Scrivvy

Scrivvy summarizes YouTube videos and podcast episodes, returning a bullet list and a longer breakdown from a pasted link. Followed podcasts are summarized automatically into a feed and by email. Free tier gives 100 on-demand hours and 2 subscriptions; Plus is $9/month for 1,000 hours and 30 subscriptions.

Scrivvy is a transcription and summarization service built around one problem: an unwatched backlog of long videos and podcast episodes. The product has two halves that share the same output. The first half handles on-demand requests: a URL from YouTube, Apple Podcasts or Spotify is pasted into the app, Scrivvy pulls the transcript, and returns two versions of the content, a bullet list for quick reading and a longer written breakdown with key points and decisions. The second half runs in the background. A user follows a podcast once, and each new episode is transcribed and summarized automatically into a personal feed with unread counts, with the summary also delivered by email. The summarized feed is the part that separates Scrivvy from generic chat-based summarizers. It behaves like an inbox for audio: subscriptions accumulate, new episodes arrive already read, and there is nothing to open or trigger. A browser extension for Chrome and Firefox places a summary button directly on YouTube pages, so a viewer can judge whether a long video is worth watching without leaving the tab. Summaries stream into the screen rather than arriving by notification. The company cites a Lex Fridman interview with the Cursor team, two and a half hours long, as a sample output: a short paragraph plus key points on speculative edits, diff handling and bug detection. Language coverage is broad: the source can be English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish or German, and the summary is returned in English. The natural audience is people who consume a lot of long-form audio and video (developers, researchers, podcast listeners, students working through lectures) and who want triage rather than a note-taking workspace. There is no stated API, no team workspace and no export tooling, so it competes on throughput and low friction rather than depth. The free tier allows 100 on-demand hours and two podcast subscriptions with no card, and a $9 monthly plan raises that to 1,000 hours and 30 subscriptions.