Pre-med undergrad
Surviving six 90-minute lectures a week
Sam uploads six weekly bio lectures and gets six 2-page summaries. Instead of re-watching 9 hours of video before the midterm, she skims 12 pages and hits 91%.
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Turn 90-minute lectures into structured, chapter-by-chapter study notes with key concepts, definitions, and one-page takeaways — automatically.
No credit card required · 10 recordings free every month
Chapter 1 · 0:00–18:42
SN1 vs SN2 reaction mechanisms
SN2 = bimolecular, backside attack, inversion. SN1 = carbocation intermediate, racemization, favored by polar protic solvents.
Chapter 2 · 18:42–41:10
E1 & E2 elimination — when does each win?
Strong base + primary/secondary substrate → E2. Weak base + tertiary → E1. Heat favors elimination over substitution.
Key takeaways
AI lecture summarization is the process of taking a long-form audio, video, or transcript and producing a structured set of notes that capture every important idea without the filler. Distill’s summarizer goes further than a generic bullet-point recap — it reads the full transcript, segments it into natural chapters (based on topic shifts, not arbitrary timestamps), and writes a focused summary for each one.
Every summary ships in three zoom levels: a one-page TL;DR for when you need to remember the lecture in 60 seconds, a chapter-by-chapter breakdown for structured study, and a full annotated transcript with highlights for when you want to go deep. Key concepts, definitions, named entities, formulas, and exam-relevant phrases are extracted into a separate panel so nothing important gets buried in prose.
If you’ve ever Googled for an AI note taker, automatic summary generator, or lecture recap tool, this is the version built specifically for students — one that understands your subject, preserves technical vocabulary, and hooks directly into flashcards, quizzes, and concept maps.
Not another note app. A real shortcut from lecture to long-term memory.
Before: Most summarizers give you one long paragraph that’s hard to scan and harder to study from.
With Distill: Distill produces chaptered outlines, bolded key terms, and a separate definitions panel — built for scanning during revision.
Before: Sometimes you need a 60-second recap, sometimes a deep dive. Switching tools mid-study breaks flow.
With Distill: Every lecture gets a TL;DR, a chapter breakdown, and a full annotated transcript — switch zoom levels without leaving the page.
Before: Generic summaries treat every sentence as equally important. Your exam doesn’t.
With Distill: Distill tags the phrases your lecturer emphasized (“this will be on the exam”, repeated ideas, definitions) so you know what actually matters.
From first tap to ready-to-study — a few minutes, max.
Record a live lecture, upload an audio/video file, drag in a YouTube link, or paste a PDF. Distill handles any format.
Our summarization model ingests the full transcript, detects topic boundaries, and segments it into natural chapters.
You get a one-page TL;DR, a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, and an annotated transcript — with key terms extracted on the side.
Export to Markdown, PDF, or Notion — or share a read-only link with classmates.
Distill accepts the messy reality of how students capture lectures — live audio, recorded video, YouTube, and PDFs.
Summarization isn’t a commodity. Here’s how Distill stacks up for students.
| Feature | Koydo Distill | Otter.ai | Notta | AudioPen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapter-level segmentation | ✓ | Paragraphs only | Paragraphs only | — |
| One-page TL;DR | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Annotated full transcript | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Key-term extraction panel | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Exam-intent highlighting | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Accepts PDF slides as input | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Accepts YouTube links | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Auto flashcards from summary | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Paid plan starts at | $6/mo | $8.33/mo | $8.25/mo | $99/yr |
Comparison based on publicly listed features as of 2026. Data sourced from vendor pricing pages.
Here's how different learners put this feature to work.
Pre-med undergrad
Sam uploads six weekly bio lectures and gets six 2-page summaries. Instead of re-watching 9 hours of video before the midterm, she skims 12 pages and hits 91%.
Law student
Kenji’s contracts professor cites 20+ cases per class. Distill’s named-entity extraction pulls every case name, holding, and statute into a dedicated panel — making outline season two weeks shorter.
Remote-learning high schooler
When Ava’s AP Chemistry teacher posts recordings, she drops them into Distill and reads the 5-minute TL;DR on the bus. If anything is unclear, she clicks through to the annotated transcript.
“I was using NotebookLM for summaries and Otter for transcription. Distill replaced both and the chapter breakdowns are actually better than either.”
“The exam-highlight feature is uncanny. It noticed when my prof said ‘pay attention to this’ and flagged those sections. 3 out of 4 showed up on the final.”
“Summaries that respect chapters — finally. No more scrolling through 2,000 words of prose to find the definition of ‘residual income.’”
Typically 2–5 minutes depending on server load. Summaries begin rendering as soon as the transcript is ready and stream in progressively — you don’t have to wait for the whole thing.
Yes. Pick from ‘exam prep’, ‘Cornell notes’, ‘outline’, ‘bulleted’, or ‘narrative’ styles. You can also add custom instructions like ‘focus on pharmacokinetics’ or ‘skip worked examples.’
Yes. Distill renders LaTeX for equations, preserves chemical structures when possible, and keeps numeric data in tables. Equations carry through to Markdown, PDF, and Notion exports.
Summaries are available in 40+ languages. You can also ask Distill to summarize an English lecture in Spanish (or vice versa) for language study or translation.
Distill is purpose-built for lectures — chapter detection, exam-intent highlighting, speaker attribution, and direct export to flashcards/quizzes. General LLMs can summarize but lose structure and don’t hook into the rest of your study workflow.
Yes. Every summary is fully editable in a Markdown editor. Changes save automatically and sync across devices.
Distill is more than ai lecture summaries— it's a whole studio for your lectures.
Real-time lecture capture in 100+ languages feeds directly into your summaries.
Read more →Turn the key concepts from your summary into Anki-ready flashcard decks.
Read more →Visualize how the ideas in each chapter connect — built from the same summary.
Read more →Join thousands of students who stopped re-reading slides and started actually learning.