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Scribbler
✓ verifiedFreemium
Turns podcasts and YouTube videos into quick AI summaries and transcripts delivered by email.
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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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BrowseGPT
✓ verifiedFree
Experimental Chrome extension that uses GPT-3 to attempt web tasks from plain-language instructions; handy but admittedly unreliable.
26K 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
Free: $0/month
Premium: $10/month
Plus: $9/mo (1,000 on-demand hours/month, follow up to 30 podcasts)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
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
- ✦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
- ✦Natural-language browser task automation
- ✦Powered by OpenAI GPT-3
- ✦Issues click, type and navigate actions
- ✦Explains the reasoning behind each step
- ✦Free Chrome extension
- ✦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
- →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
- →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
- →Automate simple web tasks by prompt
- →Experiment with AI browser agents
- →Attempt shopping or search flows hands-free
- →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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