Quality over guesswork
We only summarize from YouTube captions
If a video has no subtitles, Distill tells you honestly — we won't fabricate a shallow summary from a title or description. We'd rather skip a video than mislead you.
✦ AI summaries for long-form video
Watch less.
Understand more.
Distill turns YouTube videos with captions into thoughtfully written summaries you can read in minutes. Built for interviews, podcasts, and educational long-form — not every clip on the internet.
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.
Paste any link
Drop a YouTube URL and Distill fetches the video and starts summarizing in seconds.
Article-style summaries
Flowing prose organized into sections — not bullet soup. Read like a well-edited piece, not a transcript dump.
Chapters & transcripts
Jump through chapter markers, read the full transcript, and switch between summary, chapters, and transcript tabs.
Watch alongside
The player sits above your summary so you can jump to any chapter or moment that matters.
Save & revisit
With a free account, build a saved library, pick up continue watching, and download summaries for offline reading.
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
Paste a link
Paste a YouTube URL on Home, or open a link shared from YouTube or Safari.
02
We read the captions
Distill fetches YouTube subtitles and writes a clean, structured summary. No captions? We'll say so — we don't guess.
03
Read, save, quiz
Read in minutes, save to your library, and test yourself with a quiz when you're done.
✦
"I used to bookmark hours of videos I never watched. Now I read the distilled idea over coffee and actually remember it."Distill reader
Simple pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're hooked.
Every plan uses the same quality standard: summaries from YouTube captions only. Pro unlocks more volume and longer videos — not a different free tier.
Guest
$0
No account required
- ✓ 1 summary per day
- ✓ Paste YouTube links
- ✓ Videos up to 30 minutes
- ✓ YouTube captions required
- — Saved library & sync
Free account
$0
Create a free account
- ✓ 3 summaries per day after email verification
- ✓ Videos up to 60 minutes
- ✓ Saved library & history sync
- ✓ Continue watching
- ✓ Offline reading for saved summaries
- — Unlimited summaries
Pro
$3.99
per month · or $29.99/year ($2.50/mo) · 7-day free trial
- ✓ Unlimited summaries
- ✓ Videos up to 2 hours
- ✓ Summaries in 40+ languages
- ✓ Chapters, transcripts & outline
- ✓ Share from YouTube or paste a link
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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