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A new perspective on YouTube

A universe
behind every
channel.

See what a channel is made of. Follow its evolution. Find the videos that matter.

Free to install · Free plan available · Optional Pro subscription

English Channel X-Ray for Kurzgesagt, showing its Channel Soul profile and topic view shares.
A channel, in perspective.Find its centre of gravity.
01 / Understand the wholeThe channel
Creator Big Bang

A decade of ideas. One expanding story.

From the first upload to the latest, the whole channel unfolds into a walkable timeline gallery: stroll through it chapter by chapter, pause at each era's signature videos, and see exactly how the channel became what it is today.

Creator Big Bang for Veritasium: an expanding star-field universe of its 2010–2026 history, with a timeline and representative video.
Channel X-Ray

See through an entire channel at a glance

Before you subscribe, take an X-ray: what the channel's soul is made of, how its topics are distributed, whether the numbers hold up, which videos carry the views, how its direction evolved — then let the video library filter out the few worth watching first.

Kurzgesagt Channel X-Ray overview, with a channel profile and a colored flow chart of its topic mix.
02 / Look a little closerSummary & comment insights

The video. The ideas. The people.

Summary & mind map

Video summaries that grow into mind maps

Chapters, description, and content get distilled into structured knowledge nodes. You don't get a wall of text — you get a map with visible context, and every node links back to the original moment in the video.

Viewpoint distillation

Thousands of comments, distilled into a few camps

The comment section stops being noise. Support, doubt, corrections, first-hand experience — each camp is laid out separately, and the most valuable voices float to the top.

03 / Follow your curiosityKnowledge exploration

Your next idea is already out there.

Channel Galaxy Studio

A thousand videos, organized into topic clusters and learning paths

The channel's videos are laid out as a night sky: same-topic videos cluster into constellations, brightness tracks popularity. Pick a goal — “I want to understand why those giants suddenly collapsed” — and it draws a stop-by-stop viewing path you can simply follow.

Veritasium Channel Galaxy Studio mapping 449 videos into eight colored topic clusters, with topics on the left and 16 learning paths on the right.
Channel World Map

Every place the channel has covered, pinned on one world map

See a channel's work on a world map: everywhere it has been, everything it has covered, the places it keeps coming back to — at a glance.

Veritasium Channel World Map in Globe view, with video locations pinned on a dark blue Earth and a linked-place and video list.
Channel galaxy

The world's best channels, mapped as a galaxy

Top channels from every field, gathered into a roamable star map — sorted by knowledge domain and graded by influence tier — so you can spot creators worth following and unearth hidden-gem channels at a glance.

Channel Galaxy plots featured YouTube channels as a roamable star map, grouped by knowledge domain and graded by influence tier.
Subscription library

Hundreds of subscriptions, finally organized

Lay every subscription out as one searchable library: pin the ones you watch most, star favorites, sort channels into groups of your own, and order them by how often you actually watch. Organization and viewing stats stay on your device — your subscriptions themselves are never changed.

Subscription library window listing 401 subscribed channels as cards, with search, frequently-watched sorting, pins, favorites, and groups.
Knowledge topologies

32 knowledge topologies — the right one, chosen automatically

History becomes a timeline, product battles become a tournament bracket, controversies get dissected into argument structures. Different content gets a different shape of knowledge — not one-size-fits-all bullet points.

Explore · Expand the context

One topic branches into a whole web to explore

Start from any concept and follow it outward — into supporting takes, counterpoints, origins, and hands-on angles. A single video becomes an exploration map you can keep wandering, and everything you generate lives in your portal gallery and vault to revisit and share.

Explore the context dialog with five cards offering different angles on shade balls, and the current learning path along the bottom.
Knowledge constellation

The more you explore, the brighter your sky gets

Every context you expand and every video you understand lights up another star on your map. The ones you've visited turn “explored”, the ones you've truly mastered turn “mastered”, and over time they link into a constellation that's yours alone.

Personal Knowledge Constellation 3D star map linking explored and mastered topics into constellations, with a Micro-universes cluster panel.
How it works

Three steps from video to map

Install the extension

Free to install — takes a minute.

Open any YouTube video

No tab-switching — the panel appears right next to the video.

Generate your knowledge map in one click

It syncs to your vault automatically — revisit and share anytime.

FAQ

Good questions. Clear answers.

Does it cost anything?

The extension is free to install and a Free plan is available. Pro is an optional paid subscription; see the public pricing page for the current offer.

Which languages are supported?

Seven languages: Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, and Hindi.

Where does it run?

Right inside the YouTube page — no tab-switching, no copy-pasting links.

Does it download or redistribute YouTube videos?

No. Human Highlight is a research and knowledge-mapping tool, not a video downloader or ripper. It does not download, host, or redistribute video files, and it does not bypass YouTube access controls.

Get started

Let curiosity find its orbit.

Free to install · Free plan available · Optional Pro subscription