Catch up on YouTube
without watching.
Just the sauce.
Hover any thumbnail, hit 🍅 Get the sauce, and read the whole video in 30 seconds — the claims, the numbers, the steps. Every squeeze lands in your searchable Pantry.
Add Ketchup to Chrome — free 5 free squeezes a day, no account needed. Sign in free and everything doubles.See it in action
Hover the video — just like on YouTube — Tap the video and hit 🍅 Get the sauce. This is exactly what the extension does, simulated right here.
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School teaches you jobs make money, sales are sleazy, and formal training is required — all beliefs that drastically cap your earning potential.
Key points- ✓Stop viewing money as job-dependent; create and capture value via freelance, business, or product sales.
- ✓Reframe sales as helping, not exploiting; make offers without guilt.
- ✓Teach yourself high-income skills (sales, coding, marketing) via free online resources on weekends.
Worth the watchAli crystallizes four psychological barriers to earning with concrete reframes and examples; the framework reshapes how viewers think about money-making itself.
How it works
Anywhere on a video card on YouTube. A 🍅 chip appears. Videos with no captions say so up front.
One click. Ketchup reads the transcript and hands you the actual substance in bullet points — never a vague "this video discusses…".
Every squeeze is saved and searchable. A text library of everything you never had to watch.
Fresh from the Pantry
Hand-picked videos, already squeezed — read them exactly like the extension shows them.
Pricing
Free
- 5 squeezes/day (25/mo), no account
- Double it signed in: 10/day, 50/mo
- Your own Pantry
- Already-squeezed videos never count
Extra Sauce
- 100 squeezes/day
- 2,500/month
- More than any human clicking thumbnails needs
Sauce Boss
- 300 squeezes/day
- 6,000/month
- For people who use it like a research tool
Why not just watch?
Because you're in a meeting. Because it's a 40-minute video with 4 minutes of substance. Because the algorithm keeps showing you things you're curious about, and watch time is the price it wants. Ketchup extracts the information and skips the performance — no watch time, just the sauce.
Questions, answered
How do I summarize a YouTube video without watching it?
Install Ketchup, hover any video on YouTube, and click the 🍅 Get the sauce chip. In a few seconds you get the whole video as a 30-second read: numbered key points, the concrete stats the video states, any action steps it prescribes, and an honest watch / skim / skip verdict. No need to open the video at all.
Is Ketchup free?
Yes — 5 free squeezes a day (25 a month) with no account at all. Sign in free with Google and everything doubles: 10 a day, 50 a month, plus your searchable Pantry. Heavy users can upgrade to Extra Sauce ($4.99/mo, 100 a day). Videos anyone has already squeezed are instant and never count against your limits.
Does it work on lectures and podcasts?
Yes — anything on YouTube with captions: lectures, podcast episodes, tutorials, business breakdowns, news commentary. Idea-heavy content is where a summary carries the most value, and the verdict tells you honestly when the visuals mean you should still watch.
What if a video has no captions?
Ketchup checks up front — the chip shows "No sauce" on videos without captions, so you never waste a squeeze. The vast majority of popular videos have captions.
Is this the same as YouTube's built-in AI summary?
No. Ketchup is an independent extension that works from the thumbnail — on the homepage, search results, and subscriptions — before you ever open a video. It gives you a structured, componentized read with a verdict, and saves everything to a library you can search later.
How is Ketchup different from other summarizer extensions?
Most tools summarize a video you've already opened. Ketchup works one step earlier, at the thumbnail, so it answers the real question: is this worth my time? It's also honest by design — "skip" is the happy verdict — and the free tier needs no sign-up.