Free tools/Transcript to Markdown

Turn a session transcript into readable Markdown.

Drop a Claude Code or Codex .jsonl session and get clean Markdown: speakers as headings, code fenced, tool calls kept or dropped as you choose.

Runs in your browser. Whatever you drop or paste here is read by JavaScript in this tab and never sent anywhere. There is no upload endpoint on this site to send it to.

Drag a file here, or paste below.

Both tools keep sessions in hidden directories. Run open ~/.claude/projects or open ~/.codex/sessions in a terminal to get a Finder window you can drag a file straight out of.

Common questions

Which transcripts does this read?

The JSONL sessions written by Claude Code and Codex. It looks for the message shapes those tools use and ignores lines that carry no conversation — summaries, metadata, internal bookkeeping — rather than rendering them as empty sections.

Where do I find my session file?

Claude Code keeps one per session under ~/.claude/projects/, in a directory named after the project's path with the slashes rewritten. Codex keeps its own under ~/.codex/sessions/, filed by date. Both directories are hidden, so `open ~/.claude/projects` from a terminal is the quickest way to get a Finder window you can drag from.

Why would I include tool calls?

Include them when the record is for you — the commands and file edits are usually the part worth keeping. Leave them out when the record is for someone else, since a transcript with every tool call inlined is mostly machinery, and the conversation is easier to follow without it.

Can I convert a whole folder at once?

Not here. This page converts one session at a time, because that is what a browser can be handed.

More free tools

This page converts the one session you drop on it. It cannot see the rest of your Mac — a browser is not allowed to, which is the whole reason this page is safe to use. Inventory is the desktop app that does: it indexes every conversation Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, Codex, Kiro and Antigravity have had on your machine and searches all of them at once, privately, from ⌘⇧Space. $19.99 once, free for 7 days, no account.