Tubed

Tubed is a Chrome extension that generates concise summaries of YouTube videos, giving viewers the key points of a video without watching it in full. Alongside summaries, it highlights notable moments, filters out ads embedded in a video's content, and provides unlimited transcriptions of video audio. A feature called "Roasts" offers a more critical, opinionated take on a video rather than a neutral summary. The extension is aimed at people who watch a lot of YouTube for research, learning, or entertainment and want to quickly decide whether a video is worth their full attention, or extract its main points without sitting through the whole runtime. Because it works as a browser extension layered on top of YouTube, it fits directly into an existing viewing habit rather than requiring a separate app or website visit. Tubed offers a 7-day free trial, after which a paid PRO plan unlocks unlimited summaries, transcriptions, and roasts for a monthly fee. It is built by Appliful. As with most AI video-summarization tools, the accuracy of a summary depends on the clarity of the video's spoken content, and Tubed's own site does not describe how it handles videos with little or no spoken narration, such as purely visual content.