Sift

YouTube, without the noise.

Watch YouTube on purpose. Sift replaces the endless feed with a calm, text-first YouTube. Find what you came for, understand it fast, and move on. • A calm home. Titles instead of thumbnails. No Shorts, comments or autoplay. • Know before you click. Hover a video for a short overview. • Get the gist in seconds. Clear summaries with timestamps that jump to the right moment. • Ask the video anything. Ask follow-up questions, quote part of an answer, and use web search when a question needs outside sources. • Your rules. Show thumbnails, hide the feed, or take a five-minute pass to regular YouTube. • Light and dark mode. Settings save automatically. • Instagram and X, if you want. Instagram opens on your messages. X shows a finite Following list and asks a short sum every 20 posts. Both are off until you turn them on. Free to start The text feed, search and settings need no account. AI features need Google sign-in and your consent to send the transcript and question. The free plan includes 50 summaries or answers each month. Sift Pro raises the limit. Private by design Summaries and chats stay in this browser until you clear local data. AI features need captions. Sift changes only YouTube, and Instagram or X when you turn them on. What's new in 1.2 - Sift for Instagram: messages first, no feed or Reels, and a finite Following list. - Sift for X: one calm column without counts, and a short sum every 20 posts. - Both are optional and ask for access only when you turn them on.