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Turn YouTube subscriptions into a personal newsletter

About ReadTube

ReadTube converts YouTube and Bilibili channel subscriptions into a personal, newsletter-style reading experience. Instead of watching, users receive structured summaries and full-length articles for each video, which can be read, annotated, and organized like an email inbox. The tool supports semantic search, note-taking, and translation into multiple languages. It is designed for those who prefer in-depth, distraction-free engagement with long-form video content. ReadTube is source available for free self-hosting, while its cloud version is currently free during beta, with paid plans and quotas to be enforced later.

Best for: researchers, lifelong learners, readers of long-form video content, YouTube channel followers

Key features

  • Transforms video subscriptions into a newsletter-style inbox for reading
  • Provides two summaries and a full-length article for each video
  • Allows translation of summaries and articles into multiple languages
  • Enables semantic search across all followed channels and videos
  • Supports notes and highlights with timestamps linked to source videos
  • Lets users self-host the product with their own infrastructure and API keys

Use cases

  • Reading and organizing long-form YouTube or Bilibili content as articles
  • Creating a searchable, annotated archive of video content for research or study
  • Translating video content summaries and articles for multilingual reading

Pros

  • Free to self-host with source-available license
  • Cloud version is free during beta period

Limitations

  • Does not support short videos, music videos, or videos without captions
  • Cloud quotas and paid plans will be enforced after beta

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