Frequently Asked Questions

YouTLDR is the complete YouTube-to-insights platform that lets you get the TLDR of any video in seconds. With over 500 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute (Statista, 2024) and 2.49 billion monthly active users globally, there's simply too much content to watch. YouTLDR solves this with: (1) Instant transcripts in 125+ languages, (2) AI-powered summarization that extracts key insights, (3) Visual timelines with key beats and timestamps, (4) Content repurposing to blogs, LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads, and PowerPoint slides, and (5) Downloadable transcripts and summaries. Our AI reduces transcription time by approximately 85% compared to manual methods.

The Pro Plan ($12/month) includes up to 10 new transcripts and 10 summaries per day (fair use, resets daily), translations in 125+ languages, custom quiz generation, visual timelines with key beats, up to 10 video highlights per video, content repurposing (blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, PowerPoint), interactive chatbot Q&A, video comparison tools, and no ads.

Yes. The YouTLDR Chrome extension is free to install and brings the full toolkit inside the YouTube player. Processing videos requires an active YouTLDR Pro account at $12/month. Once installed, a red TLDR button opens a side panel with the transcript, translation, AI summary, visual timeline, and chat. The extension uses your existing YouTLDR account, so Pro features work automatically once you're signed in at you-tldr.com.

Yes. With the Pro Plan, you can download transcripts, summaries, and videos. Transcripts include timestamps for easy reference — useful for academic citations (ABNT, APA, MLA formats), meeting notes, and content creation workflows.

Yes. Upload your own videos on our Upload page to transcribe them in your language or translate them to English. This works for meeting recordings, lectures, podcasts, and any video content — not just YouTube.

Yes — YouTLDR supports over 125 languages for transcription, translation, and summarization, including Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and many more. This makes YouTLDR one of the most comprehensive multilingual video summarizers available, breaking down language barriers for YouTube's global audience.

YouTLDR uses a multi-model AI pipeline combining GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini for summarization, paired with YouTube's own caption system and independent ASR models for transcription. According to a Carnegie Mellon study, modern speech-to-text models achieve approximately 4.2% word error rate on clean English speech. YouTLDR further improves accuracy by pulling creator-corrected captions when available and using intelligent chunking that preserves context across long videos.

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Go to the Accounts page where you can cancel or upgrade your plan through the Stripe customer portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing cycle — you keep access to Pro features until then.