NoteGPT summarises video and documents. YouTubeScribe extracts the caption track first, then offers summaries as a second pass.
Reviewed 17 August 2026. We make YouTubeScribe.
Use NoteGPT when you want a summary, slides, or a quiz and you do not care about owning the timed caption file. Use YouTubeScribe when the transcript is the product, and summaries are optional.
| Point | YouTubeScribe | NoteGPT |
|---|---|---|
| First result | Full timestamped transcript | Summary and notes, with a transcript attached |
| Timed SRT | Free, timings left as YouTube sent them | Secondary to the AI note |
| Account | Not required for the first transcript | Required once you leave the teaser and want exports |
| Speech when no captions exist | We say there is no track. We do not invent one. | AI features may still draft notes from available media, depending on the video |
| Metadata tools | Tags, thumbnails, comments, chapters, calculators | Not the product. NoteGPT stays on notes and study aids. |
| Paid plan, as of August 2026 | Transcripts free and unlimited. AI plans $4.99 or $12.99 a month. | See notegpt.io. Credits and seat plans change often. |
YouTubeScribe's free path is extraction. YouTube already has a caption track. We request it, clean repeated words and broken cues, and hand you the text. That is why a miss is possible, and why a hit is fast.
NoteGPT's path is generation. The transcript is input for summaries, mind maps, and questions. That is useful when you will not read the hour. It is the wrong default when you need a file that still lines up with the player.
If YouTube never built a track, YouTubeScribe stops. We will not ship an empty SRT or a guessed script on the free extractor.
A notes product may still try to help, because its job is a page of study material. Read the output as a draft, not as the speaker's words.
This comparison is published by the maker of YouTubeScribe. Notes were checked on public marketing and help pages on 17 August 2026. We do not run NoteGPT's billing, and we do not list a price we have not verified on their checkout.
Yes, on Pro. The summary is a second pass over a transcript you can also download. The free tool stops at the transcript.
NoteGPT if you want quizzes and condensed notes. YouTubeScribe if you want to search the lecture as text and jump by timestamp.
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