Scribiz status

What works right now, source by source, and whether Listen and Watch are running.

Working

Scribiz

Updated 2026-11-12 14:45 UTC

What works where

Works on the web and in the Mac app.

YouTube, public videos
Captions when they are good, listening when they are not. Shorts and finished live streams included.
Direct audio and video links
A link that points straight at an .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .mp4, .mov or .webm file.
Podcast episodes
The episode audio from an RSS feed, as a direct file link.
Files you upload
Audio files up to 100 MB and video files up to 500 MB have their audio extracted in the browser (about 50 minutes when the browser falls back to WAV); signed-in accounts can upload videos up to 1 GB.

Reliable in the Mac app, which fetches with your own connection.

TikTok
Public videos. TikTok blocks servers at times.
Instagram
Public Reels and posts. A pasted link is usually refused, because Instagram asks for a login, which the Mac app can use.
X
Public posts with video.
Vimeo
Public videos that allow viewing without a password.
Facebook
Public videos only.

Does not work anywhere.

Spotify, Netflix and other DRM services
The audio is copy protected. Nothing can read it.
Private, age-restricted and login-walled videos
Anything that needs a signed-in session. Upload the file if it is yours.
Live streams in progress
Wait for the replay.

When a link fails, the result says why, and offers ways forward: upload the file, or open the link in Scribiz for Mac.

Email [email protected] with the link that failed and what you saw.