Glasp lets you highlight. Milton helps you remember. Active snipping, AI summaries, and a weekly digest that brings your notes back to life. No extension required.
Glasp does one thing well: it lets you highlight text on web pages and share those highlights publicly. But if you are watching a 45-minute deep-dive on YouTube, you don't need a highlighter. You need a way to capture the moments that matter, get AI context around them, and actually revisit your notes later. That is what Milton does.
Glasp highlights text you read. Milton snips moments you choose from videos you watch. Active selection means deeper encoding.
Glasp saves highlights. Then what? Milton sends you a weekly digest email that resurfaces your best notes using spaced repetition.
Glasp requires a Chrome extension. Milton is a web app. Paste a URL. Start snipping. Works on every browser, every device.
Eight features that matter when you are trying to learn from YouTube. Green checks do not lie.
| Feature | Milton | Glasp |
|---|---|---|
| Active video snipping | ✓ | ✕ |
| AI-generated summaries per snip | ✓ | ✕ |
| Weekly digest email | ✓ | ✕ |
| Works without extension | ✓ | ✕ |
| Timestamped notes | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube-first design | ✓ | ✕ |
| Spaced repetition review | ✓ | ✕ |
| Simple flat pricing | ✓ $10/mo | Free + paid tiers |
With Glasp, you drag your cursor over text. It is the digital equivalent of a yellow marker. Feels productive. Rarely is.
Milton flips the model. You are watching a video. Something clicks. You hit "Snip." Milton captures that moment with the exact timestamp, pulls the quote from the transcript, and wraps it in an AI-generated summary.
Why it works: Active selection forces your brain to evaluate what matters. That is how learning actually happens. It is called the generation effect.
You took notes last Tuesday. Do you remember them? Neither does anyone else. Notes are useless if you never see them again.
Every week, Milton emails you a curated summary of your recent snips. Key quotes. Timestamps you can click to jump back. AI-generated takeaways. It also resurfaces older notes based on spaced repetition principles.
Zero competitors do this. Not Glasp. Not Notion. Not Readwise for video. Milton is the only YouTube note-taking app that emails your notes back to you on a schedule.
Glasp needs a Chrome extension. That means one specific browser. That means granting permissions to read your browsing data. That means if you switch to Safari or Firefox or your phone, you are out of luck.
Milton is a web app. You go to miltonapp.co. You paste a YouTube URL. The video loads. You snip. That is it. Works on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, your phone, your tablet, your weird work laptop with extension restrictions.
The best tool is the one you actually use. Extensions add friction. Friction kills habits. Milton removes the friction entirely.
No tiers to decode. No features held hostage. Just one price for everything Milton does.
Everything. No asterisks.
No credit card required. Cancel anytime.
Not yet, but it is on our roadmap. Right now you can start fresh with Milton and begin actively snipping from any YouTube video by pasting the URL. Most users tell us the switch takes about 30 seconds.
Yes. Milton is a standalone web app. You paste a YouTube URL, the video loads inside Milton, and you snip as you watch. No extension to install, no permissions to grant, and it works on any browser or device.
Every week Milton emails you a curated summary of your recent snips -- key quotes, timestamps, and AI-generated takeaways. It uses spaced repetition principles to resurface older notes too. This is how you move from "I watched that once" to "I actually remember that." No other YouTube note-taking tool does this.
Milton is $10/month flat. No tiers, no upsells, no feature gating. You get a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Glasp offers a free tier with limited features and a paid plan, but Milton includes AI summaries, active snipping, and the weekly digest all in one price.