# Eightify alternative: Skimless vs Eightify

Eightify is a handy browser extension that summarizes the YouTube video you are currently watching into key points with timestamps. It is great for one video at a time. Skimless is the alternative when the problem is not one video but keeping up with all the channels you follow.

## What Eightify is great at

- Fast, in-page summaries of a single video.
- Key takeaways with timestamps so you can jump around.
- Low friction: install the extension, open a video, click summarize.

If your need is "summarize this video right now," Eightify is a good fit.

## Where Skimless is different

Skimless works at the channel level and over time, not video by video.

- **Follows channels automatically.** Add the channels you care about and every new upload is summarized for you, no clicking per video.
- **One daily brief.** Uploads are ranked and combined into a brief of what is worth watching, with links to each video.
- **More than YouTube.** The same brief can include newsletters, RSS feeds, docs, and changelogs.
- **Listen, not just read.** Briefs can be delivered as audio.

In short, Eightify summarizes a video you already opened; Skimless tells you which videos to open in the first place.

## Which to choose

- **Choose Eightify** for quick, on-demand summaries of individual videos while you browse.
- **Choose Skimless** to follow channels hands-off and get new uploads summarized into a daily brief alongside your other sources.

You can use both: Eightify for a video in front of you, Skimless to keep up with everything else. Try the [free YouTube summarizer](/tools/youtube-summarizer) to see Skimless-style output.

See also: [NoteGPT alternative](/compare/notegpt-alternative) and [How to follow YouTube channels without watching every video](/resources/summarize-youtube-channels).