About InsightsTube

Free tools for people who learn from video.

InsightsTube turns YouTube videos into text you can actually work with: full transcripts with clickable timestamps, downloadable subtitle files, and AI-generated summaries with key takeaways.

We built it for a simple reason: more and more knowledge lives inside long-form video: lectures, podcasts, interviews, tutorials. But video is a terrible format for finding one quote, citing a source, or deciding whether a two-hour episode is worth your time. Text solves all of that.

How it works

When you paste a link, we read the caption track that YouTube already publishes for that video, either the creator's own subtitles or YouTube's automatic captions. We never download, copy or store the video or audio itself. AI summaries are generated on demand from the transcript text using Anthropic's Claude model.

What we believe

• Useful single-purpose tools should be free and work without an account.
• Your data is not the product: we don't build profiles or sell data.
• Creators own their content, so we only work with the public caption text.

Who is behind this

InsightsTube is an independent project by the team behind SEO Check Tools, a free YouTube SEO toolkit for creators. InsightsTube is the other side of the same coin: tools for the people who watch.

Questions or ideas? Get in touch.