The YouTube transcript, the way it should work.
Click any line to jump. Translate to 100+ languages. Watch the panel scroll along like lyrics. Copy the line you need.
Read every line. In any language.
A clean sidebar opens inside YouTube's right column with every cue of the video. The active line stays highlighted as the video plays — auto-scroll keeps it in view. Translate to 100+ languages with one tap.
- One red Transcript button next to YouTube's Save
- Works on every video with captions (manual or auto)
- Sidebar scrolls independently of the YouTube page
Six things it does well
Click-to-seek
Tap any line in the sidebar and the YouTube player jumps to that timestamp. No scrubbing.
Translate to 100+ languages
Switch the entire transcript to your language with one tap — Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, French, and many more.
Auto-scroll like lyrics
The panel follows the speaker. The current cue stays highlighted in view as the video plays.
Copy the current line
One tap copies the line currently playing — perfect for notes, quotes, or vocabulary.
Search every line
Type a phrase to filter the transcript. Click any match to jump there.
Lives inside YouTube
The sidebar mounts into YouTube's right column. Sticky-top, ~60% viewport height, doesn't steal scroll from the page.
How we get the transcript (and why it never leaves your browser)
Pip Cue calls YouTube's own timedtext endpoint — the same one YouTube's player uses internally to show captions. Translation goes through the same endpoint with the &tlang= parameter, routed by YouTube's translation backend.
All caption data lives only in your active tab. We don't upload it, log it, store it on any server, or remember which videos you read transcripts of. Read the full privacy policy.
Who lives in the transcript sidebar
Translate to your language
Read in your target language; switch to native for tricky lines.
StudentsSearch the lecture
Find the exact line the professor said, jump there, copy it into notes.
ResearchersCapture interview quotes
Copy any line with timestamp; send the whole video to NotebookLM.
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