Paste a YouTube link and get the gist in seconds: a one-paragraph TL;DR, the key points, and chapters with clickable timestamps. Free, no account.
One paragraph that says what the video is about and where it lands, so you can decide in ten seconds whether to watch.
The claims, steps, numbers, and takeaways worth remembering, in the order the video makes them.
The video split into sections with a title and a line on each. Click a timestamp to open YouTube at that exact moment.
Get the outline of a lecture or tutorial before you watch, or review the key points before an exam instead of rewatching.
Triage interviews, talks, and explainers quickly, then jump straight to the chapter you need to quote.
Find out what a two-hour episode or recorded webinar actually covers, and which twenty minutes matter to you.
Catch up on product launches, earnings calls, and conference keynotes without sitting through all of them.
Paste the video's link into the box above and click Summarize video. In a few seconds you get a TL;DR, the key points, and chapters with timestamps. The full transcript is one click away in the Transcript tab.
Yes. There's no account, no payment, and no watermark. Each browser can summarize up to 30 videos a day, shared with the free YouTube transcript tool.
The tool reads the video's captions, including the automatic captions YouTube generates, and an AI model writes the summary from them. It doesn't watch the video, so on-screen text and visuals that are never spoken aren't included.
Yes. Choose the summary language before you click Summarize video. A Japanese or Spanish video can be summarized in English, and the other way round, in any of 15 languages.
The summary is written from captions. Videos with captions turned off, videos too new for automatic captions, music with no speech, and private or age-restricted videos can't be read. Videos longer than four hours aren't summarized.
Yes. That's what the Wave app does. It records meetings, phone calls, lectures, and in-person conversations on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, and Apple Watch, and gives you a transcript with speaker labels plus an AI summary for every recording.
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