Headwater

Your YouTube channels, summarized every morning.

Most YouTube summarizers give you bullet points. Headwater gives you the argument.

Headwater is a YouTube channel summarizer. You follow channels, it reads each new video, and it emails you one morning digest. Each summary is a complete account of the video's argument in Headwater's own words: every key claim and the reasoning behind it, the topics with timestamps, the speaker's exact quotes, and a flag when the title oversells what the video delivers. Read the argument, watch what's worth it.

• Follow any YouTube channel by handle or URL. No Google account needed.
• One email a day, ordered the way you rank your channels. Nothing else lands in your inbox.
• Read summaries in the app, or on an e-ink reader over an OPDS catalog. Headwater Edition is free firmware that turns an Xteink X3 or X4 into a one-button Headwater reader.
• Paste any YouTube link and get the same summary on demand, no account needed. Many people meet Headwater that way first.
• Summaries are written in Headwater's own words and link back to the video. They are a way to decide what to watch, not a replacement for watching.
• First-party, cookieless analytics. No tracking pixel, no third-party trackers.
• Free while in beta. No card.

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