YouChop reads the transcript and adds real, clickable chapters to the seekbar — right in YouTube's own player, on any video the creator never chaptered. Free to start, no card.
5 free chops · no credit card · works on any video with captions
watch: a 2-hour video with no chapters
Most long videos never get chapters. So you scrub blind through a 2-hour podcast looking for the one part you came for.
No chapters? YouChop's icon lights up. It only wakes on videos that need it.
AI reads the transcript and builds topic chapters in seconds — titles that say what's actually in each part.
Chapters appear exactly where YouTube shows real ones — the seekbar and the chapter list. Click and skip.
Summarizers bolt a sidebar onto the page and hand you a wall of text. You read about the video instead of navigating it.
Seekbar segments, the chapter list, hover titles — rendered where YouTube renders real chapters, so it feels like the creator added them. And any video someone already chopped loads instantly, free, for everyone.
Chapters pasted into your descriptions become Google-searchable Key Moments. We'll chapter your entire back-catalog — up to 200 videos — for $99, once. Others charge $19–39 every month.
New: point YouChop at any YouTube channel, pull every transcript, and copy-paste it straight into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor. Research a creator's entire catalog in one shot.
5 free chops when you sign up — no card. Earn more by sharing, or buy a pack when you're hooked. Already-chopped videos never cost anyone a credit.
No. YouChop renders chapters locally in your browser — nothing is posted, automated, or modified on YouTube itself. If you choose to share timestamps in a comment, you paste them yourself, manually, like any other comment. YouChop never auto-posts anything, anywhere.
Only the public transcript of the video you're currently watching. No browsing history, no personal data collection, minimal permissions (youtube.com only). Our privacy policy states exactly what chapter data we store and how to request deletion.
With your permission, through YouTube's official API — you sign in with Google and consent to caption access for your own channel. Nothing is scraped, and you can revoke access anytime. Your chapters are delivered as editable text you paste into your descriptions: they're yours forever, even if you never use YouChop again.
You can earn more free (share chapters +1, invite a friend +10) or buy a pack. And any video someone has already chapterized loads instantly and never costs you a credit.
Any YouChop user opening that video sees them instantly — it's already chopped and cached. Want everyone to benefit? Copy the timestamps and paste them into the comments, or send them to the creator to add to the description.
It needs the video to have a transcript or captions, which almost all long-form YouTube videos do. Rare videos without any captions can't be chapterized — we'll tell you before spending a credit.
5 free chops · no credit card
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