What 125x is and why it exists

Quick answer

125x is a web app that replaces the YouTube home page and Subscriptions tab with something built for you instead of the algorithm. It builds a feed from your actual subscriptions and puts a summary on every video, so you can get the point of a 40 minute video in seconds and decide if it's worth your time.

What 125x is: 125x is a web app at 125x.app. You connect your YouTube subscriptions, and it gives you a feed of the latest videos from the channels you follow, each with a summary: a verdict, the 5 key takeaways, and the spoiler, plus Actionable and Lessons tabs with more tips. You read that and decide what's actually worth opening.

The name is the promise. An hour of video, read in about 30 seconds. Roughly 125 times faster.

Why it exists

It was built by someone who subscribes to a ton of dating, self improvement, health, fitness, AI, and business creators, and kept feeling the gap between what he meant to learn and what the feed actually fed him. Same subscriptions, same hour, and you couldn't tell anyone a single thing you learned.

So the whole thing is built on one idea. Your attention is the scarce part, so the feed should spend as little of it as possible.

How it works

Sign in with Google and 125x builds your feed from your subscriptions. Open any video and you get a summary. Opening a video takes it out of the feed and puts it in Viewed.

Save anything for later and it syncs to every device. Sessions last 30 days, so you're not logging in every visit.

Open any video in 125x and you get a short brief instead of the player. There's a verdict (watch, skim, or skip) with the reason, 5 key takeaways, the things the video tells you to actually do, the lessons worth keeping, and the spoiler, which is the thing the title and thumbnail are teasing, just said plainly.

Two looks

Dark is the default. There's also a light Ledger theme one tap away in the top bar, with full width thumbnails and full titles, channel names, view counts, and ages. It's the same feed and the same data either way.

Trust

You sign in with Google and 125x asks for one thing, read-only access to YouTube. It can see your subscriptions and video details.

It can't post, comment, like, subscribe, or change anything on your account. Google's Third Party Data Safety team verified the app on Oct 24, 2026.

If you'd rather not connect an account at all, you don't have to. You can import your subscriptions by uploading screenshots of the Subscriptions tab in the YouTube app. 125x reads the channel names, and the screenshots are processed in memory and never stored.

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Who makes it

125x is made by Blake Labs Inc. It's a web app that works in any phone or computer browser, and you can add it to your home screen. It's not made by YouTube or Google.

Questions

Is 125x a phone app?

It's a web app. It works in any mobile browser, and you can add it to your home screen.

Who runs 125x?

Blake Labs Inc.

How do I get in touch?

Email us at [email protected].

125x is a web app at 125x.app that turns your YouTube subscriptions into a feed with a summary on every video, plus Actionable and Lessons tabs with more tips, so you can see what's worth opening before you spend the time.

125x is made by Blake Labs Inc. 125x is not made by YouTube or Google.