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Scribbler
✓ verifiedFreemium
Turns podcasts and YouTube videos into quick AI summaries and transcripts delivered by email.
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ChatGPT for YouTube
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free Chrome extension that generates AI text summaries of YouTube videos, no AI account needed.
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AI Video Summarizer
✓ verifiedFree
Free, no-signup tool that turns videos into summaries, transcripts, subtitles, chapters and mind maps in seconds.
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Scrivvy AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Summarizes YouTube videos and podcasts into short and detailed write-ups, with automatic email recaps for followed shows.
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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)
No public pricing
Plus: $9/mo (1,000 on-demand hours/month, follow up to 30 podcasts)
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
- ✦Video-to-text with structured summaries
- ✦9 summary templates for different content types
- ✦Full transcripts, subtitles and clickable chapters
- ✦Mind-map generation from summaries
- ✦100+ languages, no signup, unlimited use
- ✦Summarizes any YouTube or podcast episode from a pasted link
- ✦Automatically emails summaries when a followed show releases a new episode
- ✦Chrome and Firefox browser extension for one-click YouTube summaries
- ✦Produces both short bullet-point and longer detailed summaries
- ✦Streams the summary live while processing instead of a delayed email
- ✦Works across English, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages
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
- →Summarize lectures, meetings and podcasts
- →Generate transcripts and subtitles for creators
- →Turn long videos into study notes and mind maps
- →Deciding whether a long podcast episode is worth listening to in full
- →Keeping up with multiple podcast subscriptions without listening to everything
- →Getting key takeaways from long YouTube interviews or lectures quickly
- →Following a show for automatic recap emails on new episodes
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