SRT Cleaner — Remove Timestamps from SRT Files

SRT (SubRip Subtitle) is the most common subtitle format. It is a plain-text file made of numbered blocks, and each block has a sequence number, a timecode line such as 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,200, and the caption text. YouTube, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, VLC and Whisper all read and write SRT files.

An SRT cleaner strips everything except the words: sequence numbers, timecodes, blank spacer lines and leftover formatting tags like <i> and <b>. You get readable plain text to use as a transcript, script, blog post or show notes. This one can also convert the file to a tidy WebVTT file with the timestamps kept.

Drop your .srt file into the SRT Cleaner above and choose the plain-text output. The timestamps and sequence numbers are removed instantly, and you can copy the result or download it as a .txt file. No find-and-replace or regular expressions needed.

Use the plain-text output: the SRT Cleaner joins the caption lines into clean text with no timecodes, then lets you download it as a .txt file or copy it to your clipboard. The same works for .vtt files.

Both are plain-text caption formats with almost the same structure. VTT (WebVTT) starts with a WEBVTT header, uses a dot instead of a comma in timecodes (00:00:01.000), doesn't need sequence numbers, and supports styling and positioning. SRT is simpler and more widely supported by video editors. Web players generally prefer VTT.

Drop the .srt file into the SRT Cleaner and choose the clean VTT output. It adds the WEBVTT header, rewrites the timecodes in VTT format, removes the sequence numbers and formatting tags, and lets you download the .vtt file.

In YouTube Studio, open the video, go to Subtitles, open the menu next to the language track and choose Download. You can pick .srt or .vtt. Auto-generated captions can be downloaded the same way, and they are exactly the kind of messy file this tool is built to clean.

An SRT file is plain text, so any text editor can open it: Notepad on Windows, TextEdit on Mac, or VS Code. Video players like VLC load it as subtitles when it sits next to the video with the same file name. To read it without the timecodes, drop it into the SRT Cleaner.

No. The file is read by your browser and parsed in JavaScript on your device. It is never sent to a server, which makes the cleaner safe to use with unreleased or confidential transcripts.