Distill vs Eightify

Distill turns captioned YouTube videos into written summaries, with interviews, podcasts, and educational long-form video as its focus. Summaries are flowing prose divided into sections, and users can switch among summary, chapter, and transcript views. A player above the summary lets viewers jump to a chapter or moment, and each summary is followed by a short quiz. Distill relies on captions and reports when a video has no subtitles rather than inferring content from its title or description. It supports public captioned YouTube videos, focuses on videos roughly four minutes and longer, and does not support Shorts or very short clips. Users can paste a YouTube link or open one shared from YouTube or Safari. Guest access allows one summary a day for videos up to 30 minutes. An email-verified free account allows three daily summaries for videos up to 60 minutes, plus a saved library, sync, continued watching, and offline reading. Pro is $3.99 a month and includes unlimited summaries, videos up to two hours, 40+ languages, chapters, transcripts, and an outline. Distill is available on iOS.

Eightify uses AI to summarize YouTube videos and identify key information. Its summaries include timestamps for jumping to a topic, an overview of top comments, and video transcripts; it also offers a transcript generator and can summarize transcripts. Users can shape key insights by choosing a focus, format, length, and grouping, then share summaries as links or export them. Summaries and translations are available in more than 40 languages. The Chrome extension listing says it handles videos up to 10 hours and is powered by Claude and ChatGPT. Eightify names podcasts, interviews, science and technology, business, investing, news, health, and personal growth as possible subjects. It is available on Android, iOS, web, and as a browser extension. A free plan and free trial are available. Eightify Pro costs $9.99 a month, billed monthly, or $59.99 a year, billed annually. It does not summarize webpages or accept file uploads. Eightify says it collects contact, device, and usage data and applies security measures, while noting that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed.