Eightify review

Eightify does one job: it summarizes YouTube videos. Installed as a Chrome extension, it adds key ideas to the YouTube page itself, with timestamped summaries so you can jump to the part of a video that matters. It also shows an overview of top comments, which helps you judge whether a long video is worth your time, and offers transcripts and summaries or translations in more than 40 languages. Summaries can be turned into shareable articles. Eightify has iOS and Android apps, and the company says it is trusted by more than 500,000 users. The limits are scope and pricing transparency. It does not summarize PDFs, articles or your own files, and we could not load a pricing page from our location, so no price is quoted here. Readers who summarize both videos and text will get more from Wordtune, which covers YouTube and articles from $4.89 per month billed annually.

Who it is for

Heavy YouTube viewers who want key ideas before watching

Price

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Key features

• Key ideas extracted from videos directly in YouTube
• Timestamped summaries to jump to specific topics
• Top comment overview for each video
• Transcripts of videos
• Summaries and translations in 40+ languages

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Works inside YouTube through a Chrome extension
• Strength: Timestamps link summary points to the video
• Strength: Apps for iOS and Android
• Weakness: Video only: no PDF or article summaries
• Weakness: Pricing was not published on a page we could load
• Weakness: Narrower than general assistants such as ChatGPT or Gemini

Key facts

• Platforms: Chrome extension, iOS, Android
• Languages: 40+
• Users: 500,000+, per Eightify

Where it ranks

Eightify is No. 10 in our Best AI Summarizers verdict.