Vid Receipts help center
Learn how to use Vid Receipts, pin timestamped receipts to YouTube videos, collaborate on feeds, and more.
Welcome to the Vid Receipts help center
Vid Receipts is a collaborative platform for adding timestamped, rich-text annotations to YouTube videos. Pin your insights to specific moments, share them with your team or the world, and build a verifiable knowledge layer on top of any video.
Whether you're fact-checking claims, studying lecture content, or collaborating on video research, this help center has everything you need.
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New here? Start with the basics
- Create your account: Sign up in seconds with Google
- Create your first receipt: Add your first annotation in under a minute
- Find your way around the app: Learn the key areas of the interface
Popular guides
| Guide | What you'll learn |
|---|---|
| Create a receipt | Write, format, and save annotations on any YouTube video |
| Feed types | Public, private, draft, and custom feeds explained |
| Feed sharing and access | Invites, permission levels, the access picker, and sharing with a group |
| Roles and permissions | What each role (Owner, Admin, Contributor, and more) can do |
| Switch between personas | Post under different identities for different contexts |
Browse by topic
- Getting started: Account setup, first receipt, app navigation
- How-to guides: Short answers to the tasks people ask about most
- Receipts: Create, edit, vote, comment, and manage annotations
- Feeds: Organize receipts into feeds and share them
- Playlists & play queue: Build playlists, bring YouTube ones across, and queue videos up
- Watch Along: Watch together, chat, talk, and ride along
- Collaboration: Teams, groups, roles, and permissions
- Personas: Create and manage different posting identities
- Browser extension: A YouTube companion side panel for reading and posting receipts
- Account & billing: Settings, YouTube connection, subscription plans
- Frequently asked questions: Answers to common questions
Related
Getting started
Start pinning timestamped receipts to YouTube videos, account setup, your first annotation, and a tour of the interface.
Receipts
Learn how to create, manage, and interact with timestamped receipts, rich-text annotations pinned to specific moments in YouTube videos.
Feeds
Feeds organize your timestamped receipts into shareable collections you can collaborate on across any YouTube video.
Collaboration
Share feeds, manage roles, and collaborate on timestamped receipts with your team.
Account & billing
Manage your Vid Receipts account, settings, personas, and subscription plan.
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