PeekaTube for Students
Spend less time watching, more time understanding. PeekaTube summarizes any YouTube lecture, tutorial, or course video in about seven seconds — with timestamps, exportable transcripts, and integrated comment analysis that surfaces corrections and study tips from fellow students.
The student YouTube problem
A typical CS course on YouTube is 30+ hours of lectures. A semester of MIT OCW, Andrej Karpathy's Zero-to-Hero, or Stanford CS231n is dozens of multi-hour videos. Watching at 2x still costs 15 hours, and you have no searchable notes when you need to revisit Chapter 4 the night before an exam. PeekaTube is the missing layer between watching and remembering: a per-video summary you can search, export, and annotate.
How students use PeekaTube
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Pre-watch triage
Before committing 90 minutes to a lecture, generate a summary in seven seconds and decide if you need the full video or just the key sections. Skip filler intros, sponsor reads, and tangents.
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Active note capture
Watch the video alongside the timestamped summary. Click any timestamp to jump straight to that moment. Export the transcript and summary together as markdown into Obsidian, Notion, or your study notes folder.
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Exam-night search
Three weeks later when the topic re-surfaces, search your notes folder for the keyword. Your exported PeekaTube summaries make the entire semester's video material text-searchable — something raw video lectures will never be.
Features that matter for studying
Comment analysis catches lecturer corrections that earlier students flagged. Multilingual output lets you study an English lecture in your native language for faster reading. Export to markdown plays nicely with every popular note-taking system. The free trial covers three lectures so you can validate the workflow before subscribing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can PeekaTube handle 2+ hour lecture videos?
Yes. PeekaTube processes videos of any length — there's no maximum duration. Long-form content (90+ minute lectures, multi-hour Karpathy walkthroughs) is exactly the use case the tool is optimized for; short videos arguably don't need a summary at all.
Is there a student discount?
Pro is already $5.99/month or $29.99/year (~$2.50/month annualized — about the price of one coffee). We don't run a separate student tier because the annual plan is already cheaper than every per-student plan we've seen in the category.
Will PeekaTube help me cheat on exams?
No, and that's not the goal. PeekaTube replaces passive watching with active note-taking — the exact opposite of cheating. Students who use it report better retention because they're reading and reviewing summaries instead of zoning out at 2x speed.