Rundown
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveMonitors YouTube channels in your niche and emails a daily brief of trending topics and summarized new uploads.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $3.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free tier gives 15 summaries/month; Plus is $3.99/month ($47.99/year) for 150 summaries and a daily email brief, Max is $7.99/month for 500.
Use tool ↗About Rundown
Rundown watches a list of YouTube channels, generates a timestamped summary of every new upload, and sends a daily email brief flagging what's trending across those channels and where competitors are converging on the same topic. It is built by a company called Tessera. Unlike a single-video summarizer, it's designed for tracking an entire niche over time rather than answering questions about one video. It works entirely through the web and email; the vendor is explicit that it is not a browser extension.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Rundown monitors YouTube channels, summarizes every upload, and sends a daily trend brief; built by Tesseragetrundown.xyz ↗
- Pricing is free (15 summaries/month), Plus $3.99/month, and Max $7.99/monthgetrundown.xyz ↗
Is Rundown legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Apr 5, 2026Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Jan 5, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- TesseraOur research, card verified Sep 1, 2026
Pros & cons of Rundown
Built for tracking a niche over time rather than summarizing one video on demand, which is a different job than most YouTube-summary tools do. The daily email brief and channel-convergence flagging are the actual product; per-video summaries are just the raw material feeding it.
Pros
- tracks unlimited channels even on the free tier
- the daily brief surfaces trends and overlap across channels, not just single summaries
- generates timestamped chapters for every monitored upload
Cons
- summary volume is capped by plan, so heavy monitoring needs a paid tier
- no browser extension, so it's a separate destination rather than inline with YouTube
- company details beyond the name Tessera are unconfirmed
Best for
- creators tracking what competitor channels in their niche are publishing
- marketers wanting a daily digest of trending topics in a specific space
- researchers monitoring many channels without watching every video
Not for
- someone who just needs one video summarized right now
- anyone who wants a browser extension rather than an email-based workflow
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