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7-day free trial → $100/year. Monthly: $10/month. Auto-renews until cancelled; cancel before day 7 to avoid charges.
Six free preview picks above. The other 24 explainers — and the full 1,860-film archive — open with membership. Resets in 12:50:58.
Plus the full 1,860-film archive, every ranked explainer, and tomorrow's fresh ranking.
7-day free trial → $100/year. Monthly: $10/month. Auto-renews until cancelled; cancel before day 7 to avoid charges.
Every morning the lab pulls dozens of new and classic science explainers and watches them end to end — chemistry, physics, biology, the lot.
We argue, fact-check, and rank the day's thirty by clarity, accuracy, and whether they actually teach something — then crown a #1.
You open Videolab, watch the day's ranked pick, learn one real thing, and get on with your life. Tomorrow at midnight, a fresh ranking.
The internet has more science videos than any human could watch in ten lifetimes. The hard part was never finding one. It was trusting that the one you picked was worth your evening.
We rank thirty explainers a day and show you the one that earned the top spot. No autoplay, no "up next" pulling you under. You watch, you understand, you leave.
Lead curator Marcus Tan and a small team actually watch the films before they rank them. Accuracy and clarity beat production gloss every time.
We favour films that teach a mechanism honestly — including what the science still doesn't know — over thumbnails engineered to keep you scrolling.
No phone calls, no retention maze. Cancel before your trial ends and you're never charged. Membership should be easy to leave, so it's easy to trust.
One ranked top pick a day, drawn from thirty films our team actually watched. Curation is the product.
What's free is free, what needs a membership says so. No hidden redirects, no dark patterns at checkout.
Every explainer credits its maker and country. Submit your own film to [email protected] and a curator watches it.
No autoplay, no infinite scroll, no rabbit holes. We measure success in things understood, not minutes watched.
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I started Videolab because I was tired of losing whole evenings to a feed that never wanted me to leave. Good science films exist, but they drown under thumbnails engineered to keep you scrolling. So we do the opposite. Every morning a small team watches, argues, and ranks a single day's worth of explainers — thirty, no more — then we show you the one that earns the top spot. You watch it, you understand something new, and you close the tab. That's the whole promise. Less time choosing, more time learning. We would rather you spend twelve focused minutes with us than three restless hours anywhere else.
You get 7 days of full access to every ranked explainer and the entire archive. If you cancel before the trial ends, you're never charged. If you keep the membership, it renews automatically at the plan price you selected.
Yes. Beyond the 7-day free trial, we offer a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid charge. Email [email protected] and we'll process it, no interrogation.
Videolab works in any modern web browser on desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone. We don't currently offer native mobile or smart-TV apps, and we won't claim to until we do.
After the 7-day trial, your membership renews automatically at the monthly or annual price you chose, until you cancel. We email you before any annual renewal.
A small team led by founder Marcus Tan watches a batch of science explainers each morning and ranks thirty by clarity, accuracy, and how well they teach. The top film is the day's #1.
Every day at 00:00 in your own local timezone. The countdown on the page shows exactly how long until the next ranking goes live.
Not at this time. Videolab is web-based streaming only. We'd rather not promise offline downloads until the feature actually exists.
Videolab is operated by Katsekoda Digital OÜ, registered in Estonia at Raua tn 8-1, 50104 Tartu, Estonia.
A membership is for one person. We don't offer family or shared plans yet, so please keep your login to yourself.
Checkout runs over an encrypted connection. Payment processing is being connected; until it's live, the checkout shows a neutral setup notice rather than taking real payments.
Yes — we love finding new explainers. Send a link to [email protected] and a curator will actually watch it. We can't promise placement, but every submission is reviewed.
No. The ranking is rebuilt from scratch every day, so today's #1 makes way for a new top pick at midnight. That's the whole point.
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