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TL;DW - Too Long; Didn't Watch

by didierganthierperan@gmail.com Β· Tools
Manifest V3 in_app
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 21 Oct 2026

Instantly summarize YouTube videos and ask questions using Google Gemini AI. Get key insights without watching the entire video.

Users
16
βˆ’3 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#169K
#142K among extensions
Version
1.4.1
updated 7 Mar 2026

Users

monthly, 10 months
0817Dec 2025Jun 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 21 Oct 2026: 16 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 10 months
001Dec 2025Jun 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 21 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About TL;DW - Too Long; Didn't Watch

🎬 TL;DW - Too Long; Didn't Watch Stop watching hour-long videos for one piece of information! TL;DW uses Google Gemini AI to instantly summarize any YouTube video and let you ask questions about its content. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES πŸ“ SMART AI SUMMARIES β€’ One-click video summarization powered by Google Gemini AI β€’ Intelligent extraction of key points and insights β€’ Beautifully formatted summaries with paragraphs and bullet points β€’ Works with any YouTube video that has captions πŸ’¬ INTERACTIVE Q&A β€’ Ask specific questions about the video content β€’ Get accurate AI-powered answers instantly β€’ Clickable timestamp links jump you to relevant moments β€’ No need to scrub through the entire video πŸ“„ EXPORT OPTIONS β€’ Download professional PDF summaries β€’ Copy to clipboard with one click β€’ Share summaries with colleagues or friends β€’ Perfect for research, study notes, and documentation 🎨 BEAUTIFUL DESIGN β€’ Clean, modern interface β€’ Smooth animations β€’ Dark gradient theme β€’ Easy to read and navigate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PERFECT FOR: β€’ Students researching topics for assignments β€’ Professionals catching up on industry talks β€’ Content creators analyzing competitor videos β€’ Anyone who values their time! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸš€ HOW TO USE 1. Go to any YouTube video 2. Click the TL;DW extension icon 3. Hit "Generate Summary" 4. Read your summary, ask questions, or export! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ”’ PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS β€’ Only accesses YouTube pages when you click the extension β€’ No data stored or sold β€’ Minimal permissions required β€’ Transcript data processed securely via AI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ“Œ NOTE: Requires YouTube videos to have captions/subtitles available. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Version: 1.3.0 What's New in This Version: ⚑ Usage Tracking - 5 free summaries/day with visual badge πŸ’³ Pro Subscription UI - Upgrade modal with pricing tiers πŸ”‘ License Key System - Activate Pro with license key πŸ’Ύ Summary Caching - Saves API costs, instant loading 🎨 Pro Status View - Shows membership status ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Formerly known as "YouTube AI Summarizer" Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you! Save time. Get the gist. TL;DW. πŸŽ₯⚑ v1.4.1 - Bug Fix Fixed transcript extraction for YouTube's updated interface. The extension now properly detects captions using YouTube's new transcript-segment-view-model format.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+1+6.7%00.00
30 daysβˆ’3βˆ’15.8%00.00
6 months+3+23.1%00.00

Version history

8 versions recorded
1.4.17 Mar 2026
1.4.013 Feb 2026
1.3.111 Feb 2026
1.3.04 Feb 2026
1.2.021 Jan 2026
1.1.014 Jan 2026
1.0.58 Jan 2026
1.0.419 Dec 2025

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
19 Dec 2025
Size
120 KB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
in_app
Extension ID
hdnjpkmgidbdmblhpmdhikhakmaehfem

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2
Permissions
activeTabscriptingsidePanelstorage
Site access
*://www.youtube.com/*https://youtube-ai-backend-z3ub.onrender.com/*

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