Any link. Any length. One minute.

Long story
short.

Paste a YouTube video, podcast, or article. Readlis reads it for you and hands back exactly what matters — key points, quotes, and a timeline you can jump straight into.

transcript.txt

47 min → 90 sec

summary 3 key points

02:14

The real bottleneck isn't ideas — it's distribution. Every founder profiled built audience first.

11:40

Charging from day one filters for real users. Free tiers mostly generate support tickets.

28:02

Solo founders plateau near $30–50K MRR before support load forces a hire.

Built on Claude. Reads YouTube, Spotify & Apple podcasts, and most articles.

YouTube / Podcasts / Articles / PDFs / Lectures

How it works

Three steps. No installs, no extensions.

Paste the link

YouTube video, podcast episode, article, or PDF — Readlis figures out what it's looking at.

We read it for you

Claude pulls the full transcript or text and extracts what's actually worth knowing — not just keyword filler.

Get the takeaway

Key points with timestamps you can jump to, in well under two minutes of reading.

Why Readlis

We read the one-star reviews of every other summarizer first.

Here's what people are actually annoyed about — and what we did instead.

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Price shown before sign-up Hidden until you've used your free tries Always visible. No surprises.

What it can summarize YouTube only, most of the time YouTube, podcasts, articles, PDFs

Billing Weekly charges, hard-to-cancel flows Monthly or annual. Cancel in one tap.

Free tier 3 summaries, ever — then paywall 5 summaries every month, forever

Pricing

One plan. Nothing to configure.

Start free. Upgrade the moment you need more than 5 a month.

Free

For trying it out

5 summaries / month
YouTube, podcasts & articles
Key points + timestamps
No credit card required

Most people land here

Pro

$6.99 /month

Cancel anytime

Unlimited summaries
Any length — full lectures, full books on tape
Export to Notion, PDF & plain text
Priority processing

No multi-year lock-ins. No "contact sales." Just two plans.

Questions

Straight answers

What can I actually paste in?

Any YouTube video, Spotify or Apple Podcasts episode, news article, blog post, or PDF link. If it has spoken or written words, Readlis can read it.

How long can the source be?

Free plan handles anything up to 30 minutes or roughly 3,000 words. Pro removes the limit entirely — three-hour lectures included.

Will it miss things a real summary needs?

It's built to surface the points worth remembering, with timestamps so you can verify anything in the original source in seconds. Treat it as a head start, not a replacement for watching something that depends on visuals or tone.

Can I cancel easily?

One tap, no retention flow, no "are you sure" maze. If you cancel mid-cycle, Pro stays active until the period ends.

Do you store what I summarize?

Your summaries are saved to your account so you can find them again. We don't sell or share what you paste.

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