Paste any YouTube URL. Readlis gives you key points, the best quotes verbatim, and timestamps that open the video at the exact second.
5 free summaries a month. No card.
Drop any youtube.com or youtu.be URL into Readlis — including Shorts and unlisted-but-public links. No account needed to start.
Captions are fetched in the video's own language, with a fallback path when captions are missing, then the full transcript is read end to end.
You get a TL;DR, ordered key points, verbatim quotes, and timestamps that jump to the exact second. Listen to it, save it, or ask follow-up questions.
Real examples of what Readlis returns. Every summary is generated fresh — these are samples for reference.
The turning point was narrowing to a single customer segment and raising prices; everything before that was growth without retention.
The setup reduces to five commands; the rest of the video is troubleshooting cases you can skip unless you hit them.
Yes — 5 summaries a month with no credit card. Pro is $6.99/month for 500 summaries and Pro Max is $14.99/month for 2,000. No hidden per-video charges.
In most cases yes. Readlis tries YouTube captions first, then a fallback transcript path. Videos with no speech at all can't be summarized.
Yes. Short videos are supported down to a few spoken sentences.
Three hours and beyond. Long videos are processed in sections and merged, so the ending is summarized as carefully as the intro.
Yes — the free Readlis Chrome extension adds a summarize button directly on the YouTube watch page.
Each timestamp links back to that exact second in the original video, so you can verify any point or quote in one click.