MySwipe
Inside one video
- Open the video and expand the description.
- Tap Show transcript. It appears on any video with captions.
- Tap a line to jump the video to that moment.
On a computer, the transcript opens in a side panel, and Cmd+F or Ctrl+F finds a word in it. On a phone there’s no find box, so you scroll. Auto-generated captions misspell names and jargon often enough that searching a few different spellings can help.
Across the videos you’ve saved
Watch Later and playlists hold your videos, but YouTube doesn’t search their transcripts together. For that, the transcripts need to live somewhere searchable.
If you bookmark on a computer, Raindrop.io’s Pro plan searches the full text of pages you save there, YouTube transcripts included. If you save from your phone, and your saves are a mix of YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, that’s what MySwipe is for.
Share a video to MySwipe and it keeps the transcript, with timings. Search for what you remember, and the result shows the matching line with its timestamp, like Transcript · 41:12 in a three-day Oregon road trip video. Search works by meaning too, so “best time for photos at Cannon Beach” finds the part about golden hour at low tide.
What to expect
MySwipe is an iPhone app today, with a Chrome extension on the way. It reads the videos you share to it from now on. It doesn’t import your Watch Later list. The video itself is never copied. Tapping a save opens it on YouTube.
