We’ve all been there.
You open a YouTube video that promises “everything you need to know in 10 minutes” — and 25 minutes later, you’re still waiting for the actual point.
Eightify solves exactly that problem.
Instead of creating content, Eightify focuses on something surprisingly valuable:
turning long YouTube videos into short, structured summaries you can actually use.
What Eightify Does
- a concise text summary
- key takeaways
- chapter-style breakdowns
- bullet-point insights
- timestamps for important moments
Instead of watching a 40-minute video, you get the essence in under a minute.
How Eightify Actually Works
Eightify works as a browser extension rather than a standalone platform. Once installed, it integrates directly into YouTube itself. When you open any YouTube video, Eightify automatically appears next to the video player, allowing you to generate an AI-powered summary with a single click. There’s no need to copy links, switch tabs, or move between tools — everything happens inside YouTube. That’s the key thing to understand: Eightify doesn’t have a separate interface — it lives inside YouTube.
This makes it feel more like a native YouTube feature than a standalone AI tool.
Our Test
To test Eightify properly, we suggest something realistic — not a “perfect” video.
We opend a houre long YouTube video link into and click summarize and let it generate the summary without any additional input. You can choose from 4 different styles: funny, insightful, actionable, conversational. Also you can choose the length of the summary. We choose detailed because if you cheat and take a short road, don’t make it shorter!
What we looked at? Does the summary capture the actual point of the video? Are the key ideas clearly separated? Does it skip fluff and repetition? Are timestamps useful and accurate?
Eightify delivered a clean, readable summary that:
- highlighted the main arguments
- grouped ideas logically
- removed filler and rambling
- kept the original structure of the talk
It won’t replace watching a video you truly care about — but it’s incredibly effective for deciding whether a video is worth your time at all.
Limitations to Keep in Mind
Like most summarization tools: nuance can sometimes be lost, tone and storytelling don’t always translate to text, very complex arguments may feel oversimplified. Still, for speed and clarity, Eightify does exactly what it promises.
Final Thoughts
Eightify is not flashy — and that’s its strength. It doesn’t try to do everything. It does one thing very
well: saving you time.
Eightify is especially useful when you want to avoid sitting through long videos that never quite get to the information you’re actually looking for. It can quickly save you time, reduce frustration, and help you filter content more efficiently.
That said, video is still video — and compressing tone, nuance, storytelling, or context into a few sentences is inherently difficult. Many YouTubers rely heavily on sarcasm, humor, or indirect storytelling, and this is where Eightify struggles the most. Subtle irony or playful exaggeration often gets flattened or misinterpreted.
Because of
that, Eightify works best with informational, structured videos, and less
reliably with opinion-heavy, sarcastic, or narrative-driven content. Choosing
the right type of video is key to getting real value out of it. We are giving
it a 4/5 on our LMAI scale.
