Transcript & Summary for YouTube

Get the YouTube transcript in a side panel, search it, and generate AI summaries with timestamped chapters and Q&A.

Get the YouTube transcript in a side panel. Search, jump-to-timestamp, and AI summary with chapters and Q&A. Transcript & Summary for YouTube is the lightweight Chrome side panel that turns any YouTube video into searchable text, an AI-generated summary, and an instant Q&A surface. Built for students, researchers, marketers, and founders who watch hours of YouTube every week and need it as words, not minutes. 🚀 Why this is the YouTube transcript tool to keep installed If you watch lectures, podcasts, conference talks, or product demos on YouTube, the transcript IS the value. Reading is 4x faster than listening at 1x and 2x faster than 2x playback. A great youtube transcript surface compresses an hour of video into five minutes of skimming. This extension delivers the YouTube transcript in a side panel, keeps the player full-size, lets you search every word, click any line to jump to that moment, and one-click generate a clean AI summary with timestamped chapters when the video is worth your full attention. ⚡ Everything in the free plan ✓ YouTube transcript in a side panel on any captioned video, including Shorts ✓ Search inside the youtube transcript, hit matches highlight live ✓ Click any transcript line to jump the YouTube video to that timestamp ✓ Copy the full youtube transcript to clipboard with one button ✓ 3 AI summaries per day with auto-detected chapters ✓ 5 Q&A questions per day, ask anything about the video ✓ Save your last 10 youtube summaries locally ✓ Markdown export for any youtube transcript or summary ✓ Works on www.youtube.com, m.youtube.com, and Shorts 🔓 What Pro Pass unlocks ✦ Unlimited AI summaries: bulk-process podcasts, lecture series, and conference replays ✦ Unlimited Q&A: hold a long conversation with one video as your source ✦ Translate transcripts: 50+ languages so you can read a youtube transcript in your language ✦ PDF, Notion, and Obsidian export: ship summaries straight into your knowledge base ✦ Playlist bulk summarize: queue an entire YouTube playlist and get one digest ✦ AI flashcards: turn any lecture into spaced-repetition study cards ✦ Unlimited saved history with cross-device sync ✦ All 21 sibling Peak Productivity Pro extensions included in the one Pro Pass 🎯 Who it is for Students and researchers who want the youtube transcript and key takeaways without rewatching. Marketers and copywriters mining hours of podcast interviews for verbatim language. Founders and operators who need to summarize youtube videos and ship one-line takeaways into Slack. Lifelong learners who treat YouTube like a university and want a proper youtube summary on every video. 🛠️ How it works 1. Install. The toolbar icon and the new side panel are pinned. No signup. No account. 2. Open any YouTube video and click the side panel. The youtube transcript appears next to the player, never on top of it. 3. Click Summarize. In four to eight seconds you get a clean AI summary plus chapters with clickable timestamps. 4. Type a question in the Q&A tab. The AI uses the transcript to answer, with no rewatching. 5. Export to Markdown, or upgrade to push the youtube summary to PDF, Notion, or Obsidian. 💡 Real use cases → Summarize youtube videos at 3x speed, send the digest to your team in Slack instead of a 45-minute meeting link → Read a youtube transcript on the train where headphones do not work → Pull verbatim quotes for a blog post from a 90-minute YouTube interview without scrubbing → Generate youtube chapters for a lecture that has none, then jump straight to the part you need → Translate a French YouTube tutorial into English so your team can ship the same workflow → Convert a captioned YouTube playlist into a Notion database of summaries in one click (Pro) 🔒 Privacy you can verify The youtube transcript stays in your browser by default. The extension only sends transcript text to our server when you explicitly click Summarize, Ask, Translate, or Flashcards. We never log the transcript content, never sell data, and never train models on your queries. Our background script holds zero credentials, all AI calls go through a license-checked, rate-limited endpoint on peakproductivity.online. Open-permission audit: storage, sidePanel, clipboardWrite, and only youtube.com host access. 📊 Performance and benchmarks Transcript extraction averages under 600 ms on a 1-hour video. AI summary returns in 4 to 8 seconds for most videos via Claude Haiku. Q&A typically returns in 3 to 6 seconds via Claude Sonnet. The side panel adds no detectable overhead to the YouTube player and zero CPU when collapsed. 🆚 Why this over the alternatives ✓ Side panel, never an overlay on the player. Eightify and YouTube Summary with ChatGPT block half the video. ✓ No account wall. Free tier works on install. Eightify and Glasp force signup before the first summary. ✓ Bundle pricing. $9/mo unlocks this plus 21 other Peak Productivity Pro extensions. NoteGPT charges $9.99/mo for one tool. ✓ Better models. Claude Haiku for summaries, Sonnet for Q&A. Most competitors run GPT-3.5 because their margins demand it. ✓ Privacy on rails. Transcript only leaves the browser on explicit click, never in the background. 🛡️ Security Manifest V3, no remote code, all JavaScript bundled locally. The build pipeline blocks any cdn.tailwindcss, unpkg, or external script import. License verification cached 24h to survive server outages. No tabs permission, no activeTab, no webRequest, no broad host_permissions. Only youtube.com and an optional peakproductivity.online for the Pro license endpoint. ❓ Frequently asked questions Q: Does it work on YouTube Shorts? A: Yes. Open a Short, click the side panel, and the youtube transcript appears for any Short with captions. Q: What about videos with no captions? A: The side panel shows a clean empty state. We do not use Whisper or any ASR on the client because that is slow, expensive, and a privacy regression. Pick a captioned video. Q: Are my prompts and summaries ever shared? A: No. Transcripts and questions are sent to our server only when you click an AI button, never stored long-term, never sold, and never used to train models. Q: Is the free tier really free? A: Yes. Free tier works without an account, forever. The daily caps are 3 AI summaries and 5 Q&A questions, plus unlimited search, transcript view, and Markdown export. Q: How do I get unlimited summaries and Q&A? A: Upgrade to the Peak Productivity Pro Pass, $9/mo or $79/yr. The Pro Pass also unlocks 21 sibling extensions, so the math beats any single-purpose competitor. Q: Can I export the youtube summary to Notion? A: Yes, with Pro. Free tier exports Markdown. 🚀 Get started Install, pin the icon, open any captioned YouTube video, and click the side panel. The youtube transcript is on your screen in under a second. Summarize when the video is worth it. Ask questions when reading is faster. Ship the summary into your knowledge base. Move on.