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CLUSTER NARRATED-VIDEO-WEB · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-14

Document-to-video lecture apps

This cluster consists of web apps that transform prompts, PDFs, or documents into narrated educational videos with animated visuals. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only three dated entries prior to the index start. Among the traction leaders, Explainer-AI shows the highest activity signal with two stars, while Probso and generative have none.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2014: 1APR 2022: 1OCT 2025: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 5
SEP 2014OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 5 hobby · 1 indie · 3 open source · 4 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01planbrief0★today—Web tool that converts request-for-proposal documents into a narrated, verified video walkthrough with a written summary brief.
  2. 02Probso0★25 days—indieWeb app that turns uploaded PDFs into narrated, animated video lectures for people studying dense material.
  3. 03passador0★1 day—ai-builthobbyWeb app for managing and controlling slides, PDFs, videos, and audio during presentations.
  4. 04EXTRACTppT0★4 days—Web app that extracts presentation slides from YouTube lecture videos and compiles them into a PDF document.
  5. 05unfold0★7 days—hobbyA tool that converts a research paper into a narrated animated explainer video in the style of 3Blue1Brown, with storyboard and interactive transcript.
  6. 06generative0★18 days—hobbyWeb app that turns any prompt, PDF, or document into a narrated educational video with animated visuals.
  7. 07BG0★7 days—hobbyWeb app that converts instruction documents into numbered steps translated into four Indian languages and generates animated videos for each step.
  8. 081showcase1★1 mo—open sourceDesktop app that records a click-through of a product and turns it into an annotated, narrated walkthrough exportable as video, slides, or a shareable guide.
  9. 09video_ai0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyWeb app that converts uploaded documents into narrated video slideshows with synthesized speech.
  10. 10python-pdf2video0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceConverts PDF presentation slides into video files for playback.
  11. 11pdf-page-player0★1 yrstale—ai-builtWeb tool that plays through the pages of a PDF document like a slideshow presentation.
  12. 12slideextract0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceExtracts presentation slides from video recordings, allowing users to capture and review slide content.
  13. 13SmartSlides0★unknownliveTool that converts PowerPoint slides into a video lecture.

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