AI summaries for YouTube, Rumble, podcasts & articles. Long story short.
Paste a YouTube or Rumble video, podcast, article, or PDF. Readlis returns the key points, quotes, and a timeline you can jump straight into.
"Long story short" — the internet is too long. Readlis is what I built so I could finally keep up.
What separates founders who break $1M ARR from those who don't
- The real bottleneck isn't ideas — it's distribution. Every founder profiled built audience first.
- Charging from day one filters for real users. Free tiers mostly generate support tickets.
- Solo founders plateau near $30–50K MRR before support load forces a hire.
- Niching down beat horizontal positioning in 4 of 5 case studies — even when the niche looked small.
- Second hire should remove the founder from support, not engineering. Energy compounds faster than code.
YouTube, Rumble, podcasts, articles, and PDFs land in the same place.
Every quote is lifted from the transcript, never paraphrased or invented.
Click any timestamp to open the source at that exact second and check us.
Three steps. No installs, no extensions.
Paste the link
YouTube, podcast, article, or PDF — Readlis figures out what it's looking at.
We read it for you
Frontier AI pulls the full transcript and extracts what's worth knowing — not keyword filler.
Jump to what matters
Key points with clickable timestamps. Switch between TL;DR, bullets, or pure quotes.
Everything you've ever read. Searchable.
Every summary lives in your library. Ask follow-ups, find a quote from three weeks ago, or pull a timestamp from a podcast you can barely remember the name of.
- Your private librarySearchable by topic, speaker, or exact phrase.
- Chat with any summary"What did she say about pricing?" — get the answer with the timestamp.
- Cross-source memory"Where did I hear about Cluely?" — across every video and article you've ever pasted.
Built for long things
3-hour lectures, full podcast episodes, 10,000-word articles. No 'sorry, too long' errors.
Timestamps that actually jump
Click any timestamp — the original source opens to that exact second. Verify before you trust.
Yours, not ours
Summaries live in your account. We don't sell, share, or train on what you paste.
Readlis, inside every AI agent.
Connect Readlis to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client. Your agent can now summarize any link, search your library, and quote sources — directly inside the chat.
Free + Pro accounts can connect. Usage counts against your monthly quota.
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}Summarize any YouTube video
without leaving the page.
A Readlis card appears right under every YouTube video. One click gives you key points, verbatim quotes, and clickable timestamps — no copy-pasting URLs.
- Inline "Summarize" panel on every YouTube watch page.
- Works on articles and podcasts too — right-click any link.
- Popup button on any tab. Free. No tracking. Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc.
- 1Download & unzipClick the button and unzip
readlis-extension.zip. - 2Open extensionsGo to
chrome://extensionsin Chrome (or Edge / Brave / Arc). - 3Enable Developer modeToggle Developer mode in the top-right corner.
- 4Load unpackedClick Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder. You're done.
We'll ship a one-click Chrome Web Store install soon — for now, this developer install is the same code, signed by you.
We read the one-star reviews of every other summarizer.
Here's what people are actually annoyed about — and what we did instead.
No credits. No games. Just a monthly number you can count.
Every other summarizer bills you in "credits" that quietly cost more the longer your video is. Readlis gives you a flat number of summaries per month — of any length, from any source. That's it.
All prices in USD. Tax handled automatically.
Free
Forever- Full-length summaries — no 5-minute cap
- YouTube, podcasts, articles & PDFs
- Key points, quotes & clickable timestamps
- No credit card. Ever.
Pro
Cancel anytime- 500 full-length summaries every month
- Any length — 3-hour podcasts count as 1
- Copy as Markdown, hand off to Notion or Readwise, printable PDF report
- 17 native summary languages
- Priority processing + email support
Pro Max
Power users- 2,000 full-length summaries every month
- Everything in Pro
- Public API + Claude MCP server
- Front-of-queue priority
- Early access to new features
One summary is one summary, regardless of length.
Hit your quota? We pause. We never silently charge you.
Your 3-hour podcast summarizes on Free too.
One click in Account. Access until your period ends.
No multi-year lock-ins. No "contact sales." Yearly saves ~18%.
Straight answers.
What can I actually paste in?+
Any YouTube video, Spotify or Apple Podcasts episode, news article, blog post, Substack, or PDF link. If it has spoken or written words, Readlis can read it.
How accurate are the summaries?+
Every summary is grounded in the actual transcript or article text — the model is not allowed to answer from memory. Quotes are copied verbatim, never paraphrased, and each one carries a timestamp or passage you can click to check against the source in seconds.
What languages are supported?+
17 summary languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Hebrew. You can summarize into a different language than the source.
Does it work on paywalled articles or private videos?+
It works on anything we can reach without signing in as you. Paywalled NYT, WSJ, and unlisted YouTube videos won't work unless you paste the full text. Private podcast feeds are not supported.
Can I summarize a whole playlist or channel?+
Not yet — today you paste one video, episode, article, or document at a time. Collections let you merge several finished summaries into one synthesized brief. Playlist and channel following are on the roadmap; we'll announce them when they actually work.
How long can the source be?+
There's no length cap on any plan, Free included. A three-hour lecture and a four-minute clip both count as exactly one summary — that's the whole point of honest quotas.
Is there an API?+
Yes, on Pro Max. Same endpoints we use internally — paste a URL, get structured JSON with timestamps, bullets, quotes, and a TL;DR. Pro Max also includes the Claude/Cursor MCP server. Generate keys from your account page.
Can I cancel easily?+
One tap, no retention flow, no "are you sure" maze. Cancel mid-cycle and Pro stays active until the period ends.
Do you store or train on what I summarize?+
We store your summaries so you can find them in your library. We do not sell, share, or train models on your content. Delete any summary and it's gone within 24 hours.
Paste your first link.
Takes less time than this sentence.
5 summaries a month. No card. No nonsense.