Foval, accessible at usefocal.xyz, is a tool designed to evaluate YouTube video content before a user commits time to watching. Its primary function is to analyze the full transcript of a video, rather than just the title or thumbnail, and provide a verdict of Watch, Skim, or Skip. This verdict is accompanied by a density score, key moments with timestamps, and a summary of the video's actual content. The tool is built to help users, particularly those with limited time or attention difficulties, decide quickly whether a video is worth their time. The main features of Foval include a browser extension available for Chrome and Firefox that captures transcripts directly from the page, even for videos that block caption downloads. Users can also connect Foval to AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, or OpenClaw to triage feeds or research topics, and it integrates with Notion to auto-push summaries, verdicts, gist, key moments, and action items. The free tier offers five verdicts per day, access to six built-in lenses (which allow users to specify what they are looking for, such as usefulness for a particular task), a seven-day history, and shareable summary links. The paid tier, Focus, removes the daily limit and adds unlimited custom lenses, action items, bulk export in CSV and JSON, Markdown export, priority processing, and unlimited history and stats. Typical use cases involve pasting a YouTube link into Foval to receive an instant analysis, or using the browser extension to get a verdict upon landing on a video page. Users can apply different lenses to tailor the analysis to their specific needs, such as evaluating a video for research, entertainment, or learning. The workflow is straightforward: the tool processes the video's captions, generates a verdict and summary, and presents the information in seconds. Foval works on any YouTube video that has captions, whether auto-generated or manual, and will indicate if a video lacks captions and cannot be analyzed. Summaries are cached for instant repeat lookups.