TubeCortex
Research any YouTube creator

Build a Creator Brain from any YouTube channel.

TubeCortex is an AI research tool for YouTube: summarize any video, ask questions across a creator's back catalogue, and get new uploads summarized automatically — answers pulled from every video you added, not just one.

2,500 free credits — enough for dozens of full-length video summaries · No credit card

Pick a creator. Ask their whole channel.

Each one is a real Creator Brain built from that channel’s videos. Open one and ask it something.

Autopilot watches YouTube for you.

Set it once. Pick your channels and the topics you care about — when a new video matches, TubeCortex summarizes it and lets you know on Telegram the moment it’s ready to read.

Step 1Pick your channels and topics
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Step 2TubeCortex summarizes the match
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Step 3Telegram tells you the moment it's ready
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The forgotten developer who saved JavaScript...Fireship▸ Read the summary

Delivered. You never opened YouTube.

No Telegram? Summaries still wait for you in the app.

More than a YouTube summary generator.

Most YouTube AI tools stop at a single video summary. TubeCortex remembers every video, channel, and subscription you add — so you can ask a question and get an answer, even months later.

Creator Brain

Add a creator's channel and chat with their back catalogue. Ask what they believe, how their views changed, or what they said about any topic — and jump to the exact moment in the video where they said it. Pick the videos you want indexed, switch on auto-update, and every new upload joins the brain by itself. This is the part most summary tools never reach.

Ask Your Whole Library

Save videos as you go. Later, ask one question and TubeCortex searches every video in your library — no need to remember which video had the answer.

Auto-Summarize YouTube Channels

Subscribe to channels or import your YouTube subscriptions in one click. Every new upload gets detected, summarized with your chosen tier and format, filtered by the topics you actually care about, and saved to your searchable library.

Bring Your Own AI Key

Most people never need this. Power users can connect their own OpenRouter key and run Claude, GPT, Gemini, or Grok on their provider account. Chats and summaries then cost you nothing here — only building brains uses credits.

Telegram Notifications

The moment a channel you follow uploads, TubeCortex catches it, summarizes the video, and pings you on Telegram with a link to read it. No need to check back — we'll tell you when it's ready.

Structured AI Notes

Generate a timestamped Chapters breakdown, a Verdict that gives you the call in one line, a full Deep Dive, or a custom format you define with your own instructions. Notes match how you think, not how AI writes.

Use YouTube for answers, not endless watching.

Whether you use YouTube for buying decisions, finance research, lectures, or creator updates, TubeCortex turns hours of watching into answers you can search.

Use case 01

Creator catch-up

Miss a week of uploads? Ask the Creator Brain which stocks had buy calls, which had sells, and what insights matter. A week's content recovered in minutes.

Use case 02

Purchase research

Import review videos and ask which product each creator recommends. Get a consolidated verdict across all creators in seconds, not after hours of watching.

Use case 03

Research and learning

Save lectures, conference talks, and tutorials. Search and ask questions across your entire learning library, instead of re-watching everything from scratch.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, and it keeps being free. New accounts start with 2,500 free credits, enough for dozens of full-length video summaries on the premium tiers, with no credit card required. When those credits run out the premium tiers lock until you top up, but TubeCortex Free still costs nothing and never spends credits.

Go to the Autopilot page, search for any creator, and subscribe. You can also import your existing YouTube subscriptions in one click. Every new upload is automatically summarized using your chosen tier and format from that point forward.

Yes. After generating any summary, ask follow-up questions and TubeCortex answers from what's actually said in the video, not from general AI knowledge. To ask across an entire channel or everything you've saved, use Creator Brain or ask your whole library.

Yes. The Q&A feature lets you ask anything about the video content. Answers come from what's actually said in the video. Use it to clarify concepts, drill into specific timestamps, or verify claims made in the video.

No. The summary is just the start. TubeCortex works like a personal search engine for YouTube: chat across your saved videos, build Creator Brains from entire channels, and get new uploads summarized automatically.

Yes. Summaries run on leading models like Claude, GPT, and Gemini behind three simple quality tiers — Quick, Balanced, and Think Deeper — picked at summary time. Want a specific model? Connect your own OpenRouter API key and choose exactly which Claude or GPT model runs, on your own credits.

Yes. Lectures, conference talks, educational videos, and long-form interviews are a primary use case. The Chapters format turns a lecture into a timestamped outline you can jump around, which is ideal for academic and research use.

Yes. Every summary is built from the video's underlying transcript, so what was spoken becomes text you can read, search across your library, and ask questions about — with timestamps that jump straight to the moment it was said.

Creator Brain turns a YouTube channel's back catalogue into a searchable knowledge base. You pick which of its videos go in, then ask questions answered by synthesizing information across all of them, not just the latest upload.

Yes. Everything in your account (library, summaries, custom modes, channel subscriptions, conversation history) is private by default. Nothing is published or shared unless you actively choose to share it.

Build an AI memory for the YouTube you already watch.

Start by summarizing one video. Grow it into a library you can search, a Creator Brain you can question, and a feed that summarizes new uploads and pings your Telegram the moment one is ready.

2,500 free credits — enough for dozens of full-length video summaries · No credit card required · Google sign-in takes 10 secondsGoogle sign-in is used only to create your account. Connecting YouTube is optional and read-only — we import just the list of channels you subscribe to, and we never post to YouTube.
TubeCortex·Stop watching. Start asking.

TubeCortex requests your Google account only to sign you in. Connecting YouTube is optional and read-only: it is used solely to import the list of channels you subscribe to, never to change anything on your YouTube account, and you can revoke it anytime in your Google security settings. See our Privacy Policy for details on how we handle your data.