Turn any YouTube video into clickable chapter timestamps — AI reads the transcript and writes a list you can paste straight into YouTube.
watch?v=, youtu.be, Shorts, embed, or the 11-character ID — must point to one video.
YouTube Chapters Generator reads the full transcript of any public YouTube video and writes a clean chapter list — every entry on its own line as 0:00 Chapter title. Click any timestamp to jump the player to that exact moment, or copy the whole list and paste it straight into your YouTube description to enable native chapters.
Use it on your own uploads to skip the manual scrubbing, or on other people's long videos to navigate a 90-minute interview, lecture, or stream that has no official chapters yet. The output respects YouTube's own chapter rules — first entry at 0:00, monotonically increasing — so it pastes in cleanly with no edits.
Built for creators preparing a publish, viewers wrangling long videos, and teams who would rather click than scrub.
Output follows the format YouTube needs — first chapter at 0:00, ascending timestamps — so you can paste the whole list into your video description with no edits.
Every timestamp seeks the player to that moment so you can verify the breaks before publishing — or just navigate someone else's long video.
Chapter breaks come from the actual transcript — what was actually said — not the title or description, so the structure matches the content.
Once a video has chapters they are saved against that ID, so reopening the same link later brings the list back without re-running the AI.
Drop in a YouTube watch URL, Shorts link, youtu.be link, or the 11-character video ID.
Click "Generate Chapters" and the AI reads the transcript and writes timestamp + title pairs in YouTube's expected format.
Click a chapter to jump the player, copy the list to share, or paste it into your video description to enable native chapters on YouTube.
Turn an hour-long upload into a clean chapter list before you publish — no scrubbing the timeline yourself.
Generate chapters for any lecture or tutorial so you can jump to the section you actually need to study.
Add chapter timestamps for every guest, segment, or topic in a multi-hour podcast — for your own show or someone else's.
Drop in the replay of a stream or AMA and get chapter breaks for every meaningful pivot in the conversation.
Watching a long video that has no chapters? Generate them yourself and click through the parts that matter.
Plan a course or playlist by generating chapters for each reference video and using the breakdown as your outline.