Open engines, named
YouTube retrieval on youtube-transcript-api and yt-dlp, documents on Docling and pypdf, transcription on Whisper, summaries on Claude. Each is named on the page that uses it.
See every engine the toolkit runs onContent extraction and AI research toolkit
Get the gist of any video, document or web page, with every point cited
Transcripts, clean text and AI summaries whose every point links back to the exact second or page — for professionals, creators, researchers and developers. Paste a link or drop a file: free to start, processed in memory, nothing stored.
The problem we solve
The substance you need is locked in a 45-minute video, a 120-page PDF, an hour of audio or a page that only renders with JavaScript. Getting it out by hand means one tool for captions, another for PDFs, a third for transcription, then a chat window that loses the timestamps and cannot say where an answer came from.
GistCite takes every one of those sources in, gives back text that keeps its structure, and lets you summarize, question and draft from it with citations to the second or the page — in the web app or from the API, under one account and one quota.
What you can do
Every tool opens directly; each also has a page that explains who it is for, how it works and what it costs.
Free to start
100 extractions a month on the free plan — no card required. Go Pro for 2,000, plus API keys for automation.
See pricing →How it works
The same five steps for every source, in the web app and the API.
Step 1
Add a source
Paste a YouTube link, a web address, or drop a PDF, Office file, recording or video. Nothing is stored except the text that comes out.
Step 2
Extract
The transcript or text comes back with its structure — timestamps, page anchors, headings and tables — ready to copy, download or send to your AI.
Step 3
Understand
Ask for a summary, key points and chapters, or ask a question and get an answer with citations back to the exact page or second.
Step 4
Create
Turn the source into a post, a brief, a script, captions, subtitles or clips, and download the file.
Step 5
Automate
Everything in the web app is one API call with the same account and quota, so a workflow that works by hand runs on a schedule.
Read how it works in detail, including the engines it runs on
What you can check
We publish the facts a prospect can verify instead of claims they cannot.
Data handling you can read
Files processed in memory and never stored; self-service export and deletion; TLS, hashed credentials, no ad trackers; and a security page that says which audits have not been done.
Read the security and compliance pagePrices before you click
The cost of every action is shown before it runs and reported after it in the API's quota headers. The free plan is 100 units a month with no card.
Compare the Free, Pro and API plansWorked examples
Reproducible walkthroughs on public material, with the cost in units. Not customer testimonials.
Independent podcaster
From a one-hour podcast episode to a newsletter, captions and three clips
One public episode on YouTube becomes a transcript, a chaptered summary, a newsletter draft, SRT captions and three short clips, all from one upload.
Follow the walkthroughIndependent consultant
From a 120-page annual report to a cited two-page brief
A public annual report PDF becomes page-anchored Markdown, a set of extracted tables, answers with page citations, and an executive brief a client can verify.
Follow the walkthroughGraduate student
From a twelve-lecture playlist and two textbooks to a searchable study corpus
A public lecture playlist and two public-domain textbooks become one set of transcripts, summaries and chunked JSON, ready for revision or a personal AI index.
Follow the walkthroughBuilt for
Pick the page for your kind of work.
Independent professionals and consultants
You read, watch and listen for a living, and the output is a brief, a post or a recommendation. GistCite takes the source material in and hands back cited notes and first drafts.
GistCite for consultants, coaches and independent professionalsContent creators and podcasters
One long episode should become the transcript, the show notes, the newsletter, the captions and the clips. GistCite does each step from the same source.
GistCite for creators, podcasters and newsletter writersMarketers and social media analysts
Audience research, competitor videos and campaign pages are all text once extracted. GistCite gets them out, scores the reaction and drafts the response.
GistCite for marketers, brand managers and social media analystsResearchers and students
Lectures, papers, archives and interviews become a corpus you can search, summarize and cite, with the page or timestamp attached to every point.
GistCite for researchers, students and academicsDevelopers and AI builders
Every tool in the web app is one REST call with the same account and quota: transcripts, documents with page anchors, chunked JSON for vector stores, web extraction and Whisper.
GistCite for developers and AI buildersQuestions before you start
- What does GistCite do?
- It turns YouTube videos, documents, recordings and web pages into transcripts and clean text, then summarizes them with citations, answers questions about them, and drafts posts, briefs, captions and clips from them. The web app and the API share one account and one quota.
- Who is it for?
- Independent professionals, content creators and podcasters, marketers, researchers and students, and developers building AI workflows: anyone whose work crosses videos, documents and recordings.
- What is free and what is paid?
- The free plan includes 100 units a month for YouTube transcripts, document extraction, PDF editing, the Markdown editor, text to speech and dictation. Pro ($15 a month list price, 2,000 units) adds AI summaries, Ask and Create, Media Tools, Web Extractor, Sentiment Analysis, Open Library and batches. API ($49 a month list, 10,000 units) is the same at volume. Prices are charged by Stripe and shown live on the pricing page.
- How is pricing structured?
- By quota units. A transcript, a document or a page is 1 unit; an AI summary is 10 at Standard or 30 at Deep; transcription is priced per minute; OCR per page. The cost of an action is shown before it runs, and every metered API response reports what it cost.
- How long does it take to get started?
- Seconds. Paste a YouTube link on the homepage and the transcript appears; no account is needed for a few transcripts. An account takes an email address; Pro is a Stripe checkout.
- How is my data protected?
- Uploaded files are processed in memory and never stored; only extracted text is kept, in your history, and you can export or delete everything yourself. TLS in transit, hashed passwords and API keys, no advertising trackers. We describe our security controls honestly, including what we have not been audited for.
- Which integrations and formats are available?
- A REST API with API keys for every tool; exports to TXT, SRT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, XLSX, CSV, JSON and more; and the same content flows between tools, so a transcript can be summarized, questioned, turned into a draft or captioned without re-uploading.
- Which AI models are used?
- Summaries, Ask and Create run on Claude by Anthropic; transcription runs on Whisper; document extraction on Docling and pypdf. Only extracted text is sent to a model, never the original file.
Start with a transcript
Paste a YouTube link and the transcript is yours in seconds. 6 tools are free to start; Pro adds the AI, media and research tools.