
What it is
This is an IOS app I made with Xcode and Swift.
It lets you copy the URL link of any social media post and transcribe it.
You can transcribe multiple videos at a time.
You can also edit the transcription and take notes on it in markdown format.
Its a simple UI/UX:
- See a feed of all your transcripts
- See the metadata of the post at a glance
- Change the title of a transcript so its easier to find
- Select and copy multiple transcripts at once to your clipboard

You can also edit the transcript with obsidian markdown syntax

There’s a text editor inside the app with a custom Obsidian keyboard.
Instead of watching the videos at 2x speed, I can sit and read it + annotate the parts that stand out to me.
You can bold, highlight, add wiki-links, and line spacing, etc.
I also find that when I manually format or annotate the transcript, I retain the information better.
Then I paste it into my obsidian vault, perfectly formatted with the metadata.

Once it’s in obsidian, now I can start linking the transcript ideas to my other notes: Journal entries, books, videos, articles, etc.
The goal is to learn from social media the same way I learn from books.
This lets me connect the dots of decentralized creators knowledge to my own garden of knowledge.
Why I made it
I’ve been using Obsidian, Readwise, Roam Research, and Notion for 4+ years now.
The whole point of personal knowledge management (PKM tools) is to be more intentional with how we consume and interact with information.. And so that your knowledge can compound and turn into something you can express and share with the world.
With ReSerch, I just paste a URL from TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram and get a full transcript I can interact with.
YouTube pulls auto-captions so it’s instant.
TikTok and Instagram go through WhisperKit, which runs entirely on your phone.
No cloud. No subscription. Nothing leaves your device.
I also made this because I use social media to learn things.
It’s not perfect. Misinformation and fake news is everywhere.
But it’s also really hard to trust major publications anymore.
Censorship, propaganda, narrative control.
I’d rather pull from multiple sources and make up my own mind about different topics. Especially international sources.
Some of the best journalism I’ve encountered comes from independent creators and publications in other countries, people who are actually living through the stories they’re sharing.
A person on the ground in their city with their phone is going to give you a different picture than any network owned by billionaires will.
If you want to try it out yourself, you can download the repository for free here.