YouTube Learning Library
Turn YouTube into your own focused learning library
YouTube's feed is built to keep you watching, not to get you through a subject. YouTube Learning Library puts you back in charge. Save the videos you actually want to learn from, sort them into playlists by topic, follow the subjects and hashtags you care about, and watch in a clean space with nothing pulling you sideways.
Free with ads, and the free account keeps your library. Ad-free Plus is $3 a month, or $24 a year.
Every screen in the app
4 views. Pick one from the rail.
Use the left and right arrow keys, or swipe on the screenshot.
Who it's for
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People teaching themselves something hard
You have three playlists started and none of them finished. Here you pick what you are learning, put it on a shelf by topic, and come back to it, instead of taking whatever the feed hands you next.
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Students and anyone working through a subject
A subject goes down easier when the material sits in an order you can walk. Group videos into playlists by topic, keep notes against the moment in the video they came from, and pick up where you stopped.
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People who want the hours to count
Watching feels like studying until you check what stuck. Set a daily goal, keep a streak going, and see where you land on Top Learners, so the time reads as progress instead of an evening gone.
Use cases
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Build a shelf for what you are learning
Save any video or playlist and file it under a topic. Something like system design or Spanish becomes its own list you return to, not forty tabs you meant to get back to.
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Watch without getting pulled sideways
No autoplay into the next thing, no clickbait rail, no Shorts. Just the video you chose, in a layout made for studying rather than for keeping you on the page.
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Find good videos from people, not the feed
Discover is a shared library where every entry was added by a person and filed under one of 15 topics, with hashtag pages under each. Sort by top or newest, and follow the tags you care about so new material comes in on your interests.
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Keep notes where they belong
Write notes beside the player and each one saves at the point in the video it came from. Come back a week later and land on the exact moment instead of scrubbing to find it. Your notes are private to you.
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See the hours add up
Time spent watching counts toward a daily goal and a streak, and Top Learners ranks by topic and by today, this week, or all time. It gives you a reason to come back tomorrow.
Features
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First-Party Intent Curation
Filters and weights discovery based on user playlists, ratings (my_rating), and comments (my_comment).
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Automated OAuth Ingestion
Connects via OAuth 2.0 and YouTube Data API v3 to pull private account playlists and history.
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NPM-Based Transcript Extraction
Fetches full transcripts via youtube-transcript with frontmatter-fallback transcript note creation.
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Structured Obsidian Vault Exports
Generates structured markdown notes with detailed frontmatter metadata saved in organized course directories.