YouTubeTLDR

Web · Windows · Mac · Linux · Self-hosted

Freedom report

Two barsScore 5.7

YouTubeTLDR is ranked #20 of 25 in AI video summarizers on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows.

Compared on AI video summarizers

Purpose: YouTubeTLDR is a lightweight, self-hosted YouTube video summarizer that uses Gemini AI.
Custom prompts: Users can customize the AI’s instructions to get summaries in their preferred format.
Gemini model selection: Users can choose any available Gemini model.
Transcript: The app provides access to the full, raw video transcript.
History: Summaries are saved locally in the user’s browser for future reference.
Privacy: The project says its Rust server runs on the user’s own machine and that user data stays theirs.
Gemini API: Users provide their own Google Gemini API key, which the app uses directly without proxies or data collection, according to the project.
Dependency footprint: The project describes the application as a roughly 0.3 MB single binary with no database, Tokio, or frameworks.
Interface: The app uses a Rust server with a vanilla HTML and JavaScript interface.
Setup: The documented setup is to run the executable and open localhost:8000 in a browser.
Configuration: The server IP, port, and worker count can be changed with the TLDR_IP, TLDR_PORT, and TLDR_WORKERS environment variables.
Concurrency limit: The server is optimized for personal use and is not designed to support hundreds of concurrent users.
License: The GitHub repository identifies the project’s license as MIT.
Gemini models: Users can choose any available Gemini model.

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