Highlightly - Watch YouTube Video Highlights: Podcasts, Lectures & More

Highlightly adds a "Highlights" button to YouTube's own player. Click it, and our AI works out which parts of the video actually matter — then plays just those, one after another, skipping everything in between. You stay on the original video in the normal YouTube player, with nothing re-hosted or re-encoded. Typically 40-60% less time for the same substance. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR - University lectures and course videos — and fast revision before an exam - Podcasts and long-form interviews - Conference talks, keynotes and webinars - News analysis, geopolitics and current-affairs commentary - Tutorials, how-to walkthroughs and code-alongs - Earnings calls, panels, AMAs and product launches - Documentaries and review videos Anything long-form where the signal is real but spread thin. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open a YouTube video. 2. Click the "Highlights" button in the player controls. 3. Highlights start streaming in within seconds — you don't wait for the whole video to finish processing. 4. Markers appear on the progress bar. Playback skips between them automatically. 5. Switch back to the full video at any time, at any point. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - You still watch the video. No summary to read, no clips to download. - Runs inside YouTube's own player. Speed, captions, quality and fullscreen all work as normal. - Highlights stream in progressively, so playback starts before analysis finishes. - Seek anywhere yourself and it re-syncs around you instead of fighting you. ADVERTISING Highlightly is not an ad blocker and does not interfere with advertising in any way. While a YouTube ad is playing, the extension suspends its own playback logic entirely and resumes only once the ad has finished. Ads play exactly as they normally would. PRIVACY Highlightly sends the URL of the video you're watching to our own API in order to analyze it. We never download or store the video or its audio, and we don't store full transcripts. We don't sell your data. Full policy: https://highlightly.co/privacy A free account unlocks longer videos and more of them each day.