Brief Bear

by Lucas Co · briefbear.com · Workflow & Planning

Established publisherManifest V3 Free

View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 17 Oct 2026

One-click delightfully brief summaries of any article, blog, or PDF report in your browser - prepared by AI.

Users

0 in 30 days

Rating

5.0 / 5

unchanged in 30 days

Ratings

0 in 30 days

Store rank

#210K

#176K among extensions

Version

2.0.1

updated 6 Jan 2025

Users

monthly, 2 years

Latest, 17 Oct 2026: 8 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 2 years

Latest, 17 Oct 2026: 1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Brief Bear

Brief Bear will summarize the internet for you More than 2 million blogs are posted online every day. Wisdom flows abundantly online, but it’s lost in the sheer volume; like drinking water from a firehose. Brief bear makes wisdom easily accessible. Bear-powered AI chatbot: Rapidly gather research for your next presentation, eminence, or proposal Get a pulse on your market or sector in a fraction of the time Eliminate information overload and get to the sources and stats for your next report or paper "Like C-3PO if all he did was speed-read long-form and spit out abbreviations. He will never tell you the odds unless those odds are a key takeaway from an article." - Lucas, Chief Bear Brief Bear is free of charge and simply requires an API key from OpenAI to use.