A free AI video summarizer – timestamps on every point, long videos on a plan
- What is free?2 videos a day, each with its transcript and an AI summary for videos up to 1.5 hours. No account and no card.
- Long videos?On a paid plan there is no length limit: a three-hour podcast is summarized in hourly parts and merged into one summary.
- Can I trust it?Every point is built from the caption track and carries its timestamp, so any line can be checked against the video.
- Which language?The summary is written in the language of the video. Once it is ready, switch it to any of 14 languages – free, timecodes kept.
- What happens to my link?Only the public video behind it is read. Nothing is uploaded and no email is asked for before the summary.
- What else can it do?Answer a question about the video and find a moment you describe, each with the minute to jump to. Both are part of a paid plan.
How to summarize a YouTube video
- Copy the link of the YouTube video and paste it into the field above.
- The summary starts by itself – or with one button showing the price, on a plan. The video is summarized here, on this page.
- Read the key points in the order they were spoken, each marked with the moment it came from.
- Open the full transcript under the summary to check any point against the exact wording.
Watch less, learn the same
Most videos bury ten minutes of substance in an hour of talk. A summarizer fixes the ratio. Transcriptube first pulls the complete transcript of the video, which you can read on this page free of charge, and then condenses that transcript into a tight list of key points, each anchored to the second it happens in the video.
The result reads like good meeting notes taken by someone who never gets tired. You see the argument of the video at a glance, use a timestamp when a point deserves the full context, and skip everything that does not. For talks, tutorials, earnings calls, interviews and news breakdowns, the summary is usually all you need.
The summary and the transcript, side by side
The summary is built from the caption track, not from the title or the description, so every point traces back to something that was actually said. The transcript stays on the page underneath it, and the search box above the text finds any phrase in seconds, which means a claim in the summary can always be checked against the wording behind it.
When a summary is not the right shape for the question, ask the video directly: put a question and get an answer with the timestamp it came from, or describe a moment and get taken to it. Both run on the transcript that is already loaded, so a video never has to be fetched twice.
What it costs
2 videos a day are free, with no account, each with its transcript and an AI summary for videos up to 1.5 hours. Basic at $6.99 a month removes the length limit and adds questions, moment search, TXT, SRT and VTT downloads and batches of up to 10 videos; Pro at $14.99 a month raises the batch to 30 links, and Max at $29.99 to 50.
Our Telegram bot stays available as an optional extra for what the site does not do: translation into another language and PDF export. Everything described on this page works without it.
How do I summarize a YouTube video with AI?
Paste the link on this page and the summary starts by itself, in the language of the video. The transcript runs through an AI model and the main points of the video come back on the same page, each with the timestamp it was drawn from, usually in under a minute. There is nothing to install and no account to create.
Is this YouTube video summarizer free?
2 videos a day are free, each with its transcript and an AI summary for videos up to 1.5 hours, with no account and no card. Beyond that, Basic at $6.99 a month and Pro at $14.99 a month summarize videos of any length and add questions about a video, moment search and downloads.
Is it a video summarizer for YouTube only?
No. YouTube videos and Shorts are read from their captions; TikToks, Instagram Reels and public Facebook videos are transcribed from the audio first, and so is an audio or video file you upload – then summarized the same way.
Can this AI video summarizer handle long podcasts and lectures?
Yes. Long transcripts are split into one-hour parts, each part is summarized, and the parts are merged into one coherent summary. Three-hour podcasts and full university lectures are normal input on a paid plan; the free summary covers videos up to 1.5 hours.
What does a YouTube summary look like?
A short list of the key points in the order they appear in the video, each with a timestamp you can use to jump to that exact moment on YouTube. The full transcript stays on the page beside it, so any point can be checked against the wording it came from.
Can I summarize YouTube videos in another language?
Yes. The summary is written in the language of the video, and once it is ready one click switches it to Spanish, Korean, Japanese or any of 14 languages – free, with every timecode kept. The transcript itself stays in the original language of the video.
Can I ask questions about the video instead?
Yes. The same panel takes a question about the video and answers it from the transcript, with the timestamp the answer came from, and it can find a moment you describe rather than one you can name. Both are part of a paid plan, while the summary has a free daily allowance.
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