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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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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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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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Do Browser
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI browser-automation Chrome extension that runs web tasks, scrapes data and builds files from plain-English instructions.

Pricing
Free: $0/month
Premium: $10/month
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: $0/mo (BYO ChatGPT/Claude, 10 hosted messages)
Standard: $25/mo (hosted model)
Max: $100/mo (heavy usage)
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
  • AI text summaries of YouTube videos
  • No AI account or API key required
  • Free weekly summary quota
  • Paid quotas and unlimited subscription
  • Transcription support
  • 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
  • Natural-language control of Chrome actions
  • Web data scraping and export to CSV/files
  • Works across multiple browser tabs
  • Bring-your-own ChatGPT/Claude or hosted model
  • Content and slide generation
  • No-code, no scripting setup
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
  • Summarizing long YouTube videos
  • Saving time on video research
  • Learning key points quickly
  • Automate simple web tasks by prompt
  • Experiment with AI browser agents
  • Attempt shopping or search flows hands-free
  • Automating repetitive browser tasks
  • Extracting web data into spreadsheets
  • Summarizing pages and messages
  • Building quick personal tools and slides
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