KondensMe vs Eightify

Eightify gives you the gist of a YouTube video without leaving YouTube. KondensMe takes 10 to 15 minutes to write the article a specialist would, researched on the web.

Free with an account, no credit card.

Eightify is a YouTube summarizer: a browser extension and phone apps that put a timestamped summary next to the video, in more than 40 languages, with the transcript and a look at the top comments.

KondensMe is for people who learn from long videos and podcasts for their work. Paste a YouTube link and it writes an expert article that goes beyond the video: researched on the web, with diagrams, an action plan and questions to test yourself, plus a mind map, a glossary and slides.

KondensMe and Eightify, side by side

Criterion	KondensMe	Eightify
What you give it	A YouTube video (paste the link), a podcast or a YouTube channel you follow, a PDF, Word, text, audio or video file up to 5 GB	A YouTube video
What you get	An expert article that goes beyond the video: researched on the web, with diagrams, an action plan, questions to test yourself and links to go further	A timestamped summary, the transcript, the top comments; a summary can become a shareable article
Built from	The video, completed by a web search	The video
Around it	Mind map, glossary, transcript in step with the video, slides (PPTX, PDF), a chat that answers from the whole video	Transcript, timestamped key points, comments
Where you use it	A web app: you paste a link	Chrome extension, Safari on Mac, iPhone and Android apps
Languages	Translation into more than 30 languages	More than 40 languages
Price	Free with an account, no credit card.	Pro on iPhone: $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year (App Store)

Choose KondensMe if

You want to learn from a long video without watching it: an article that goes further than the speaker, with an action plan.
Your sources are also podcasts, PDFs or recordings, not only YouTube.
You want to keep, translate and share what you learned: exports, slides, a public page if you publish it.
You also want the minutes of your Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings.

Choose Eightify if

You want the gist of a video in a few clicks, right on the YouTube page.
You want a summary of the comments under the video.
You mostly use your phone: Eightify has iPhone and Android apps.

Questions

Is KondensMe a YouTube summarizer like Eightify?

Not quite. Eightify summarizes the video. KondensMe writes an expert article from it: it listens to the whole video, researches the web and writes what a specialist would, with diagrams, an action plan and links to go further. It takes 10 to 15 minutes.

Does KondensMe have a browser extension like Eightify?

For videos, no: KondensMe is a web app. You paste a YouTube link on the home page, or follow a channel or a podcast so each new episode is analyzed for you.

Can Eightify summarize podcasts or PDFs?

Its pages describe YouTube videos. KondensMe also takes podcasts (by their RSS feed), PDFs, Word and text files, and audio or video recordings up to 5 GB.

How much does KondensMe cost?

Free with an account, no credit card. Free: 300 minutes of meetings a month.

Which AI does KondensMe use?

AI models from Anthropic and Google, through OpenRouter.

What this page says about Eightify comes from its own pages, read in November 2026:

Try it on your next long video

Free with an account, no credit card.