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SMRY
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI article reader that summarizes, reads aloud, and lets you chat with web articles or YouTube videos, with highlighting and export tools.
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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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Scribbler
✓ verifiedFreemium
Turns podcasts and YouTube videos into quick AI summaries and transcripts delivered by email.
Pricing
Pro: $3/month (billed $36/year, unlimited summaries, 10 voices, 20 daily premium audio listens)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free: $0/month
Premium: $10/month
Core features
- ✦AI-generated article summaries in seconds
- ✦Text-to-speech reading with up to 10 natural AI voices
- ✦YouTube video transcript reading and summarization
- ✦In-context AI chat that answers questions about the article
- ✦Five-color highlighting and annotation with export to Notion/Obsidian/Markdown
- ✦Customizable ad-free reader mode with adjustable fonts and themes
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Readers wanting a clean, ad-free article reading experience
- →Commuters listening to articles via AI narration
- →Researchers chatting with or summarizing long-form content
- →Note-takers exporting highlights to their knowledge tools
- →Summarize lectures, meetings and podcasts
- →Generate transcripts and subtitles for creators
- →Turn long videos into study notes and mind maps
- →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
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