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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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vm0.ai
✓ verifiedPaid

Autonomous AI teammate ('Zero') that connects to Slack, Gmail, Notion, and Linear to triage inboxes, research, and draft recurring reports.

7.8K 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
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pdf.net
✓ verifiedPaid

AI PDF tool for creating, summarizing, translating and annotating documents.

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)
Pro: $20/month (20,000 credits/month, 2 concurrent runs)
Team: $200/month (120,000 credits/month, 10 concurrent runs)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

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
  • Cross-tool context gathering (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Linear, Sentry, etc.)
  • Scheduled recurring reports and digests
  • Automated inbox triage and reply drafting
  • Sandboxed per-task execution with audit trail
  • Specialized sub-agents for research, outreach, and triage
  • Bug-to-ticket automation from Slack threads
  • 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
  • Founders receiving a daily business brief
  • Sales teams automating prospect research and outreach
  • Engineering teams triaging errors and filing tickets
  • Ops teams running onboarding checklists and status reports
  • 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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