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A clean, balanced summary. The version you reach for when you just want to know what the video said.
Read YouTube. In 30 seconds.
A Chrome extension that turns any long video into seven reading angles plus a built-in fact-check, a searchable transcript, and a calm reading mode.
See it in action.
Pick a video. Live result, no install.
youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ
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One transcript. Seven points of view.
Same video, seven ways to read it. Six style presets switch instantly, plus a web-grounded tool that scrutinises claims or unpacks music context.
ELI5
Plain language, short sentences, no jargon. Best for unfamiliar topics or when your brain is at 30%.
Deep dive
Longer, more structural. Sections, sub-points, the argument laid out. Best for lectures and long essays.
Actions
Strips out the talk and surfaces what to actually do. Best for tutorials, advice videos, and how-tos.
Quotes
The strongest lines, with timestamps. Best for interviews, talks, and anything you might want to cite later.
Skeptic
What's missing, what's overclaimed, what would change your mind. Best for opinion videos and pitches.
A web-grounded tool that adapts to the video.
The seventh slot isn't a style preset. It's a tool that picks one of two paths based on what you're watching. One chip, two jobs, both web-grounded.
Fact-check
· most videosPicks the most contestable claims, verifies each against authoritative sources, and shows the verdicts inline with the source link.
Song context
· music videosFor tracks and music videos, surfaces the artist, the era, what the song's about, and where it sits in their catalogue. The line you used to look up after the song ended.
The free tier is the product.
No teaser version, no nag screens. The reading layer is free forever. Pro just adds a few bits on top.
- Six reading angles (Default, ELI5, Deep dive, Actions, Quotes, Skeptic).
- Searchable transcript with click-to-jump on any line.
- Reading mode that hides the player, comments, and sidebar.
- Multi-language summaries.
- Works on every public YouTube video.
Free, capped at 20 Glances per day. Pro is €2/month billed annually (€24/yr, or €2.79/mo if you want monthly billing) and lifts the cap, adds fact-check, web-grounded context, and Markdown export.
We save your bandwidth too. Anonymously totaled.
When you're reading instead of watching, baki tells YouTube to drop the resolution. A counter in the popup shows your monthly MB saved. Once a day the extension sends one anonymous number to our backend so we can publish a public total at /transparency . No video IDs. No accounts. No IPs. Just the number.
"We see your transcripts. We see your prompts. We have to. What we do promise is exactly what we have, why, for how long, and who's looked at it."