Turn a YouTube playlist into a course you can actually finish.
Paste a playlist link. Unwatch makes a written lesson for every video, keeps them in order, tracks what you've read, and gives you a tutor that knows the whole series.
A 16-video playlist, as a course.
This is the Forward Deployed Engineer course from Coder Army (16 videos, 16h 41m of video), made into one Unwatch course.
- 1Forward Deployed Engineering Full Course1h 21m video
- 2How LLMs Actually Work? Tokens, Attention & Transformers1h 35m video
- 3Integrating an LLM with Your Application48m video
- 4Build Your First AI Chatbot: Context Window, Memory & Hallucinations59m video
- 5Introduction to AI Agents1h 5m video
Open any lesson and you get the video's content in its own order, with timestamped sections such as 18:43 The production solution: context-augmented generation, plus quizzes and flashcards for that lesson.
From playlist link to course in three steps.
No copy-pasting video by video.
Paste the playlist
Any public YouTube playlist link. Unwatch finds every video and keeps the playlist's order.
Pick Full lesson or Transcript only
A Full lesson also reads what is shown on screen (code, slides, diagrams). Transcript only is made from the speech and uses half your video time.
Learn at your pace
Read lesson by lesson, jump to timestamps, ask the tutor, take the quizzes. Your place in the course is saved.
Why a course beats a playlist.
A playlist is a list of videos. A course is something you can read, search and finish.
Read instead of watching
Every lesson follows its video's order and covers the concepts, examples and warnings. In our tests it took about 60% less time than watching (measured on three lessons of this course).
Search the whole series
Find the lesson where something was mentioned without rewinding a 90-minute video.
A tutor that knows the series
Select any passage and ask for a simpler explanation, an example or a deeper dive. Answers point back to timestamps.
See your progress
Each lesson is marked as read, so you always know where you stopped in a 16-hour series.
Free plan: 2 hours of video a week. Pro and Own Key plans are on the pricing section of the home page. For users aged 18 and over.
Questions, answered.
Does it work with long playlists?
Yes. Each video becomes its own lesson. How much you can add depends on your plan's weekly and monthly video hours, and each video counts once by its length.
Do I need to add the videos one by one?
No. Paste the playlist link once and Unwatch adds the videos for you.
Can I skip videos I already know?
Yes. Lessons are separate, so open only the ones you need. Videos you don't process don't use your hours.
Are the lessons in the same order as the videos?
Yes. Each lesson follows its video from start to end, with timestamps to jump back to the original.
Does it work for private or unlisted playlists?
Public videos and playlists only.
Your playlist, finally finished.
Paste the first link. Your lesson is ready in a few minutes.