BriefTube AI watches the videos you don't have time for — and hands you the key ideas, action items and quotes in the format your brain actually likes.
The videos pile up. The good ones — the conferences, the long-form interviews, the conference talks worth their hour — get buried. BriefTube reads them for you.
Connect your YouTube account once. Pick which channels matter. Every new upload arrives in your feed already chewed — with the takeaways, the timestamps and the receipts.
The headline answer first — then the TL;DR, the four key ideas, the audience, and the moments worth jumping to. Optimized for skimming on a phone in a kitchen.
BriefTube reads 300 top comments and tells you the sentiment, the recurring themes, the debated points, and the questions other viewers actually asked. The conversation, distilled.
Every summary is anchored to real timecodes from the transcript. Tap a Key Moment and the YouTube app opens at the second it happened. No more scrubbing the bar.
Q&A on top of the transcript — with or without web context. Cited answers, in your language.
No browser extension. No copy-pasting URLs. Just sign in, pick channels and forget about it.
Read-only OAuth — we can see your channels, we can't change anything.
Tick the ones you actually care about. Add single videos by URL too.
New videos appear summarized in your feed. Pick a format, read in your language, move on.
Same video, eight angles. Each format is a different prompt tuned to a different way of reading.
A polished long-read with intro, sections and a takeaway.
Numbered, punchy tweets ready to copy-paste.
Front/back Q&A — built for spaced repetition.
Short paragraphs, bolded keywords, no walls of text.
6–10 best quotes with timestamps and context.
Subject line, preview, body — drop it into Substack.
Concrete steps you can act on after watching.
"Make interview questions." "Extract all numbers." Anything.
Every summary, every format, every comment insight — translatable into 12 languages, on tap. Cached after the first translation, so you never pay twice.
Credits — not seats, not minutes. A basic summary is free. Deep formats are 2 ⚡. Cancel anytime.
No. We are a triage layer on top of YouTube. The videos still live on YouTube; the tap-to-watch button is a tap away. BriefTube just helps you decide what's worth your hour.
We request only the youtube.readonly OAuth scope. We can see your subscribed channels and public video metadata. We cannot like, comment, subscribe, post, or change anything on your behalf.
We pull the timed transcript YouTube provides, then run it through a chain of LLMs (GPT-4o-mini, DeepSeek and Gemini Flash). Timestamps are extracted from the transcript — they're real, not hallucinated.
Deep AI processing has real per-video cost, and basic summaries don't. Credits let you pay for what you actually use — most people never hit their monthly cap.
Yes. Paste a YouTube URL on the Sources screen and BriefTube will summarize it. OAuth is only required for automatic tracking of new uploads.
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi. Summaries are generated in the video's original language and translated on demand.
The free tier is enough to find out if BriefTube clicks for you. No card, no email gimmicks — just install and connect.
