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YouTube Summary: Summarize Any Video with AI

To summarize a YouTube video, paste its link below and press Summarize video. Audexum reads the video's captions and an AI writes the key points and a one-line takeaway, in the video's own language, with the full transcript underneath to check against. Your first summary each day is free with no signup.

First summary free, no account. A free account gets 10 an hour.

How to summarize a YouTube video

  1. 01

    Copy the video link

    From the Share button or the address bar. youtube.com, youtu.be, Shorts and Live links all work.

  2. 02

    Paste it and press Summarize video

    We fetch the captions, then the AI writes the summary. It takes a few seconds.

  3. 03

    Read the key points

    Copy the summary, or scroll down to the full transcript to check any point word for word.

At a glance

Price
Free: 1 summary a day with no signup; a free account gets 10 an hour
You get
4 to 8 key points, a one-line takeaway, and the full transcript
Languages
Summary in the video's language; 160+ caption languages
Works on
Public videos, Shorts and live replays that have captions
Long videos
Summarized from about the first 25 minutes
Download
Copy the summary; transcript as TXT, SRT or VTT
Install
Nothing: no extension, runs in your browser

What a YouTube summary is good for

  • Deciding whether a 40-minute video is worth your evening before you press play.
  • Revising a lecture, course or tutorial you already watched.
  • Catching up on long podcasts, interviews and conference talks.
  • Pulling the main points out of a news, finance or product review video.
  • Sending a team the gist of a video instead of the link.

Why the summary comes with the full transcript

An AI summary is a shortcut, and shortcuts can blur a number or a name. Every summary here sits on top of the video's complete transcript, so you can search it (Ctrl+F) and read any point in the speaker's exact words before you quote it.

Frequently asked questions

How do I summarize a YouTube video?

Paste the video link on this page and press Summarize video. You get the key points and a one-line takeaway in a few seconds, with the full transcript below.

Is there a free AI that summarizes YouTube videos?

Yes, this one. One summary a day is free with no signup, and a free account gets 10 summaries an hour. No browser extension needed.

Can ChatGPT summarize a YouTube video?

ChatGPT often can't open YouTube links itself. This page fetches the transcript for you and summarizes it; you can also send the full transcript to ChatGPT or Claude with one click to ask follow-up questions.

How long can the video be?

Any length with captions. Videos longer than about 25 minutes are summarized from their first 25 minutes, and the page tells you when that happened.

What languages does it support?

Any of the 160+ languages YouTube has captions for. The summary is written in the same language as the video.

Does it work on videos without captions?

No. The summary is built from the captions YouTube already has. If you have the recording itself, transcribe it on the Transcribe a file page.

How accurate is the summary?

It follows the captions closely, but auto-generated captions can mishear names and numbers. Check anything important against the transcript under the summary.

Does it work on YouTube Shorts?

Yes. Paste the Shorts link like any other video.

Updated by the Audexum team.

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