DokitscriptLoom is where async work lives. Standups nobody attended live, product walkthroughs, bug reports, onboarding tours, design feedback, customer calls. The video gets recorded, shared in a thread, watched once, then buried. The knowledge inside it is real, but it's trapped: you can't search a Loom, can't quote it in a doc, can't drop it into your help center. This guide shows the exact way to turn any Loom recording into a clean, timestamped text transcript you can search, document and reuse.
Important first: you do not paste a Loom link. The URL field only accepts TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and X. For Loom, you download the video first, then upload the file. The whole flow is below and takes under two minutes of setup.
Why Async Looms Need a Transcript
Async video solved a real problem: it replaced meetings nobody needed with a recording people watch on their own time. But it created a new one. A team that runs on Loom accumulates dozens of recordings a week, and every single one is a black box. You remember a teammate explained the deploy process in "that Loom from last month," but you have to scrub through 14 minutes to find the 40 seconds you need.
A transcript flips a Loom from "watch once and forget" into a permanent, searchable record. The async standup becomes a written log. The product walkthrough becomes a help-center article. The customer feedback call becomes a quotable document your whole team can reference. Nothing about how you record changes, you just stop losing the content the moment the video stops playing.
Time math: typing out a recording by hand takes roughly 4 to 5 minutes of work per 1 minute of audio. A 15-minute Loom walkthrough is over an hour of transcription by hand. AI transcription does the same job in a couple of minutes, timestamps included.
Why You Can't Paste a Loom Link
Dokitscript transcribes social video by URL for a fixed set of platforms: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Shorts, Facebook, and X. Loom is not on that list, so a loom.com/share/... link will not work in the URL box. That is by design, not a missing feature.
The right path for Loom is the Upload button. You download the recording from Loom as an MP4 file (Loom allows this for videos you own, and for shared videos when the owner enabled downloading), then upload that file. The transcription is identical to a URL job: a full transcript with timestamps, AI features, and export. The only extra step is the download. If you ever need the general approach for any file, the convert video to text guide covers the upload flow in detail.
How to Transcribe a Loom Step by Step
Download the Loom as MP4
Open the Loom recording you own. Click the menu (usually a three-dot or download icon) and choose Download. Loom saves the recording as an MP4 file to your computer. If it's someone else's Loom, they need to have downloads enabled, otherwise ask them to send you the file.
Extract the audio if the file is heavy (optional)
A long screen-share walkthrough can produce a large MP4. Since only the audio gets transcribed, converting the recording to an MP3 strips the video and keeps the file light, so it uploads and processes faster. This step is optional but handy for long Looms. Here's how to extract audio from a video and transcribe it.
Upload to Dokitscript
Open dokitscript.com and click the Upload button, not the URL field. Select your MP4 or MP3. Supported formats include MP4, WebM, MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC and AAC, so whatever Loom hands you will work.
Click Transcribe
If the Loom is in a language other than English, set it in the settings dropdown first. Then hit Transcribe. The audio is processed and a full text transcript with timestamps appears once the job finishes. Longer recordings take a little longer to process.
Search, document, export
Use Ctrl+F to jump to any moment in the transcript. Run Summary or Key Points for a quick recap, or Blog Post to draft documentation. Export TXT for plain text, DOCX for editing, SRT for subtitles. Signed in, every transcript is saved to your History page.
Turn your next Loom into a searchable doc
Download, upload, transcribe. Summary, key points and a full transcript in minutes.
Transcribe a Loom video →Long Walkthroughs and Plan Limits
Most Looms are short and to the point, a 3-minute bug report, a 10-minute feature walkthrough. But onboarding tours and full product demos can run long. Dokitscript caps clip length by plan, so match the plan to your typical Loom length:
Under 35 minutes (most Looms)
The Pro plan ($14.99/month) covers clips up to 35 minutes and gives unlimited monthly transcriptions. This fits the vast majority of Looms and is the right tier if you transcribe async videos regularly. The Starter plan ($4.99/month) handles up to 8 minutes, which is plenty for short standups and quick feedback clips.
35 minutes to 5 hours (long demos and onboarding)
The Business plan ($79.99/month) handles up to 5-hour clips and unlocks speaker detection. This is the tier for full onboarding walkthroughs, recorded training sessions, or long product demos that pass the 35-minute mark.
Over 5 hours
If a single recording runs past 5 hours, split it into segments before uploading and transcribe each chunk, then combine the text files at the end. For long onboarding content, recording shorter, focused Looms in the first place is the better habit anyway.
From Loom to Documentation
The real payoff with async video is documentation. A Loom transcript is raw material you can shape into permanent, written assets, the kind that live in a wiki long after the recording is forgotten.
Knowledge base article
Click Blog Post to turn a walkthrough into a structured article with headings. Edit lightly, then paste into your help center, wiki or Notion as a written how-to.
Standup recap
Key Points returns a clean bulleted summary of an async standup or update Loom, perfect to drop into a thread for the teammates who didn't watch.
Searchable record
Saved to your History page, every Loom transcript becomes searchable with Ctrl+F. Find the one explanation you need without scrubbing the video.
Translated walkthrough
Translate the transcript into 90+ languages in one click, so a distributed or international team can read the walkthrough in their own language.
If turning recordings into written content is a recurring task for you, the repurpose video content guide goes deeper on workflows for spinning one video into multiple assets.
Speaker Detection for Recorded Calls
Plenty of Looms are solo screen recordings with one voice, and those transcribe perfectly as a single-speaker document. But some recordings have two presenters, or you've recorded a call with a customer. For those, the Business plan automatically labels who is speaking:
[00:21] Speaker 2: Great, can you start with the reporting tab?
[00:25] Speaker 1: Sure, let me share that view now.
You can rename "Speaker 1" to the actual person's name once and the label applies everywhere they speak. Useful for documenting customer calls, paired walkthroughs or recorded interviews. Speaker detection is a Business plan feature; Free, Starter and Pro return a single-speaker transcript.
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