A Smarter YouTube Library in Your Language

Sumdown Team·

YouTube is full of useful ideas, but keeping up with the right channels should not mean summarizing every upload or opening every video just to understand what it is about.

Sumdown gives you more control over that workflow. Your connected channels now form a focused video library, every eligible video can get a free preview in your language, and you decide which channels should automatically turn new uploads into full summaries.

Your library and your summary queue are now separate

Previously, following a channel in Sumdown and automatically summarizing its new videos were closely tied together. That made it harder to keep interesting channels in your library without spending credits on every upload.

Now, all connected, non-hidden channels can contribute videos to your library. For each channel, you can independently choose whether new videos should be summarized automatically.

This means you can:

  • keep a broad library of channels you want to follow;
  • enable auto-summarize only for the highest-value sources;
  • summarize another video manually when it catches your attention;
  • hide a channel from the feed without disconnecting your YouTube account;
  • trigger a manual YouTube sync from Settings when you want a fresh update.

Understand a video before spending a credit

Sumdown now prepares a short metadata preview for eligible library videos. The preview uses the video’s title, description, chapters, and channel context. It does not fetch a transcript and does not consume a Sumdown credit.

That distinction matters. A preview is a quick orientation based on the available video details, not a claim that Sumdown has already analyzed the full video. It helps you decide whether a transcript-backed summary is worth generating.

If the stored metadata is too sparse to support a useful preview, Sumdown will avoid inventing one.

Previews and summaries use your exact language

Language is now part of the identity of generated content in Sumdown.

If your selected summary language is German, the app looks for the German preview and German summary. It will not quietly display an English artifact just because one already exists. The same rule applies independently to the compact summary and the extended article.

Changing your language does not erase earlier versions. It lets Sumdown create or reuse the exact language variant you asked for.

You also do not pay repeatedly for changing languages. Once you have unlocked a summary for a video, generating or reusing another language for that same video does not consume a second credit.

A smoother path from transcript to summary

The summary screen now gives clearer feedback while work is running. You can see transcript context emerge during processing, keep track of the current state, and move naturally from a compact overview into the full summary.

Behind the scenes, Sumdown generates the compact and extended content as one validated bundle in the normal path. This reduces duplicated work and helps the two versions stay consistent with each other.

We also made transcript typo correction more conservative. Uncommon but valid brand and product names are less likely to be replaced with a more familiar — but incorrect — alternative.

More room to try Sumdown

New accounts now start with 250 free credits for 30 days.

Monthly plans are:

  • 300 credits for $7/month;
  • 1,000 credits for $19/month;
  • 3,000 credits for $49/month;
  • 5,000 credits for $79/month.

The goal is simple: let you keep a useful library, spend credits deliberately, and reserve automatic summaries for the channels that matter most.

Start with the channels you already follow

Connect YouTube, review your channels in Settings, and turn on auto-summarize for the sources you never want to miss. The rest can stay in your library until a title or free preview gives you a reason to go deeper.

Open Sumdown and build a calmer way to learn from YouTube.