Extract the essence

There's more great content on YouTube than anyone has time to watch. Seimai gives you the essence in minutes, lets you save the ideas worth keeping, and helps you discover more videos through what others have found.

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Summaries

Read first. Watch what matters.

Decide what's worth your time.

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A 3:03:33 video is a big ask. A 9:54 read is easy. Skim first — then watch what catches your attention, with the time to actually do it.

Structured to scan, detailed enough to learn.

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Every summary is organized into sections you can scan at a glance. Read just the headlines to get the picture, expand a section when something catches your interest, or dive into the full detail in the YouTube video. You choose how deep to go.

Follow more channels. Never miss what they publish.

Add your favourite YouTube channels and Seimai does the rest. Every time a new video is published, it gets summarized to your preferences and delivered to your feed.

No need to check back, no need to decide what to watch. The ideas come to you.

Subscribed channels list

Follow every source. Spot what stands out.

Multiple channels cover the same stories with overlapping takes. Instead of watching each one, get the core ideas from all of them — and quickly spot where sources diverge or add something unique.

News and finance video summaries

Go deeper when something sparks.

A summary gives you the picture. But sometimes an idea catches your attention and you want more — context, nuance, the speaker's exact argument.

Ask the integrated AI agent anything about the video. It knows the full transcript and can search the web for additional context. The summary is the starting point, not the ceiling.

AI chat about a video

From quick scan to full lecture — your call.

Lecture video summaries

Read in your own language.

Seimai translates every summary into your language — Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi.

The video stays in its original form. You get the ideas in the language you think in best.

Summary translated into Chinese

Knowledge base

Save the ideas worth keeping.

Highlight as you read.

Select any sentence that resonates and save it as a private note in one tap. Add your commentary to capture your own thoughts.

Auto-categorised. Searchable.

Notes get organised by topic automatically. Your library grows with you — every saved idea easy to find months later.

My Notes library

Share what you've found.

Toggle a note public and it joins the shared feed. Your discoveries become someone else's starting point.

Discover

A curated trail through hidden gems inside YouTube videos, picked by readers like you.

A feed of what people are sharing notes of.

Browse public notes from other readers. The quotes they pick are signal — a quick way to find videos you wouldn't have found on your own.

Shared notes feed

Always linked to the source

Every note jumps back to the source. Read the summary for context or watch the video for a deep dive.

Follow taste, not just channels.

When someone's picks consistently resonate, follow them. Their next highlight lands in your feed — a curated trail through people whose judgement you trust.

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精米

Why Seimai

Seimai (精米) is the Japanese art of polishing rice for premium sake production — removing the outer layers to extract the essence within. We do the same: distill the hours into ideas, save the ones that matter the most to you, discover the ones that others considered worth sharing.