Paste a YouTube link. Get the notes.

SummaryTube reads the video's transcript and writes structured notes, with steps, numbers and quotes kept exact. Then ask it anything about the video.

5 videos a month, free.

Preview of SummaryTube: notes for a sourdough baking video on the left, and a chat answering a question about proofing time on the right.

Made for

The videos you'd normally take notes on

If you've ever paused a video to write something down, it's a good fit.

52:18

Lectures

Intro to Linear Algebra — Lecture 3

Definitions, worked examples and every formula on the board.

31:42

Tutorials

Build a REST API in 30 Minutes

The exact steps, commands and settings, in order.

1:24:09

Podcasts & interviews

Founders on Their First 100 Customers

Each question, with who said what.

58:30

Webinars

Q3 Market Outlook: Sectors to Watch

Picks, price targets and the reasoning behind them.

How it works

Three steps, about a minute

  1. 1

    Paste a YouTube link

    Any video with captions. Long ones are fine: lectures, podcasts and webinars are where it saves the most time.

  2. 2

    Pick a note style

    General works for most videos. Financial Webinar pulls out stock picks, price targets and the market outlook.

  3. 3

    Read the notes, then ask

    Notes appear as they're written. Ask follow-up questions and get answers taken from the transcript.

The notes

Good enough to skip the rewatch

Notes meant to replace the video, not just summarise it. Videos in other languages come out in English.

Shaped like the video

Headings follow the video's own sections, so a recipe reads like a recipe and a lecture reads like a lecture.

Details kept exact

Numbers, names, steps and quotes come through as spoken. Nothing rounded, nothing made up.

Answers from what was said

Chat looks up the relevant parts of the transcript before answering, so you can skip scrubbing through the timeline.

Tell it what to look for

Add a note like “focus on the tools mentioned” and it shapes the notes around it.

Try it on the next video you were going to watch.

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