive searchable: six months from now, finding the Reel where you explained a specific feature takes one search instead of thirty scrubs.

An honest note: Trustample transcribes your own recordings and files, and it deliberately never downloads content from Instagram or anyone else's account. Transcribe the videos you have the rights to, which is exactly what you already have as files.

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