YouTube transcript and timestamped notes in one click. No captions needed. 21 languages. Lectures, podcasts, tutorials.
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About Tildew: Free YouTube Summary & Transcript
You just sat through a two hour lecture. Quick, what was said at minute 47? ๐
Yeah. Nobody remembers. And nobody is going to rewatch it.
Tildew fixes that. Open any YouTube video, open the side panel, and get a full transcript plus clean, typed, timestamped notes you can actually revise from.
Too long? Didn't watch? Tildew. ๐ฌ
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๐ง IT LISTENS. IT DOES NOT SCRAPE CAPTIONS.
This is the part that matters.
Almost every other transcript tool just copies YouTube's caption file. No captions, no transcript. Auto captions in Hindi or Urdu? You get word salad.
Tildew listens to the actual audio, the way a person would. Which means:
โ Videos with captions turned off still work
โ Hindi, Hinglish and Urdu speech comes out clean
โ Accents and background music do not break it
โ Speakers get told apart in interviews and podcasts
If a tool has ever handed you an empty transcript, this is why it happened, and this is the fix.
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๐ NOTES THAT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT
A recipe video and a physics lecture should not produce the same notes. Tildew recognises 19 types of video and writes accordingly.
๐ Lecture โ definitions, formulas, worked examples, exam tips
๐ง Tutorial โ numbered steps, exact settings, the gotchas people skip
๐๏ธ Podcast โ who said what, and the actual argument
โญ Review โ pros, cons, verdict, price
๐ณ Cooking โ ingredients, quantities, method
๐ฐ Finance โ numbers, claims, risks
๐ฐ News โ what happened, who said it, what is disputed
๐ป Tech โ specs in plain words, who should buy it, how it compares
โฆand 11 more types.
You can also just pick the type yourself if Tildew guesses wrong.
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โฑ๏ธ EVERY TIMESTAMP IS A DOOR
See something in your notes you want to hear for yourself? Tap the timestamp. The video jumps straight there.
No scrubbing. No dragging the bar back and forth hunting for the bit you half remember. ๐ฏ
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๐ TWENTY LANGUAGES
Watch in one language, take notes in another.
๐ฎ๐ณ English, Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu
๐ Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai
Watch an English lecture, revise in Tamil. Watch a Hindi explainer, get English notes for your assignment. Your call. ๐
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๐๏ธ THREE DEPTHS
โก Quick, when you just need the gist before deciding whether to watch (free)
๐ Detailed, for proper study notes (free)
๐ฌ Deep, when you need to keep almost everything (paid plans)
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โณ BUILT FOR LONG VIDEOS
Free accounts summarise videos up to 60 minutes. Paid plans go up to 4 hours: full lectures, full podcasts, full conference talks, full match analysis.
The longer and denser the video, the more Tildew saves you. A 12 minute video you can just watch. A three hour lecture is what this is for. ๐ช
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๐ TAKE IT WITH YOU
Copy the notes or the full transcript in one click. Export as Markdown, as a plain text file, or as a PDF you can print, hand in or keep. ๐
The transcript lives in its own tab and stays searchable, so you can hunt for a phrase and jump to the moment it was said. ๐
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๐๏ธ YOUR NOTES DO NOT DISAPPEAR
Everything you summarise is saved to your library at tildew.com. Same Google account, nothing to set up. ๐
Close the tab, restart the browser, switch laptops. It is all still there.
๐ฑ Read your notes on your phone on the way to class
๐ Search your library by title or channel
๐๏ธ Filter by type, sort, and star the ones you keep coming back to
๐ Flip between the depths and languages you generated for a video
โฑ๏ธ Tap any timestamp and the original video opens at that second
๐ Print or save as PDF from the library too
๐๏ธ Remove a video whenever you like
The notes you made stay yours for as long as you have an account.
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๐ฅ WHO ACTUALLY USES THIS
๐ Students living inside recorded lectures and coaching classes
๐ฎ๐ณ Anyone studying from Hindi, Hinglish or Urdu YouTube
โ๏ธ Researchers and journalists pulling quotes from long interviews
๐ผ Professionals catching up on talks, webinars and podcasts at speed
๐ง Anyone who learns from YouTube and is tired of losing it all the moment the tab closes
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๐ HOW IT WORKS
1๏ธโฃ Open any YouTube video
2๏ธโฃ Open the Tildew side panel
3๏ธโฃ Pick your language and depth, or just hit go
4๏ธโฃ Watch the transcript come in live, then read your notes
That is the whole thing. No account juggling, no uploading, no pasting links. ๐
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๐ณ WHAT IT COSTS, PLAINLY
Free every month. Every new account gets 2 hours of video free every month: Quick and Detailed notes, videos up to 60 minutes, your library on tildew.com and PDF export. No card needed, and nothing charges you automatically. Your free time comes back every month. Free time is for accounts that have never had a paid plan. ๐
When you want more, there is one paid plan, Standard: up to 15 hours of video a month (5 hours on India Standard), videos up to 4 hours, and Deep notes. Prices are set automatically for your region: $6.99 a month or $59 a year, ยฃ6.99 or ยฃ59.99 in the UK, โน179 or โน1,799 in India, $4.99 or $42 in much of Asia.
Here is the honest reason there is a paid plan: listening to audio costs us real money on every single video. We would rather charge a fair price than pay for it with ads or by selling your data. ๐
Every summary uses the length of the video plus a small fixed amount, and the panel shows the cost before you start. Some videos cost 25% less to summarise. Plan time resets every month. Subscribers can add top-up time (1 h 44 min for $2.99 / ยฃ2.99 / โน179), and top-up time does not expire. If a summary fails, it costs you nothing. ๐
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โ QUICK ANSWERS
Does it work if the video has no captions?
Yes. That is the entire point. ๐ง
Does it work on Hindi and Hinglish videos?
Yes, and it is genuinely good at them.
Can I get notes in a different language โฆ