Eightify helps you skip YouTube. Milton helps you learn from it. Active snipping, AI summaries, and a weekly digest that makes sure you actually remember what you watched.
Eightify gives you 8 key points from any YouTube video. It is great for triage — deciding if something is worth your time. But if you actually want to learn from a video, a summary is not enough. Learning requires choosing what matters, saving it, and revisiting it. That is what Milton does.
Eightify is designed to help you skip videos faster. Milton is designed to help you learn from videos deeper. Different goals, different tools.
Eightify generates a summary and that is it. Milton saves every snip to a searchable library. Your notes are always there when you need them.
Eightify has zero retention features. Milton emails you a weekly digest of your notes — recent ones plus older ones resurfaced. Learning that sticks.
Eight features that matter when you are trying to learn from YouTube. Green checks do not lie.
| Feature | Milton | Eightify |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Learn from videos | Skip videos faster |
| Active capture | ✓ you choose what to snip | ✕ AI chooses 8 points |
| Note library | ✓ searchable, organized | ✕ |
| Weekly digest email | ✓ | ✕ |
| Works without extension | ✓ | ✕ Chrome extension only |
| Pricing | $10/mo flat | Free (3 lifetime) + paid |
| Browser support | Any browser, any device | Chrome only |
| Retention features | ✓ weekly email + spaced repetition | ✕ |
Eightify runs an AI over the transcript and picks 8 key points for you. It is fast. It is convenient. But it is also someone else deciding what matters in a video you are trying to learn from.
Milton lets you make that call. You are watching. Something clicks. You hit Snip. Milton captures that moment — timestamp, transcript quote, AI-generated summary. The act of choosing is what makes the difference.
This is the generation effect in action. When you actively decide what matters, your brain encodes it more deeply. Passive summaries skip that step entirely.
Eightify shows you a summary. You read it. You close the tab. Where did it go? Nowhere. There is no library, no search, no way to find that insight three weeks later.
Milton saves every snip to your personal library. Organized by video. Fully searchable. Need to find that thing about compounding returns from a video you watched last month? Search for it. It is there.
Your notes should outlive the tab you took them in. Milton makes sure they do.
Even if you save notes somewhere, you probably never look at them again. Be honest. The gap between "I saved it" and "I learned it" is enormous.
Milton closes that gap. Every week you get an email with your recent snips — key quotes, timestamps you can click, AI-generated takeaways. It also resurfaces older notes based on spaced repetition. You do not have to remember to review. The review comes to you.
No other YouTube tool does this. Not Eightify. Not Glasp. Not Notion. Milton is the only YouTube note-taking app with a built-in retention loop.
No tiers to decode. No features held hostage. Just one price for everything Milton does.
Everything. No asterisks.
No credit card required. Cancel anytime.
Milton generates AI summaries, but only for the moments you choose to snip — not the entire video. The difference matters: Eightify summarizes so you can skip. Milton summarizes so you can learn. You stay in control of what gets captured.
You need a free account to save your snips and receive the weekly digest. Signing up takes under 30 seconds — just an email. No credit card required for the 7-day trial.
They solve different problems. Eightify helps you decide if a video is worth watching. Milton helps you learn from videos you have decided to watch. If you want summaries to skip content, use Eightify. If you want to actually retain what you watch, use Milton.
No. Milton is a web app. Paste a YouTube URL and start snipping. Works on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, mobile — any browser, any device. No extension to install or maintain.
Your snips are saved to your personal library — searchable, organized by video. Every week Milton emails you a digest of your recent notes plus older ones resurfaced via spaced repetition. Your notes actually come back to you.