YouTube video to flashcards,
in the time it takes to copy a transcript.
Spoken material makes poor cards unless something trims it. That is the job here.
No account, two decks a day, and the Anki export sits on the free tier.
Open any question to see the line it came from. Paste 40 characters or more to start.
A video makes worse flashcards than a textbook does.
Nobody speaks in card sized facts. A ten minute explainer states its main point four separate times, detours into an anecdote about the speaker's cat, and buries the one number you needed inside a subordinate clause. Push a raw transcript through a naive generator and you get thirty cards, six of which are the same idea and two of which are about the sponsor.
So the deck this produces is deliberately smaller than the transcript could support. One question, one answer, taken from a sentence that was actually carrying information, and shown to you with that sentence attached. Read them before you import. A card you keep by accident is a card you will look at two hundred times.
From the transcript panel into your collection.
- On the video, open the three dot menu, choose Show transcript, then switch timestamps off in the panel's own menu.
- Select all, copy, and paste above with the tool set to flashcards.
- Read the cards as they arrive. Each shows the transcript line behind it, which is exactly where auto caption errors give themselves away.
- Export. A tab separated .txt for Anki's File then Import, or a CSV if you want to tidy it first.
You get
- Cards from any transcript you can copy
- The source line under every card
- Anki tab separated export and CSV, free
- Two decks a day, no account
- Cards you can read in the page before exporting
You do not get
- A URL box. You copy the transcript yourself
- Spaced repetition, intervals or reminders
- Cloze deletion, image or audio cards
- Screenshots from the video on the card
- An .apkg package, at least not yet
What we will not do to your deck
No scheduling, no review queue, no streaks, no notifications. This is a generator. It hands the deck to whatever you already review in.
RemNote ranks first for this search and is a full notebook with spaced repetition built in. If you want the cards to live inside the tool that made them, that is the honest recommendation and we will not talk you out of it. Gizmo and Scholarly bundle cards into their own study apps the same way. StudyGlen and Heuristica do the conversion and keep you on site for the reviewing. Our position is the opposite one: make the file, hand it over, get out of the way.
Before you import anything
How many cards will a ten minute video give me?
It depends on how dense the video is. A tight explainer yields more than a rambling one of the same length. Read what comes back and export when it looks right, rather than trusting a number.
Can I paste the video URL instead?
No. We fetch nothing from YouTube. Open the transcript panel, select all, copy. It is about ten seconds of work and it keeps working when YouTube redesigns things.
Does the deck import cleanly into Anki?
It is a tab separated .txt. In Anki choose File then Import, set the note type to Basic, the separator to Tab, and map field one to Front and field two to Back.
What about a video with no captions?
There is no transcript to copy, so there is nothing to paste. This tool cannot listen to audio, and we are not going to pretend it can.
Is the export really free?
Yes, on the free tier, no watermark. Being charged to take your own cards somewhere else is the thing this whole tool is reacting against.
Also useful
Or start from the QuizPaste home page, where the same tool takes any text you paste.
QuizPaste is not affiliated with YouTube, Google or Anki. We do not connect to YouTube; you copy the transcript from the panel yourself. Anki is named to describe the file format we export.