Comparison
SavedThat vs Eightify
Eightify is great at one job — telling you what a YouTube video is about before you commit to watching it. SavedThat is the opposite: it builds a library of everything you saved so you can find moments later.
Quick verdict
- Choose Eightify if you watch a lot of long YouTube videos and want a fast bullet-point summary panel so you can decide whether to watch the full thing, or skim it without losing the gist.
- Choose SavedThat if you want to save videos — especially Reels and TikToks on your phone — and search inside them weeks or months later by what was said.
Side-by-side
| Feature | SavedThat | Eightify |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Build a searchable library of saved videos | Summarise the YouTube video you're watching right now |
| Content sources | YouTube, Instagram Reels, TikTok | YouTube only |
| Library persistence | Everything you save stays forever, indexed and searchable | Summary lives in the browser panel; no persistent library |
| Mobile | iPhone Share Sheet, Android Share — primary input | Chrome/Edge browser extension (limited mobile support) |
| Reels / TikTok support | Yes, native — primary use case | No — YouTube-only |
| Search across saved videos | Hybrid semantic search across your whole library | No cross-video search — each summary is isolated |
| Languages | 100+ languages, cross-lingual search | English-leaning summaries; supports other languages with quality drop |
| Deep links to moments | Citations jump to the exact second in the video | Timestamp summary with click-to-jump within the video |
| AI features | Per-video Q&A, suggested follow-ups, library-wide chat | Auto-generated bullet summary, chat with the current video |
| Pricing | 7-day free trial, then Pro $7.92/mo or Power $13.59/mo (billed yearly). | Free tier with daily limit. Premium ~$10/mo for unlimited summaries. |
What Eightify does better
Eightify is a focused tool, and focus is its strength. Three things it genuinely does well.
Pre-watch triage on YouTube. You're on a video's page and want to know if the 90 minutes is worth committing. Eightify adds a side panel with a bullet summary, broken into timestamped sections you can jump to. It answers the question «should I watch this?» before you press play, which is a real and frequent need.
Speed of the summary itself. For a typical long-form video, Eightify produces a structured summary in seconds and the summary quality is competitive with anything else in the category. The product has had time to mature and it shows.
Lightweight install. It's one browser extension. There's no account creation ritual, no library to manage, no separate app to learn. If you're an «I just want the answer» user, that's exactly the model Eightify offers.
What SavedThat does better
The two products are aimed at different moments in a user's flow. Eightify is «help me decide right now». SavedThat is «help me find something I saved a month ago». Here's where the SavedThat model wins.
A persistent library, not throwaway summaries. Eightify generates a summary in the moment and you read it and move on. Two months later, when you vaguely remember «I watched something about creatine timing», you can't go back and search across all the summaries you've ever read — they didn't persist. SavedThat saves every spoken word of every video you save, indefinitely.
Reels, TikToks, Shorts are first-class. Eightify is YouTube-only by design. If a meaningful share of what you save is short-form vertical video on your phone, Eightify can't see it. SavedThat catches Reels and TikToks through the mobile share sheet — primary use case, not afterthought.
Cross-video search. The most useful question for an active learner is «what did the three different people I saved say about X?». SavedThat answers that across your whole library in one search. Eightify gives you one summary of one video at a time.
Cross-lingual search. SavedThat uses a multilingual embedding model — you can ask a Russian question and find moments in English videos, or vice versa. Eightify can summarise non-English content, but its quality is best in English.
Mobile share sheet as the save flow. Eightify lives in a desktop browser. SavedThat catches a save the moment you tap Share inside Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Safari on your phone — which is where most saves actually happen for most users.
Choose Eightify if…
- You watch a lot of long YouTube and need pre-watch summaries
- You don't need a persistent library
- YouTube is the only platform you care about
- You work primarily in English
- You want the lightest-weight possible installation
Choose SavedThat if…
- You save videos to find them later, not just to read summaries
- Reels and TikToks are a meaningful share of your saves
- You search across multiple videos at once
- You want cross-language search
- Most of your saves happen on your phone
FAQ
Can I use both?
Sure — Eightify for pre-watch triage on YouTube, SavedThat for saving anything you actually want to find later. They don't overlap operationally.
Does SavedThat give me a bullet summary like Eightify does?
Not as the primary surface. SavedThat optimises for search and Q&A inside the video, not summary panels. Per-video AI summary is on the roadmap but it's not the headline product.
Is SavedThat faster or slower than Eightify for one video?
Eightify is faster for the 'summarise this one video' job — it's built around that single task. SavedThat takes a bit longer to index a new video because it's building a searchable transcript, not just a summary. For repeat / library work, SavedThat wins because the cost is paid once.
Does Eightify support Reels or TikToks?
No. Eightify is YouTube-only. If you save short-form video on your phone, you'll need a different tool — and SavedThat is built for exactly that.
What about privacy and where my data lives?
Both products use third-party LLM APIs to power their AI features. SavedThat stores your library on Supabase (Postgres) and your saves are private. We share index storage across users for popular videos — but who saved what stays private.
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7-day free trial — cancel anytime before it renews. Build a library across Reels, TikToks, Shorts, and YouTube — and search inside everything you saved.
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