VideoHighlighter vs yTeaser

VideoHighlighter is a desktop app that analyzes video and creates highlight reels or individual clips. It scores scene, motion, audio, object, action, and transcript signals, then shows the reasons in a timeline and report. Reports also identify strong moments that missed the cut and transcript claims that were not measured. Video, transcripts, detections, and local models stay on disk; analysis, search, and export do not upload footage. The basic pipeline needs no API key, and a GPU is optional because current CPUs can run it. The free edition includes offline analysis, live face detection, VR side-by-side playback, CLIP search, composition rules, model training, and a model hub. Pro adds live object and action overlays, point-and-teach categories, open-vocabulary detection, similarity search, and counter or scoreboard detection. Prebuilt downloads are available for Windows and macOS; Linux runs from source using pip and Python. The free repository is under AGPL-3.0, with a separate commercial license. Individual Pro costs $49, paid once for one editor on up to five computers.

yTeaser takes a YouTube link and returns an AI summary with three extracted takeaways, each under 100 characters. It detects the video’s language, summarizes in that language, and translates non-English videos into English. Optional sentiment analysis grades reactions in top comments from A+ to F. The web app and Chrome extension provide access; the extension adds a summary button to YouTube thumbnails and shows results inline. A REST API offers video summarization and English translation endpoints, rate limited to 20 and 30 requests per minute respectively. The Slack bot detects YouTube links and replies in message threads, although the site says it is awaiting Slack review and approval. The free plan costs nothing and allows 10 summaries per day without an account. Pro costs $1.99 a month or $9.90 a year, with 50 summaries per day and priority support. yTeaser accepts YouTube links, not uploads. Summaries may fail for private, age-restricted, removed, or very short videos.