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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.
7.2K saves
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ChatGPT for YouTube
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free Chrome extension that generates AI text summaries of YouTube videos, no AI account needed.
11K saves
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Sumly AI
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI podcast-summary service that emails personalized, goal-tailored takeaways from followed shows within about 12 hours of release.
5.9K saves
Pricing
Plus: $9/mo (1,000 on-demand hours/month, follow up to 30 podcasts)
Free: $0 (7 summaries/week)
Pro: $9.90 (300 quotas)
Subscription: $14.90/mo (unlimited)
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →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
- →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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