# Unfurl > Unfurl turns YouTube videos into transcript-grounded guides with a chat tutor > you can type or talk to, a do-it action plan, a shareable infographic, and > classroom-ready teaching materials — taking learners from passively watching > to actively doing. Unfurl is a web app. You paste a YouTube link (or up to five at once, up to 3 hours combined) and Unfurl transcribes the video, structures it into a navigable guide with chapters and skill levels, and generates the things that make the content usable: a chat tutor grounded in the video's own transcript (typed, or a real-time voice conversation), a SMART action plan of specific, measurable steps you can export and follow, a shareable infographic, and — from the guide's Teach tab — a presentation deck, a quiz, and a one-page handout. Guides are saved to a searchable personal library you can ask questions across, and any guide can be shared with an unlisted link that needs no account to read. Generation typically takes 5–20 minutes; you are emailed when a guide is ready. ## What makes it different - Not a summary: a structured guide you work through, plus answers and actions. - The chat tutor answers from the source transcript, not generic web text — and you can talk to it out loud: tap the mic for a real-time voice conversation, with cited timestamps that seek the embedded player. - Every guide includes a SMART action plan, so knowledge turns into next steps. - The Teach tab turns any guide into teaching materials: a 10–18 slide presentation deck with speaker notes (present in the browser or download as .pptx), an 8–12 question quiz (take it in the browser, or print question and answer-key PDFs), and a one-page handout PDF — each pitched to a chosen audience, from primary school to professional, and each crediting the original creator and linking the source video. - Any guide can be shared with a revocable unlisted link — readers need no account. - Up to five videos can be synthesized into one coherent guide. - Telegram integration: link your account to the Unfurl bot, send it a YouTube link to generate a guide from chat, and get notified when it's ready. ## Pricing Everything runs on credits: a guide costs 2.5 credits per minute of source video; action plans and infographics are a flat 30 credits each; teaching materials are 30 (deck), 20 (quiz) and 10 (handout); voice conversations are 8 credits per minute; chat is 1 credit per message. Unused plan credits roll over (up to a per-plan cap); one-time top-up packs never expire and work with or without a plan. Annual billing gets 2 months free. Cancel any time. - Free 7-day trial: 150 credits, no credit card — enough for your first guide plus its action plan. - Pay as you go (no subscription): 300 credits / $4.99 (≈2 hours of video), 650 / $9.99 (≈4 hours), 2,000 / $27.99 (≈13 hours). - Starter: $9/month (or $90/year), 650 credits/month (≈4 hours of video). - Pro: $19/month (or $190/year), 1,500 credits/month (≈10 hours of video). - Power: $39/month (or $390/year), 3,500 credits/month (≈23 hours of video), queue up to 4 guides at once. ## Use cases - Self-learners turning long talks and tutorials into guided, actionable paths. - Teachers, trainers and creators turning a video into lesson materials — deck, quiz, and handout, pitched to their class's level — and sharing the guide with an unlisted link. - Teams and L&D turning recorded trainings into searchable onboarding. - Researchers and analysts distilling long talks into structured references. ## Live examples (no account needed) - "12 Months of Claude Code Lessons in 45 Minutes" as a guide: https://unfurl.sh/examples/claude-code/ — its teaching materials (deck, quiz, handout): https://unfurl.sh/examples/claude-code/teach.html - "I Built A Business With AI In 24 Hours" as a guide: https://unfurl.sh/examples/make-money-ai/ — teaching materials: https://unfurl.sh/examples/make-money-ai/teach.html - "Watch This For 14 Minutes And You'll Outlearn 99% Of People" as a guide: https://unfurl.sh/examples/outlearn/ — teaching materials: https://unfurl.sh/examples/outlearn/teach.html - "Stop Studying. Start Learning" (Justin Sung, TEDx) as a guide: https://unfurl.sh/examples/example-4/ - "The Single Most Important Parenting Strategy" (Dr. Becky Kennedy, TED) as a guide: https://unfurl.sh/examples/example-5/ - "Essentials: Sleep Toolkit" (Andrew Huberman) as a guide: https://unfurl.sh/examples/example-6/ ## Guides on when and how to use Unfurl - Unfurl vs. YouTube summarizers (honest comparison, including when a summarizer is the better tool): https://unfurl.sh/compare/youtube-summarizers/ - Unfurl vs. AI study tools (honest comparison — study tools are built for exams; Unfurl generates the quiz too, then goes further): https://unfurl.sh/compare/ai-study-tools/ - How to actually learn from YouTube: https://unfurl.sh/use-cases/learn-from-youtube/ - Turn a YouTube video into lesson materials (deck, quiz & handout): https://unfurl.sh/use-cases/youtube-to-lesson-materials/ ## Links - Home: https://unfurl.sh/ - Sign in / start trial: https://unfurl.sh/login.html - Privacy: https://unfurl.sh/privacy.html - Terms: https://unfurl.sh/terms.html