Skim — AI video summaries & chat icon

Skim — AI video summaries & chat

by Robin Tang · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 18 Oct 2026

Summarize a YouTube video and ask questions about it, without watching it.

Users
5
+2 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#268K
#223K among extensions
Version
1.2.0
updated 7 Sep 2026

Users

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025Aug 2026Oct 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 5 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

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Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Skim — AI video summaries & chat

Skim reads a YouTube video's transcript, writes a structured summary of it, and then answers your questions about what the video says — so you never have to watch it. What you can do: • Summarize a video in one click, from the YouTube page or from the toolbar • Ask follow-up questions and get answers grounded in what the video actually says • Choose the language of your summaries, independently of the video's language • Write your own summarizing instructions and save them as profiles: a short format for news, a detailed one for a conference talk How to use it: 1. Open the settings and paste the API key of the AI provider you choose. 2. Open a YouTube video, then click the summarize button. 3. Read the summary in the side panel, and ask your questions underneath. You use your own API key: Skim resells no subscription and adds no middleman. Your provider bills you, for what you use. Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, OpenRouter and OpenCode Zen are supported. Privacy: the extension has no server. Your keys, your settings and your conversations stay on your device. The transcript and your questions are sent only to the AI provider you chose, with your key. No analytics, no tracker. Open source: the code of every published version is on GitHub, so you can read what it does and rebuild it yourself — github.com/robin974/skim

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+1+25.0%00.00
30 days+2+66.7%00.00

Version history

2 versions recorded
1.2.07 Sep 2026
1.1.219 Aug 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
19 Aug 2026
Size
132 KB
Languages
en, fr
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Extension ID
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Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
storagesidePanelidentity
Site access
https://*.youtube.com/*https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*https://openrouter.ai/*https://api.openai.com/*https://api.anthropic.com/*https://api.deepseek.com/*https://opencode.ai/*

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