Cruxly Review: What the Service Actually Does
A rundown from the team that builds it, with specific numbers instead of vague claims, so there's something you can actually go check.
A review written by the team behind a product isn't the same thing as an independent one, and that's worth saying upfront. What the team does have is something a third-party blog doesn't: exact numbers on how the service works under the hood. Here's a concrete rundown, skipping the "convenient" and "fast" filler: what actually happens to a file from upload to result, what it costs, and what you can go check yourself in a couple of minutes.
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What the service does
A YouTube link or an uploaded PDF turns into a structured breakdown: an overview, a section split, key points and figures. Video also gets a verbatim transcript split by speaker turns, recognized from the audio track when there are no captions. Contracts get a dedicated mode that works through the document clause by clause: verbatim text, a plain-language restatement, a category, and a severity marker. A chat grounded in the source material opens after the breakdown. All of it is one subscription and one quota.
How the chat actually works
This isn't a chat that answers from general knowledge about the topic. The chat searches by meaning, not exact wording: a query about "termination" finds the clause about "discharge of obligations" even though not one word matched. The model holds recent messages of the conversation in memory, so follow-up questions work without restating context every time.
Contracts are switched on manually, not detected automatically
Worth being exact here, because it's easy to promise more than the service does. Contract mode doesn't turn itself on — the service doesn't "recognize" a contract from its content. Legal mode switches on manually, with the "This is a legal document" checkbox in the analysis settings. The checkbox is more reliable than a guess.
Pricing, no fine print
Guest access with no account: one breakdown a day. Study after registration, free permanently: three breakdowns a day, files up to 15 MB, video up to 120 minutes, saved results. Pro: unlimited breakdowns and chat questions, files up to 300 MB, video up to 420 minutes, export to PDF, DOCX, and Markdown. No surcharge for individual features, and no overage billing: the daily limit simply resets tomorrow.
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What happens to a file after the breakdown
An unsaved breakdown, its search index, and its chat history are deleted automatically after 24 hours — a fixed TTL, not a rough estimate. A saved one stays in your account until you delete it yourself. Neither the video nor the PDF file itself is stored on the servers separately from the breakdown result; the service works with text extracted from them.
What's actually worth checking yourself
Any review, including this one, is only as good as testing it against your own task. Run a document or clip you actually work with through the service, ideally an awkward one: a long report, a lecture with no captions, a contract in small print. One breakdown a day and two chat questions are available with no registration and no email.
A review from the team doesn't replace independent testing, but it removes at least one thing: guessing how the service works internally. The numbers above come down to one sentence — chat searches by meaning, a contract only gets the clause-by-clause treatment once it's explicitly marked as one, and an unsaved result disappears on its own after 24 hours. What decides it after that is your own file, not someone else's opinion of it.
Check it yourself instead of taking our word for it
One breakdown, no account, two minutes. Free.