Paste a YouTube link and get an AI summary — a short overview, the key points and the topics — with the transcript underneath to check it. Works on videos and Shorts that have captions. Free to try, no signup.
This is our tool's actual output for a 67-second NASA video on YouTube (NASA videos are public domain). Watch the video
America is set to return to the Moon to establish a permanent Moon Base, with NASA collaborating with various companies to develop new technologies and infrastructure by 2028.
The tool reads the video's captions — the ones the creator uploaded or YouTube's automatic captions — and an AI model writes a summary from that text. So the summary describes what was actually said, and the transcript is right there to check it against. It does not watch the video, so anything that is only shown on screen and never said is not in it. If a video has no captions, there is nothing to summarize.
The example near the top of this page is a real result for a NASA video, word for word.
We checked the tools Google shows first for "youtube video summarizer" on 13 October 2026. Here is what each one says on its own page, including where ours is weaker.
| Tool | What it says it does | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| NoteGPT | Free, no login, summary length you can set or your own prompt | Its page gives different numbers for languages (40+ and 60+) and video length. |
| Decopy | Free, no login, up to 50 videos a day, key points, mind map, FAQ, timestamped highlights, TXT or PDF download | Says most videos under 90 minutes work smoothly. |
| Glasp | Free browser extension and a web box; you pick the AI model (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral); timestamped summary; transcript export | Chat with a video needs a free account. |
| TranscribeVideo.ai (this tool) | Overview, key points and topics plus the transcript as TXT, SRT and VTT; also works with TikTok and Instagram links; one combined summary for up to 10 videos on Pro | The free plan covers only the first minute of 1 video (+1 when you sign in). No mind maps or chat. |
Pick by what you need: a quick free summary of long videos, a summary in your chosen AI model, or a summary that comes with subtitle files and works across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
| Free | Pro ($13.50/month) | |
|---|---|---|
| Videos | 1 every 30 days without an account, +1 more when you sign in | Up to 250 every 30 days (up to 100 a day) |
| What the summary covers | The first minute of the video | The transcript up to about 50 minutes of speech |
| Links at once | 1 | Up to 10, with one combined summary |
| Transcript files | TXT, SRT and VTT for the first minute | TXT, SRT and VTT for the whole video |
Copy the video's link, paste it into the box at the top of this page and click Generate Transcript. In about 10 seconds you get a short overview, the key points and the topics, with the transcript underneath so you can check any point.
Yes, to try. Without an account you get 1 free video every 30 days, and signing in free gives you 1 more. On the free plan the summary covers the first minute of the video. Pro ($13.50/month) summarizes full videos, up to 10 links at once.
A short overview of what the video is about, a list of key points, and the main topics. The transcript comes with it, read from the video's captions.
Yes, on Pro. Paste up to 10 links and you get a transcript for each video plus one combined summary across all of them — not a separate summary for each.
Yes, as long as the Short has captions. Shorts of a minute or less are summarized in full on the free plan.
The transcript covers the whole video on Pro. The summary reads the first 48,000 characters of the transcript — roughly the first 50 minutes of English speech — so on longer videos it covers the opening part only. With several videos, those 48,000 characters are shared equally, so 10 long videos are each read for roughly their first 5 minutes.
Use it to see what a video covers and whether it is worth watching. It is written from the captions, so it can only be as good as they are, and it can flatten nuance. Before you quote or repeat a claim, check the line in the transcript.
Then there is nothing to summarize: the summary is written from the captions. The tool tells you so, and that try does not count against your limit.
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