TLDR - AI Article Summarizer for Web & News

by w3s · Tools

Manifest V3 Free

View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 20 Oct 2026

Summarize any article in 2 seconds with AI. Free, fast, private. Customize tone & length. Works on news, blogs, Wikipedia & more.

Users

+3 in 30 days

Rating

3.7 / 5

−1.33 in 30 days

Ratings

+1 in 30 days

Store rank

#134K

#112K among extensions

Version

1.1.0

updated 8 Mar 2026

Users

monthly, 8 months

Latest, 20 Oct 2026: 28 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 8 months

Latest, 20 Oct 2026: 3 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About TLDR - AI Article Summarizer for Web & News

**Stop wasting time reading articles you can summarize in 2 seconds.** TLDR uses blazing-fast AI to give you the gist of any article, blog post, or news story. Customize the summary style to match how YOU want to read. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ **WHY TLDR?** ✓ **Instant** - Summaries in ~2 seconds (10x faster than ChatGPT) ✓ **Free** - Uses Groq's free API tier ✓ **Private** - Your data never leaves your browser ✓ **Customizable** - 36 style combinations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 **HOW IT WORKS** 1. Click the TLDR icon on any article 2. Get your summary instantly 3. That's it. No signup, no subscription. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 **CUSTOMIZE YOUR SUMMARIES** **Tone Options:** • Witty - Clever, engaging, makes you smile • Professional - Clear, authoritative, business-ready • Casual - Friendly, like a friend explaining • Academic - Scholarly, nuanced, precise **Length Options:** • One-liner (20 words) - Quick glance • Brief (35 words) - Daily reading • Detailed (70 words) - Full understanding **Focus Options:** • Key Facts - Hard data and takeaways • Opinions - Author's perspective • Implications - Why it matters ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ **FEATURES** • **One-Click Summaries** - No copy-pasting into ChatGPT • **Regenerate** - Don't like it? Get a fresh take • **Smart Cache** - Re-visit articles load instantly • **Copy Button** - Share summaries easily • **Works Everywhere** - News, blogs, docs, Wikipedia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 **PRIVACY FIRST** • No tracking, no analytics, no data collection • API key stored locally in YOUR browser • Article text processed by Groq, then immediately discarded • Open source: github.com/wesleysmyth/TLDR-extension ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 **GETTING STARTED** (30 seconds) 1. Install this extension 2. Get a free API key at console.groq.com 3. Paste your key in settings 4. Click TLDR on any article! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 **WORKS GREAT ON** • News: NYT, BBC, Guardian, CNN, Reuters • Blogs: Medium, Substack, WordPress, Ghost • Tech: Hacker News, Dev.to, documentation • Research: Wikipedia, arXiv, academic sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ **QUESTIONS?** GitHub: github.com/wesleysmyth/TLDR-extension Report issues or request features there!