By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026
Paste a link and get the gist plus the full transcript. No account, no extension, no sign-up — and it still works when the video has no subtitles at all.
Almost every YouTube summarizer is a browser extension that reads the subtitle track. That is quick when a subtitle track exists — and it is why they all fail on the same videos: a livestream nobody captioned, a lecture uploaded without subtitles, a video in a language YouTube did not auto-caption.
This does the easy path too: if the video already has subtitles, they are fetched in a second or two and cost nothing. When there are none, the audio is transcribed with Whisper on our own hardware and then summarised. Slower, but it comes back with an answer instead of an error.
The summary is written by an open-source language model running on our own machine, not sent to anyone else's API. You get a short paragraph of what the video is about, the handful of points that actually matter, and who it is for.
A summary is a starting point, not the whole thing. Every run also hands you the complete transcript as a TXT and as subtitles in SRT, so you can search it, quote from it exactly, paste it into your notes or feed it to something else.
There is no account, no e-mail and nothing to install, and the transcript and the summary are both deleted from our server automatically. Nothing is stored, shared or used to train anything.
It reads what is said, not what is shown. A silent screen recording, a music video or a wordless demo has nothing for it to work with, and the summary will be thin or empty — that is not a bug, there is simply no speech in the file.
It also will not invent what it did not hear. If a video mumbles through the important part, the summary says less rather than filling the gap with something plausible. That is deliberate.
Very long recordings are capped for the free summary. Podcasts and lectures of a couple of hours are fine; if you regularly need structured minutes out of multi-hour recordings — decisions, action items, who agreed to what, exported as a Word file — that is what the meeting notes are for.
Yes. No account, no e-mail, no sign-up and no card. There is a limit on how many summaries one connection can run in an hour, purely so the queue stays usable for everyone.
Yes, and that is the main reason to use it over a browser extension. Extensions read the subtitle track and fail when there is not one. Here the audio is transcribed with Whisper on our own hardware first, then summarised.
No. It is a web page — paste the link and read the answer. It works the same on a phone.
No. The summary is written by an open-source model running on our own machine, so your link and the transcript are not handed to a third-party API.
Up to a couple of hours for the free summary. Beyond that you will be told, and the paid meeting notes handle the really long recordings.
Yes, every run gives you the full transcript as a TXT file and as SRT subtitles, alongside the summary.
Yes for both, as long as there is speech in them. A finished livestream is treated like any other video.
Nothing is kept. The transcript and the summary are deleted from our server automatically, and neither is shared or used for training.