Eightify vs Gistly

Eightify

A narrow tool that does one job well: decide whether an hour-long video is worth an hour before you spend it. The timestamped key points are the real feature, because they let you jump straight to the section you actually needed. The catch is that it is subscription-only for a job several free extensions and general assistants now also do.

Pros

• +Key points come with clickable timestamps, so the summary doubles as navigation
• +Handles very long recordings rather than capping at a few minutes
• +Output available in roughly 40 languages, including summarising an English video into another language
• +Works inline on the YouTube page instead of asking you to paste URLs elsewhere

Cons

• −No permanent free tier — after the trial it is pay or nothing
• −Summary quality is bounded by YouTube's auto-captions, which are poor on accented or technical speech
• −The vendor blocks automated access to its own site, so pricing and terms are hard to verify independently

Gistly

It does one job well: the summary appears next to the player rather than in another tab, and the timestamps actually move the video. The problem is commercial opacity — you cannot see what the paid tier costs without entering a checkout flow, which is a poor way to ask for a card.

Pros

• +Summary widget renders inside the YouTube page, with no copy-pasting of URLs
• +Timestamped sections link back into the video at the right moment
• +Also generates full transcripts and blog-post drafts from the same video
• +Handles more than 40 languages

Cons

• −No published price list, and the only checkout link on the site sells a different product
• −Publisher is a bare name with no address, country or company registration
• −The extension has not been updated since August 2024 (version 0.0.4)
• −Entirely dependent on YouTube transcripts, so videos without them are out of scope

Does Eightify or Gistly have a free tier?

Gistly has a free tier; Eightify has paid plans only.