Hook Finder
Upload a recording or paste a link and let AI surface the lines that grab attention – your strongest hooks, with timestamps.
Accepts an audio or video recording, or a link · returns your strongest hook candidates with timestamps, plus the full transcript.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I find the strongest hook in my recording?
To find your strongest hook, upload a recording or paste a link into Pepys – it transcribes the audio, then AI surfaces the most scroll-stopping lines and openers with timestamps, grounded in a full transcript, in 99+ languages. Lift the best line straight into your short or post. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
How hook finder works
Upload audio or paste a link
Drop in a recording or paste a link – a podcast, talk, interview, or raw video footage.
Let AI find the hooks
Pepys transcribes the audio, then surfaces the most attention-grabbing lines and openers with timestamps.
Lift and export
Copy the best hook, jump to the moment it was said, then export the transcript to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, or PDF.
The first three seconds decide whether anyone watches the rest. Buried inside a long recording there's almost always a line that stops the scroll – the sharp claim, the surprising number, the contrarian take – but finding it means relistening to the whole thing. Pepys transcribes your recording, then AI reads it for you and surfaces the strongest hook candidates with the timestamp of each one.
Every suggestion is grounded in a full, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript, so you can click straight to the moment, hear how it lands, and lift the exact words into your short, reel, or post. It works across 99+ languages, we never train on your audio, and you pay only for the minutes you transcribe – credits never expire.
Clean paragraphs. No more um's and ah's.
The left is what Pepys hands back – logical paragraphs with the filler stripped out, punctuated and readable. The right is the raw, one-line-per-segment dump most transcribers leave you with.
um so yeah everyone keeps telling you to like lead with your best line right but uh honestly if you give away the whole answer in the first second you know there's basically no reason for anyone to keep watching so the hook isn't kind of the smartest thing you say it's like a loop you open that they need to close and um that's the part that actually keeps people around
RawAI surfaces the most scroll-stopping lines instead of you relistening
Every hook comes with a timestamp – click straight to the moment
Grounded in a full transcript, so you can lift the exact words verbatim
99+ languages, auto-detected · we never train on your audio · credits never expire
Works with the platforms you live in.
Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts – or drop in any audio or video file. We transcribe it once, then you export it however your workflow needs.
- YouTube
- TikTok
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- or any file
Export to any format
- TXT
- Markdown
- DOCX
- SRT
- VTT
- JSON
Timestamps, speaker labels, and subtitle timing carry through to every export.
Hook finder – questions, answered
How do I find the strongest hook in my recording?
Upload your audio or video, or paste a link. Pepys transcribes it and AI surfaces the most attention-grabbing lines with timestamps – your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
What makes a line a good hook?
Pepys looks for lines that open a loop or stop the scroll – a bold claim, a surprising stat, a question, or a contrarian take – and surfaces them so you can judge which fits your clip.
Can I jump to where a hook was said?
Yes. Every suggestion is tied to a timestamp in the full transcript, so you can click straight to the moment and hear exactly how it sounds.
Does it work for any language?
Yes – Pepys auto-detects 99+ languages and works in the spoken language, and you can translate the transcript afterwards if you need to.
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