Fold hours of YouTube into minutes you'll actually use.
Paste a link. WatchFold reads the transcript and hands you the point of the video: what it argues, what's worth remembering and what to do about it, with timestamps when you want to jump back in.
Free while in beta. No signup for your first folds.
How it works
Paste any YouTube link
Talks, podcasts, tutorials, lectures. If the video has captions, it folds.
We fold it down
The transcript is distilled into a verdict, the core argument and every takeaway that matters, each tied to its timestamp.
You act on it
A short checklist of things to apply this week, plus the quotes worth saving. Jump back into the video exactly where a point was made.
Built for two kinds of watchers
You learn from videos
- A verdict before you commit two hours to a maybe.
- Takeaways with timestamps, so every claim is checkable.
- An action checklist, because a summary you never apply is trivia.
- Export to Notion, Obsidian and Markdown (coming soon).
You publish from videos
Turn one video into a week of content. Pick the channels, pick how many pieces and WatchFold drafts them from the digest in your voice.
The digest engine ships first. Creator formats are next.
Questions
Does it work on any video?
Any public YouTube video with captions, which covers almost everything published in the last few years. If a video has no transcript at all, we tell you instead of guessing.
How is this different from a summarizer?
A summary tells you what the video said. A WatchFold digest opens with a verdict on whether the video deserves your time, anchors every takeaway to a timestamp you can jump to and ends with a checklist of things to actually do.
Is it free?
Yes while we're in beta. You get a handful of folds a day without an account. Paid plans for unlimited folds and creator features come later.
Do you store the videos?
We store the transcript and the digest, never the video itself. That's also why popular videos fold instantly: someone already folded them for you.