EnglishFree trial
€0
- 15 minutes of transcription
- Messages up to 5 minutes each
- No card needed, just your email
- Every feature except upload links
Read your voice messages instead of playing them.
WhatScribe transcribes voice messages and videos inside WhatsApp Web. The transcript opens in the message bubble, and each word lights up as it is spoken. Drag across a chat to copy all of it as text, in order.
Launching soon on Chrome, Edge and Firefox. See the plans.
Made for the way you already use WhatsApp Web
- Captions for videos
- Regular videos get a transcript too, plus live captions with word highlighting in the full-screen viewer.
- 90+ languages
- The language is detected automatically, so mixed chats just work. Transcription runs on ElevenLabs Scribe.
- Saved in your browser
- Transcripts are kept locally, so reopening one is instant and costs no minutes. Clear them from the popup any time.
- Copy the text
- Copy a transcript to quote it, search it or paste it into your notes.
Supercharge your productivity
Drag across the chat background to select messages, then press Ctrl+C (⌘C on a Mac). Your clipboard gets them in order, with names, times and transcripts of voice messages and videos, ready for your notes, a ticket or an AI tool.
Pasted text
## Chat: Site crew
The door on level 3 won't lock again
Here's the latch
image → …/site-crew-2026-11-02-0916/002.jpg
It's the strike plate, it came loose. I'll bring a new one after lunch.
voice, 0:42 → …/site-crew-2026-11-02-0916/003.ogg
- Select your way
- Drag past the edge and the chat scrolls with you. Ctrl-click adds or removes one message, and Shift-click selects everything since your last pick.
- Files come along
- Photos, videos and documents save to your Downloads folder, numbered to match the text. On Pro and Max you can turn on upload links, which are deleted after 7 days.
- Text instead of files
- With Voice and video as text only, you keep the transcript and skip the file. If there's no transcript, the file stays.
- Names left out
- Hide names turns senders into Person A and Person B and masks phone numbers and emails, in the text and transcripts. Turn off Include the chat's name to drop it from the text and the folder too. Photos and files aren't changed.
Your AI agent gets the whole chat, photos included
Paste it in and ask anything. It works wherever your agent runs.
An agent on your computer opens saved files from their paths. An agent in the cloud can't, so turn on Upload files for links and it gets a link instead.
Learning a language? Read along as your teacher speaks.
Voice messages from your teacher or tandem partner, with every word lit up as it is spoken. Tap a word to hear it again, and catch what you would miss by ear.
Great work today! For Thursday, please review the present perfect and write five sentences about your weekend. See you then!
How it works
Set up once in about a minute. After that, it is one click per message.
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Install the extension
Add WhatScribe to Chrome, Edge or Firefox on your computer and open WhatsApp Web.
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Sign in with your email
Enter your email in the WhatScribe popup and type the 6-digit code we send you. No password, no card.
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WhatScribe
Every voice message and video gets a WhatScribe button. Click it and the transcript opens in the bubble. On videos, CC turns on live captions in the full-screen viewer. To copy several messages, drag across the chat background.
Pricing
Try it free. Upgrade when it becomes part of your day.
Pro
€4.99per month
- 300 minutes per month
- Messages up to 15 minutes each
- 300 file uploads per month, up to 250 MB each
- Use it in any of your browsers
- Cancel anytime
Enable JavaScript to subscribe, or upgrade from the extension.
Max
€9.99per month
- 1,000 minutes per month
- Messages up to 30 minutes each
- 1,000 file uploads per month, up to 250 MB each
- Use it in any of your browsers
- Cancel anytime
Enable JavaScript to subscribe, or upgrade from the extension.
Prices include VAT. Payments are processed by Stripe, and Link (Stripe's checkout) is the seller of record (merchant of record), so your receipt comes from Link and your card statement shows LINK.COM*. Minutes are counted on the length of the audio you transcribe and reset on each billing date; unused minutes don't carry over. Copying messages only uses minutes for the voice messages and videos it transcribes. Free trials share a monthly budget: if it runs out, trials pause until the next month.
Questions
What happens to my audio?
Nothing leaves your browser until you click WhatScribe on a message or transcribe a selection. Then that message's audio is sent to the WhatScribe API and on to ElevenLabs, which turns it into text. The WhatScribe API stores neither the audio nor the transcript.
The transcript is saved only in your browser, and you can clear it from the popup. There are no ads and no analytics. The privacy policy has the details.
Where do the files go when I copy messages?
By default they save to a whatscribe folder in your Downloads,
without passing through our servers. The copied text has each file's path. Files
can be up to 500 MB.
On Pro and Max, turn on Upload files for links in the popup, and the text has links instead, handy for an AI tool that can't read your computer. Files up to 250 MB go to WhatScribe's servers and are deleted after 7 days. Anyone with a link can open it, so treat it like the file itself. If an upload can't go through, the file saves to your Downloads instead.
Which languages does it understand?
More than 90, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Hindi and Swedish. You don't pick a language; it is detected for each message.
Which browsers and devices does it work on?
Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a computer, with WhatsApp Web open in a tab. It does not run inside the WhatsApp phone or desktop apps.
Your plan belongs to your email, so it works in every browser where you sign in, for example your laptop and your work computer.
What happens when WhatsApp updates?
WhatScribe reads messages through WA-JS, an open-source library that follows WhatsApp Web's internals. When WhatsApp ships a big change, WhatScribe can stop working for a day or two until WA-JS and WhatScribe are updated. Your transcripts saved in the browser stay where they are.
What happens when I run out of minutes?
WhatScribe tells you in the message bubble, and transcripts you already have keep working. Pro and Max minutes come back on each billing date. A message is only started if you have enough minutes left for its full length. When you copy messages, the text and files still arrive, and a note marks anything that couldn't be transcribed.
How do I sign in?
Open the WhatScribe popup, enter your email and type the 6-digit code we send you. There is no password. If you subscribed on this page, use the same email you paid with.
How do I cancel?
Open the WhatScribe popup and choose Manage subscription, or go to link.com. Your plan keeps working until the end of the period you have paid for. Refunds follow Link's and Stripe's policies.
Can I use it with AI tools?
Yes. Select messages, copy, and paste the text into the AI tool or agent you use. WhatScribe doesn't connect to it or send it anything. What you paste then follows that tool's own privacy terms, so you can hide names first in the popup. Hiding is best effort: it masks senders' names, phone numbers and emails, but not a name in a photo or someone only mentioned in passing.
Do I need to share my WhatsApp login?
No. WhatScribe runs in the WhatsApp Web tab you are already signed in to. It only reads the messages you click or select, and never sends messages for you.
Is WhatScribe made by WhatsApp?
No. WhatScribe is an independent extension. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WhatsApp or Meta.
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