We watch a lot. We remember little.
There is a lifetime of brilliant talks, tutorials, interviews and breakdowns on YouTube. The problem was never the quality of the ideas. It is the time. DistillTube exists to give you the ideas without the hours.
Every day you save videos you mean to watch later. Later rarely comes. And when it does, you scrub through fifteen minutes of intro to find the one insight you were after. DistillTube turns that whole ritual on its head: paste a link, and within seconds you have the gist, the structure, the standout quotes, and a way to ask the video anything.
Built for people who watch to learn
Students drowning in lecture recordings. Founders keeping up with their field. Curious people with a hundred open tabs. If you treat YouTube as a library rather than a feed, DistillTube is for you.
What we believe
Your time is the scarce resource. A good summary is not about cutting corners. It is about respecting that you have better things to do than rewind.
Faithful, not fabricated. Everything DistillTube tells you comes straight from the video itself. Quotes are verbatim. Answers in the chat are grounded in what was really said.
It should feel calm. No noise, no clutter, no dark patterns. Drop a link, get something genuinely useful back, move on with your day.
Backed by what you can play. Unlike a generic AI chat that speaks from a pool of unknown sources, every claim you read on DistillTube traces back to a specific video. Tap a timestamp, watch the moment, see for yourself.
Skim first, then watch deep. The point is not to never watch a video again. It is to stop dipping in and out, blindly. Read the essence in minutes, sift through more videos than you ever could before, then commit your full attention to the ones that genuinely earn it.
Not just shorter, on your terms
The same video can read in very different ways. Pick a quick gist, a thorough deep dive, plain language for an unfamiliar topic, or one of the perspective styles: Counterpoint reads the video against the grain and challenges every major claim, Champion does the opposite and steel-mans its case. You can save your own styles too, so a summary matches not just your time but your purpose.
From watching to working with videos
DistillTube has grown beyond single-video summaries. Bundle several videos on a topic into a project and merge them into one cohesive, deduplicated document with every claim tagged by its source. Search YouTube by what you want to learn, not just by keyword, and add the best match in one click. Listen to any summary as a spoken audio briefing on a walk. Or ask the chat anything, about one video or all your videos from a channel at once.
How it stays effortless
Follow the channels you care about and DistillTube quietly does the watching for you, summarizing new uploads as they appear and sending you a digest on your schedule. You stay current without living in the subscriptions tab.