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Scribbler
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Turns podcasts and YouTube videos into quick AI summaries and transcripts delivered by email.
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ChatGPT for YouTube
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Free Chrome extension that generates AI text summaries of YouTube videos, no AI account needed.
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Sumly AI
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AI podcast-summary service that emails personalized, goal-tailored takeaways from followed shows within about 12 hours of release.
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Pricing
Free: $0/month
Premium: $10/month
Free: $0 (7 summaries/week)
Pro: $9.90 (300 quotas)
Subscription: $14.90/mo (unlimited)
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Core features
- ✦On-demand AI summaries of podcasts and YouTube videos
- ✦Full transcripts with timestamp navigation
- ✦Chat-based Q&A against the transcribed content
- ✦Curated library of podcasts with searchable summaries
- ✦Email digest subscriptions for new summaries
- ✦AI text summaries of YouTube videos
- ✦No AI account or API key required
- ✦Free weekly summary quota
- ✦Paid quotas and unlimited subscription
- ✦Transcription support
- ✦Personalized, goal-based podcast summaries
- ✦Automatic delivery within ~12 hours of new episodes
- ✦Profile that improves recommendations over time
- ✦Contextual filtering of key insights vs. filler
- ✦Email digest delivery
- ✦Tracking of time saved versus listening in full
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Use cases
- →Catching up on a podcast episode without listening in full
- →Researching a YouTube video's key points quickly
- →Following favorite shows via email digest instead of manual listening
- →Referencing a specific moment in a long recording via timestamps
- →Summarizing long YouTube videos
- →Saving time on video research
- →Learning key points quickly
- →Busy professionals wanting key takeaways without listening to full episodes
- →Founders/operators tracking insights from business podcasts
- →Lifelong learners wanting personalized, retained knowledge from audio content
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