Paste any link
Drop a YouTube URL and Distill fetches the video and starts summarizing in seconds.
✦ AI summaries for long-form video
Watch less.
Understand more.
Distill turns any YouTube video into a thoughtfully written summary you can read in minutes. Paste a link, get the whole idea — without the filler.
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How the Brain Builds Memory
This video traces how fleeting impressions become lasting memories — and why recall rebuilds the past each time you remember.
Everything in one place
A quieter way to learn from video
Six features that work together — from the moment you paste a link to the summary you keep forever.
Article-style summaries
Flowing prose organized into sections — not bullet soup. Read like a well-edited piece, not a transcript dump.
Search & discover
Find videos in the app, follow channels, and browse summaries by topic when you have an account.
Watch alongside
The player sits above your summary so you can jump to any chapter or moment that matters.
Save & revisit
Build a private library of summaries, continue watching, and pick up where you left off.
Quiz yourself
After you summarize, take a short quiz to lock in what you learned from the video.
Three steps
From link to insight in under a minute
01
Find or paste
Search for a video in Distill, or paste a YouTube link you already have.
02
AI distills it
Distill reads the transcript and writes a clean, structured summary — fast for short videos, thorough for long ones.
03
Read, save, quiz
Read in minutes, save to your library, and test yourself with a quiz when you're done.
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Simple pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're hooked.
Guest
$0
No account required
- ✓ 3 summaries per day
- ✓ Paste YouTube links
- ✓ Stream summaries live
- — Search & channel follow
Free account
$0
Create a free account
- ✓ 10 summaries per day
- ✓ Videos up to 60 minutes
- ✓ Search & discover
- ✓ Saved library & history sync
Pro
$3.99
per month · or $29.99/year ($2.50/mo)
- ✓ Unlimited summaries
- ✓ Videos up to 2 hours
- ✓ Follow channels & feed
- ✓ Quizzes & offline saves
Get the whole idea, not the whole hour.
Download Distill and turn your watch-later pile into things you actually understand.
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