Eightify

Come on, we’ve all been there. We attempt to watch a long video and we really can’t be bothered. So we end up sifting through the video, trying to get the gist and understand the important points. TikTok has ruined our brains and our attention spans. Of course, this isn’t efficient. We’ve probably ended up missing out the most important points and will find ourselves referring back to the video again and again until we ultimately give up. Not ideal.

Eightify is a AI-YouTube video summariser extension that analyses and breaks down your YouTube videos into digestible summaries in a matter of seconds. It’s an extremely easy tool to set up, simply download the Google Chrome extension, sign in with your Google account, include payment details, open a YouTube video and get summarising. The Eightify team do offer a free trial but this only lasts 7 days. Once this runs out, you will have to sign up to a paid plan. You can either pay $4.99/month (billed annually) or pay $9.99/monthly for the pro plan. The pro plan includes unlimited summaries, unlimited video length and summary translations. The great thing is that Eightify share plenty of examples of it’s capabilities, so you know exactly what you’ll be getting before committing to a paid plan.

Eightify helps you find necessary information a lot faster. The ‘key ideas’ tool pulls out 8 important points from the video and summarises it for you into digestible, easy to understand chunks. The summarises are short and to the point, so you’re never overwhelmed by the information or the size of the summaries. Some summarisation tools may summarise the material for you, but they still share paragraphs and paragraphs of text, which could still put you off. Saying that, I do believe the summaries could be more specific. If you’re looking for a quick summary of a video I would recommend Eightify, but if you’re looking for a in-depth summary, with no stone unturned, I’d suggest trying out another AI-summariser tool.