Summarify
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveTurns YouTube videos into short AI summaries you can read, search, and export instead of watching.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- 100% Free
Listed as free in the App Store; no separate paid tier or price is published on the marketing site.
Use tool ↗About Summarify
Summarify is an iOS, Mac, and Chrome extension app from Digital Tools Ltd in New Zealand that turns YouTube videos into text summaries. It hooks into the YouTube share sheet, pulls the transcript, and rewrites it as bullet points, a detailed recap, or a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, with timestamps linking back to the original moment in the video. It also exports transcripts and summaries as PDF, Markdown, or plain text, and tracks how many hours of watch time the summaries have saved. The app is listed as free on the App Store; no separate paid tier is disclosed on the marketing site.
- Platforms
- iOS · macOS · Chrome extension
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Describes the app's summary styles, share-sheet integration, and export optionssummarify.app ↗
- Copyright footer names Digital Tools Ltd, New Zealand, as the publishersummarify.app ↗
Is Summarify 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
- May 25, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar eNom, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 17, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Digital Tools Ltd, New ZealandOur research, card verified Sep 1, 2026
Pros & cons of Summarify
Good for turning long YouTube videos into a quick skim before deciding whether to watch, and the timestamp links make it easy to jump back into the source video. The catch is it depends entirely on YouTube's own captions, so videos without decent transcripts get thin summaries.
Pros
- Multiple summary formats (bullet points, detailed, chapter-based)
- Timestamps link directly back into the video
- Exports to PDF, Markdown, and plain text
- Works from the iOS/macOS share sheet without leaving YouTube
Cons
- No web app, only iOS, Mac, and a Chrome extension
- Summary quality depends on the video's existing captions
- No pricing page, so it's unclear what, if anything, sits behind a paywall
Best for
- Students screening lecture videos before watching them in full
- Researchers skimming long interviews
- Anyone who wants a written record of a video's content
Not for
- Videos without captions or with poor auto-generated transcripts
- Users who need summaries of non-YouTube video sources
Watch out: The marketing site never shows a pricing page, so budget for the possibility of in-app purchases the App Store listing doesn't spell out.
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