TikTok's Favorites folder is a black hole. No search, no transcripts, gone the moment the creator deletes the video. MarkIt saves the caption, the transcript, the on-screen text, and the original video - all from one forward to a chat.
Forward any TikTok to MarkIt's WhatsApp or Telegram bot from the TikTok share sheet. The bot saves the caption, extracts the on-screen text via OCR, transcribes the audio, and files it under the right category in your library in about 5 seconds. Search later with natural language - 'that pasta TikTok with the lemon' - and find it instantly. Free up to 40 saves per month.
People save TikToks for the same reason they screenshot Instagram posts and forward articles to themselves on WhatsApp: useful things scroll past too fast to memorize, and 'I'll come back to it' needs a place to live. Recipes, workouts, home tips, product hacks, language-learning clips, finance explainers, travel routes - TikTok has become a real reference library for a lot of people.
The problem is the storage layer. TikTok's native Favorites is a private folder, one device deep, with no transcript, no OCR on text appearing on screen, no AI categorization, no search beyond a basic title match, and no cross-device export. If the creator deletes the video or makes their account private, the Favorite still appears in your folder but the video is dead.
So most people end up with the same multi-tool mess: some saves in Favorites, some screenshots of TikToks in their camera roll, some links forwarded to themselves on WhatsApp, some that they tried to download with a screen recorder. None of it is searchable. None of it is one place.
Favorites is the right idea executed for a 2018 reference need. It does not survive contact with how people actually use TikTok in 2026.
Tap Share on the TikTok, choose WhatsApp or Telegram, and send it to the MarkIt bot you set up in your account. Or paste the TikTok URL into the web dashboard. Both work. Bot setup takes about 30 seconds the first time.
Within 5 seconds the bot pulls the caption, the creator handle, the hashtags, the on-screen text via OCR, and an audio transcript. AI picks one of your 12 categories (Recipes, Finance, Travel, etc.) and tags by topic. The original video stays linked and proxied so it survives even if the creator deletes it from TikTok.
Find that TikTok later with natural language - 'the pasta one with lemon and parmesan' returns the right save even if the caption said neither. Or ask the bot inside WhatsApp itself: 'find that TikTok Sara sent me about Berlin coffee shops.' No app switch.
TikToks are dense - video, audio, caption, on-screen text overlays, hashtags, creator handle - and the search experience needs all of it. Here is what lands in your library:
The creator-written description, including hashtags and mentions, fully searchable.
Spoken-word content transcribed so the actual instructions or commentary become searchable text.
Text overlays that TikTok creators add to every other frame - recipe steps, captions, ingredient lists - extracted and searchable.
So you can filter your library by creator and refind everything you ever saved from one account.
Both the creator-set hashtags and AI-derived topic tags.
Preserved with a thumbnail. If the creator deletes the original, the MarkIt-proxied thumbnail and your transcript still survive.
Your saves are yours. MarkIt does not train AI on your library, does not sell data, and does not share what you save with other users. OCR + transcription run server-side via OpenAI under their 30-day-retention API terms. Export your full library as JSON anytime by emailing [email protected].
MarkIt preserves the original URL plus a proxied thumbnail, the caption, the transcript, the OCR text, and metadata - so the searchable content survives even if the creator deletes the video. We do not host or re-upload the video file itself.
No. You are using TikTok's standard Share button to send the link to your own chat with the MarkIt bot. MarkIt never logs into TikTok, never scrapes, and never automates TikTok itself. It is the same gesture as sending a TikTok to a friend.
Your saved transcript, OCR text, caption, and thumbnail survive in your MarkIt library. The original video link will lead to a 'video unavailable' page on TikTok, but the searchable content of the save remains. This is one of the main reasons people use MarkIt for TikTok over the native Favorites.
For a typical 30-60 second TikTok, transcription completes in about 5-8 seconds. Longer videos (up to 10 minutes) take 15-30 seconds. The bot sends a confirmation as soon as the save is processed.
Yes. MarkIt's OCR and transcription handle English and Hebrew today out of the box, with multilingual support on the roadmap. Caption text in any language is preserved as-is and searchable.
Forty captures per month across every source (TikTok, Instagram, links, screenshots, etc.). All AI features (OCR, transcription, semantic search, auto-categorization) are included in the free tier. Pro tier with higher monthly limits is in early access.
Today the workflow is: open your Favorites folder, share each TikTok individually to the MarkIt bot. A bulk-import flow is on the roadmap. For now, the bot handles a steady stream of forwards without rate-limiting on your side.
MarkIt is one library across every source you save from. The bot understands TikTok and these:
Free up to 40 captures a month. Includes the WhatsApp bot, Telegram bot, automatic transcription, OCR, AI categorization, and semantic search. No credit card.
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