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By Arun Agrahri, founder of Taffy | Last updated 9 July 2026

Glasp is one of the best free YouTube summarizers going, and it is more than that — a social highlighter for the web, PDFs, and YouTube, with a public community of other people's highlights that is a real reason to use it. For capturing and summarizing single videos and articles, it is excellent, and this page will happily say so.

Where it stops is the whole channel: searching every transcript and every comment across a catalogue as one index. Below is how Glasp's YouTube summary works, its verified pricing, and the alternative for the channel-wide job.

How Glasp's YouTube summary works

Glasp's "YouTube Summary" is a free browser extension (with a paste-a-URL web tool) that has millions of users. Open a video, click once, and it pulls the transcript and generates an AI summary with key points and timestamps you can jump to. You choose the model — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Mistral — and can highlight the transcript and export it to Notion, Obsidian, or Roam. Basic use needs no sign-up. It is fast, clean, and genuinely one of the better single-video summarizers.

Glasp pricing

A free plan and two paid tiers, read from glasp.co in 9 July 2026. The lower per-month figures are the annual-billed rate.

Plan Monthly billing Annual billing Roughly what you get
Free$0$0~3 basic YouTube summaries/day, public highlights
Pro$15/mo$12.50/moAdvanced summaries, private highlights, Notion sync
Unlimited$36/mo$30/moHigher limits, more channel tracking, priority support

Verified against glasp.co/pricing in July 2026. Students and educators get 40% off. Prices rose on 1 May 2026, so older "Unlimited $25/mo" figures on third-party sites are out of date.

Where Glasp stops

The summarizer is one video at a time. Glasp does have a Channel Tracking feature — connect your own channel and it syncs your public videos and their transcripts, which you can browse and export by title, description, or date. That is useful, but it is a transcript dashboard, not a searchable brain: there is no semantic search and no question-answering across the videos. You cannot ask "which of these covered X" and get an answer from the whole catalogue.

It does not read comments. Every Glasp YouTube feature works from the transcript. The comments — where the audience says what it wants more of — are not part of what Glasp sees.

The alternative for whole-channel search

Taffy turns a whole channel into a searchable, ask-anything index. Point it at any public YouTube channel and it indexes every transcript and every comment, then answers a question across all of them with the exact episode and timestamp. It is the difference between exporting a channel's transcripts and being able to question them — and because the comments are indexed too, you can ask what the audience said back.

Tool Channel scope Reads comments Price Best for
Taffy Searchable Q&A index Every comment $9 · $199 Searching a back catalog
Glasp Transcript export only No Free; Pro $15 Highlighting, single-video summaries

Readers use the Library to search channels that are already indexed for $9/mo. Creators use Creator Club to index their own channel and three competitors. If you mainly want to summarize and highlight single videos, stay on Glasp — it is one of the best at that, and the free tier is generous.

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Frequently asked questions

Glasp's YouTube Summary is a free browser extension that pulls the transcript of the video you are watching and generates an AI summary with key points and timestamps, letting you pick the model (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Mistral). It works one video at a time, no sign-up needed for basic use, and you can highlight the transcript and export to Notion, Obsidian, or Roam.

Glasp has a free plan and two paid tiers. As of July 2026 its pricing page lists Pro at $15/mo ($12.50/mo billed annually) and Unlimited at $36/mo ($30/mo billed annually). The free plan includes unlimited public highlights and about three basic YouTube summaries a day. Students and educators get 40% off.

Not as a searchable index. Glasp summarizes one video at a time, and its Channel Tracking feature lets you connect your own channel to sync and export its transcripts and browse them by title, description, or date. But there is no semantic search and no question-answering across all of a channel's videos as one knowledge base — you cannot ask one question and get an answer drawn from the whole catalogue.

No. Every Glasp YouTube feature works from the video transcript; neither its summarizer nor its channel tracking reads or analyzes the comments.

For highlighting and summarizing single videos and articles, Glasp is excellent and its public-highlight community is a genuine draw. If you need to search every transcript and every comment across a whole channel and get answers cited to the episode and timestamp, Taffy is the alternative built for that.

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Written by

Arun Agrahri

Founder, Taffy

I build Taffy, which indexes every transcript and every comment on a YouTube channel. Most of my time goes into running channels through the pipeline and reading what falls out. The claims on this page were checked against live sources on 9 July 2026.

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