One video
Paste one link. Read the whole thread, search it by a keyword or by the person who wrote it, then take the slice you need out as CSV or JSON.
Open the viewerComments, subtitles, audience.One link in. Export one, ten, or ask AI.
Paste a public YouTube link to read the comment thread and search it by keyword or by the person who wrote it, take the video's captions as TXT, SRT or VTT, or turn the audience's reaction into a report. Paste ten and they come back as one ZIP.
- Public videos only
- Preview without an account
- 1 credit per video, 5 free on sign-up
- 3 free subtitle reads a day without an account
- No extension to install
01HOW IT WORKS
One link in. Three ways out.
Nothing to install and no extension to add. The same public video link can give you its captions, its comment thread, or a report on what the audience actually said — pick the one you came for. Every screenshot below is this app; the numbered badge marks the element that step uses.
- STEP 01
Read the captions
Paste the link and the transcript opens beside the player, one sentence per line with a timestamp. Search any word across the whole thing, step through the matches, and click a timestamp to play from that exact line. Then, if you want the argument rather than the words, send the same transcript to the model: it comes back with the central claim, what to take away and who it is for — in English, whatever language the video is in.
Then press Get subtitles
TranscriptTimestampsChapters2 / 2 matches1battery1AI on this transcriptA short engineering post-mortem on one product decision, for anyone who has had to argue for removing something users expected.
The battery was never tested properly
The team had weeks to test thermals because that was the obvious risk, but **the battery was measurable from day one** and nobody instrumented it. Two weeks went into a component that had never been the suspect.
What a two-hour run actually showed
The advertised figure came from a short test. Measuring for two hours separated the battery from heat, which **a short test could not** — and the short test is the one that shipped.
- STEP 02
Read the thread
The comment side does what you would expect: search by keyword or by the person who wrote it, sort by newest or most liked, and page through the whole thread. Matches are highlighted so a 1,000-comment thread reads like a short list.
Then press Read all comments
BrowseExportpage 12battery2 matchesV2Could you test the battery life next?
619 repliesV3Battery life is the only thing holding me back.
475 replies - STEP 03
Read the audience
Now the other half: what the audience said. A counted report of the thread — how the mood splits, which words keep coming back, what nobody answered — plus an optional deeper reading by a model that quotes the comments behind every claim. This one reads the comments; the reading in step 01 reads what the video said.
Then press Analyze comments
Thread reportMood Counted, not guessedThemes Recurring wordsQuestions Nobody answered1,284 comments read.Mood and themes counted · deeper reading optional
- Every one of these needs a free sign-in, and each action is charged separately: reading a thread or a caption track is 1 credit, an AI reading of either is 3. A new account starts with 5 credits. Only the comment preview on the viewer page is free. Sign in with Google and you land back on the same video with your search still there; no YouTube password is ever asked for.
02FOUR WAYS TO WORK
Subtitles
Read the caption track a video already has beside the player, search it, click a timestamp to play from that line — then send the same transcript to the model for a reading of what it actually argues — the central claim, what to take away, and who it is for, written in English whatever language the video is in. Export as TXT, SRT or VTT. Never transcribed from audio.
Open the subtitle workbenchMany videos
Paste up to ten links and get one ZIP back: a file per video, plus a manifest. The videos that worked are kept even when a few fail.
Open batch exportAI
What a thread actually means — the themes, the disagreements, and what is worth answering next. Every claim carries the comments behind it.
Open the analysis03 / WHAT YOU GETExactly what lands
Exactly what lands
in the file.
No black box and no hidden columns. Here is what an export contains, and the little that stays with us afterwards.
01
Five columns, fixed
text · author · likes · replies · published — the same header on every file, so two exports can be concatenated without editing.
02
Replies, your call
Expand a comment's replies into the file, or keep it flat at one row per comment. It is a switch on the export, not a different tool.
03
CSV or JSON, 24 hours
The file name carries the video ID, so an export always points back to the thread it came from. Files expire after 24 hours.
04
No comment database
Every read goes to YouTube live. A saved job keeps one row per video — the counts and coverage, plus the short excerpts an analysis quotes as examples. The comment bodies themselves are not stored.
COVERAGE & LIMITS
Clear about what
the data can say.
We use publicly available comments returned through the official YouTube API. Deleted, held, members-only or disabled comments are not included.
- Source and sync time shown on every result
- Partial coverage is labelled, never hidden
- Likes, replies and oldest sort within the loaded page, not the whole thread
- Comment bodies are read live and not stored — an analysis keeps only the short excerpts it quotes as evidence
The battery is the only part we never got to test properly.
We measured it for two hours and the drop was battery-side, not heat.