Sovereign Research Tool for Privacy-Conscious Individuals

Permissionless Research & Data Sovereignty

No cloud, no trace, no data tax. Your research pipeline is nobody's business.

Your research, your hardware, your rules. Ditto is the permissionless transcript extractor built for researchers, security professionals, and individuals who demand absolute data sovereignty. Extract transcripts locally, process with local AI, and store in encrypted vaults. No account registration, no cloud dependency, no corporate surveillance of your intellectual interests.

Add to Browser — It's Free MIT Licensed. Open Source. Zero Cloud Dependency.

Pierce the digital veil. Extract from any platform with captions.

The Sovereign Workflow

From permissionless capture to encrypted storage—your data never leaves your hardware.

1.

Permissionless capture from

Capture data from the entire web. From public forums like YouTube and Rumble to private course portals you've already purchased. Ditto pierces the digital veil without asking for permission.

YouTube
Udemy
Coursera
Kajabi
Rumble
Teachable
Extract from any platform—no API keys, no rate limits, no surveillance
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Private extraction

Clean your data locally. Ditto intelligently strips out timecode noise and reconstructs paragraphs in your browser tab. No server requests, no digital footprint.

00:01:23 The security implications of 00:01:26 centralized data storage are 00:01:28 fundamentally incompatible with 00:01:31 individual sovereignty so let's 00:01:34 examine the local-first alternative...

The security implications of centralized data storage are fundamentally incompatible with individual sovereignty.

Let's examine the local-first alternative...

Local Processing Engine—Zero Network Requests
3.

Secure Synthesis

Process and protect. Feed your clean transcripts into local LLMs like Ollama or PrivateGPT for synthesis. Store your final assets in encrypted vaults or local Markdown files. Your knowledge remains under your physical control.

Your knowledge vault—encrypted, local, sovereign

The Sovereign Edge

Why security-conscious researchers choose Ditto.

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Permissionless & Forkable

Ditto is MIT-licensed and open-source. If the developer disappears, the tool remains yours. Fork it, audit it, own it. No vendor lock-in, no subscription dependency, no single point of failure in your research infrastructure.

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Zero Data Tax

Stop trading your research history for "free" cloud services. Ditto has no account registration and no data harvesting. Your identity and your interests are invisible to the corporate web. What you research is nobody's business but yours.

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Local-First Architecture

Extraction, formatting, and synthesis happen on your hardware. By removing the third-party middleman, you remove the single point of failure in your research pipeline. No cloud outages, no API deprecations, no terms of service changes.

Add to Browser — It's Free

Pierce Any Digital Veil

Ditto works wherever there are captions—no exceptions.

YouTube

Extract transcripts from any YouTube video with captions. Public lectures, conference talks, documentary research—all captured locally.

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Rumble

Access content that lives outside mainstream platforms. Ditto extracts transcripts from Rumble's VTT tracks with full accuracy.

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Udemy

Extract transcripts from courses you've purchased. Your paid content, your extracted knowledge, your local storage.

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Private Portals

Ditto's heuristic engine works on Teachable, Kajabi, Coursera, and most platforms with embedded video players and VTT tracks.

All Platforms

Need Support for a Specific Platform?

Ditto is open-source and community-driven. If you encounter a platform where extraction fails, open a GitHub issue or submit a pull request. Audit the code yourself—transparency is a feature, not a bug.

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