What people use Claras for

Which one do you need? A short guide

Every page here is the same few tools pointed at a different job: a transcript, a summary with chapters, a chat that answers from what was said, and ways to take the text elsewhere. The quickest way to pick a page is to start from what you have in front of you.

You have a YouTube link

For a single talk, tutorial or interview, start with turning a YouTube video into notes. It walks through the summary, chapters and transcript, and how to move them into your notes app. If the video is a lecture, or one of a series you're studying from, the lecture page covers what changes for long, dense videos. If it's in a language you don't speak, see following a video in English, which is clear about what gets translated and what doesn't.

You have a whole playlist or a search page

Bulk Summaries reads many videos together and writes one combined summary or one per video. The free plan includes one run of up to 20 videos. It takes public playlists and YouTube search pages, not channel pages.

You have an Instagram or TikTok link

Start with the free tools if you only need the words of a short clip: the Instagram transcript tool and the TikTok transcript tool take public videos up to 3 minutes with no account. For a summary, a chat and longer videos, up to 30 minutes, see summarizing Instagram videos or summarizing TikToks.

You have your own recording

Meetings, interviews, classes and voice notes go in as files, up to 6 hours each. Transcribing your recordings explains what happens to the file, what it costs in transcription hours, and when a free tool will do instead. Sales teams with recorded calls have their own page.

You want to keep what you learn

If you're collecting notes from many videos over months, building a personal knowledge base shows how to store and organize them.

You're researching for work

The business pages use the same tools on other people's videos: pulling what matters from a competitor's videos, summarizing video reviews of a product, mining a playlist for content ideas and reusing one video in other formats.

What every use case has in common

• An account from the start. It's free and needs no card. The free plan covers 3 videos a month.
• Videos and hours are counted separately. Every analysis counts as one video. Uploaded files and Instagram or TikTok links also use transcription hours: 1 on the free plan, 10 on Pro and 100 on Unlimited, over a rolling 30 days. YouTube videos with captions use no hours.
• Summaries in 15 languages. The summary, chapters and answers follow the language you pick. The transcript stays in its own language.
• Spoken words only. Claras works from what is said. Slides, on-screen text and images aren't in the transcript unless someone reads them out.
• AI can be wrong. Every page tells you how to check a point against the source, and it's worth doing for anything that matters.

When Claras isn't the right tool

Claras doesn't join meetings or transcribe live, so for live captions in a call you need a meeting tool. Its transcripts have no speaker names. It doesn't make translated subtitles or dubbed audio, and it can't read videos behind a login, like a paid course or a school portal, unless you can download the file. If one of those is your main need, another tool will serve you better.

Not sure where to start? Try one video on the free plan, or compare the plans first.