About Unwatched
Hi, I'm Jesús Pardillo — a Ph.D. in Computer Science, an Information Systems Engineer, and the person who builds and runs Unwatched.
The story
Unwatched started as a fix for my own problem: my YouTube subscriptions and playlists kept piling up hours of video I would never have time to watch. The interesting ideas were in there, but extracting them meant watching everything at normal speed — or giving up.
So I built a tool that reads instead of watches. Paste a YouTube URL and get the key points in seconds, or let it work in the background: videos from your Unwatched playlist and your subscribed channels get summarized automatically and delivered to your Inbox. The mission is simple — give you back the hours, keep the ideas.
Unwatched is an independent product: no investors, no growth team, no dark patterns. Just one engineer who wants the tool to be worth paying for on its own merits.
How it works
For each video, Unwatched fetches the publicly available transcript and generates a structured summary using third-party AI language models (Google Gemini and/or DeepSeek). Summaries are derivative works intended for your personal reference — they point you back to the videos worth watching in full.
Your transcripts, summaries, and account data are never used to train AI models.
Trust & privacy
We read your YouTube playlists and subscriptions to summarize videos automatically. We never post or modify anything on your YouTube account without your explicit action.
- Write permissions (like, remove from playlist) are optional and requested separately — the default connection is read-only.
- You can delete your account and all associated personal data at any time from your profile.
- Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy as Merchant of Record — Unwatched never sees your card details.
The full details are in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.