Summarize Any Video with AI in Seconds

Copy the link of a public video, paste it into Scrivi, and click Transcribe. Scrivi fetches the full transcript first. Then click Summarize, and the AI reads the whole transcript and writes a structured summary. The whole process usually takes less than a minute, even for a two-hour talk.

Because the summary is built from the transcript, it reflects what was actually said in the video, not what the title or description promises. When you want to check a point, the full transcript sits right next to the summary, so you can read the exact wording behind it.

This is the same job people describe when they ask an assistant to "summarize this video" or list "the key points you would learn from watching it". The difference is that Scrivi works from the link itself, so you don't have to copy subtitles around or describe the video in your own words.

Every summary follows the same structure, which makes it easy to skim and easy to compare across videos.

Scrivi works with public videos on five platforms. Paste the link exactly as you copied it from the browser or the Share menu, and the platform is detected automatically.

Scrivi first looks for the video's caption track. When there is one, the transcript arrives in seconds and counts toward the free plan: 20 caption transcriptions a day across all platforms, plus 3 AI summaries a day, with no credit card.

Some videos have no captions at all. That is common on TikTok, Instagram, X, and Facebook, where many clips are uploaded straight from a phone. For those, Scrivi transcribes the audio with speech-to-text, which handles videos up to 3 hours long. Audio transcription is part of the $2.99 Day Pass (24 hours of Pro) and the Pro plan, because processing real audio costs money per minute. Scrivi tells you when a video needs that path instead of returning an empty result.

In practice: most YouTube videos have captions and summarize on the free plan. Short-form clips from the other platforms are more likely to need a Day Pass or Pro.

A summary answers "what is this video about". Often you need more than that, such as a specific quote, a comparison, or a document you can share. Paid plans add the tools for that.

The jobs that come up most often are about saving time and keeping what you learned.

The transcript stays in the language that was spoken in the video, so a Spanish interview comes back in Spanish. The summary language is your choice: set it in Settings to any of the 16 interface languages, or leave it on the system default. That way you can read an English summary of a German video, or the other way round.

Your transcripts and summaries are private to your account and can be deleted at any time. Scrivi is an independent tool and reads only publicly available video data from the links you paste.