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Sum up a YouTube video in 30 seconds

Paste a YouTube link and get a short TL;DR and the key takeaways, ready to copy

Paste a YouTube link

We listen to the video and sum it up in a few lines

Read it in 30 seconds

A short TL;DR and the key takeaways, so you know what the video says before you spend an hour on it

Copy it anywhere

One click copies the summary as plain text with a link to the video, for notes, chats or a post

Free, no sign-up

No account needed. Works for public English videos from 2 minutes to 4 hours long

How it works

  1. 1

    Paste the link

    Copy the link of a public YouTube video, 2 minutes or longer, and paste it in. No need to download the video

  2. 2

    Get the summary

    We listen to the video and write a short TL;DR and the key takeaways, so you get the gist in 30 seconds

  3. 3

    Copy it anywhere

    One click copies the summary as plain text with a link to the video. Paste it into your notes, a chat or a post

Free YouTube video summarizer

Questions people ask

Public YouTube videos with speech, from 2 minutes to 4 hours long. Talks, podcasts, interviews, lectures and tutorials work best. A music video without talking has nothing to sum up.
A one-line title, a TL;DR of two or three sentences, and three to seven key takeaways. Copy it with one click as plain text, with a link to the video at the end.
English only for now.
Usually under a minute for a short video and a few minutes for a long talk or podcast.
Yes, with our free YouTube timestamps generator: paste the same link and get chapters with timestamps for the description.
Yes. No account needed.

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