audio
Read any YouTube video: transcript, AI chapters, summaries and notes
Paste a YouTube link and the full transcript appears in seconds, split into readable paragraphs that follow along as the video plays. Get AI chapters and key quotes, translate it line by line, ask questions about any passage, and keep timestamped notes you can come back to.
YouTube Digest
Read, summarise and take notes on any YouTube video without watching it end to end.
Open full workspaceA flat credit cost per video, not per minute — long videos with captions cost the same as short ones. AI actions cost 10+ credits each and are only charged when you run them.
Highlights
Built for watching less and understanding more
The video becomes readable
Caption cues are stitched back into whole sentences and paragraphs, so a 40-minute talk reads like an article instead of a wall of two-second fragments. The paragraph you are hearing is highlighted as it plays, and clicking any one jumps the video there.
Chapters and quotes, not just a summary
AI breaks the video into timestamped chapters with their own summaries, and pulls out the lines actually worth keeping. Both are navigation: click a chapter or a quote to land on that second of the video.
Translation while you read
Pick a target language and read the translation alone or side by side with the original. Paragraphs are translated as you scroll, so you only pay for the part you read.
Ask about the confusing part
Select a sentence you did not follow and ask about it — an example, a definition, a counter-argument, or anything else. The answer uses the surrounding transcript as context, so it explains this video, not the topic in general.
Notes that keep their timestamp
Save any paragraph or key quote as a note with the moment it came from. Notes live in your account, filter to one video or all of them, and each keeps a link back to that exact second.
Turn it into something else
One click produces a quick or detailed summary, key takeaways, meeting notes, a blog draft, podcast show notes, a platform-specific rewrite, or short-form clip suggestions with timestamps.
How it works
From a pasted link to a video you have actually read
Paste the link
Any youtube.com or youtu.be URL. Playlist and tracking parameters are stripped automatically — only the video id is sent.
The transcript arrives
The video's own caption track is read directly, so it is ready in seconds even for long videos, at a flat cost rather than per minute.
Read, ask, summarise, keep
Follow along with the player, translate, run a summary, ask about a passage, and save the parts worth remembering as timestamped notes.
Capabilities
What it handles well right now
Common jobs
What people use YouTube Digest for
FAQ