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YouTube AI Summarizer

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

Shows the transcript of the current YouTube video next to the player and sends it to ChatGPT on demand.

Users
97
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.2 / 5
−0.80 in 30 days
Ratings
5
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#85K
#71K among extensions
Version
1.1.0
updated 25 May 2026

Users

monthly, 16 months
04897Jun 2025Mar 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 97 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 16 months
025Jun 2025Mar 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 5 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About YouTube AI Summarizer

▎ Summarize any YouTube video with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or DeepSeek — ▎ one click, your own accounts, 50 languages. --- Detailed description: ▎ Turn any YouTube video into a clean, organized summary in seconds using the ▎ AI you already use. No API keys. No subscriptions. No copy-paste. ▎ ▎ YouTube AI Summarizer adds a transcript panel right next to the YouTube ▎ player. Pick a prompt, click your favorite AI, and the transcript is sent and ▎ submitted automatically. You get a summary before you'd have finished copying ▎ the transcript by hand. ▎ ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ HOW IT WORKS ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ ▎ 1. Open any YouTube video — the panel appears next to the player. ▎ 2. Pick a prompt — 14 ready-to-use prompts ship with the extension. ▎ 3. Click ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or DeepSeek — your prompt and the ▎ transcript are pasted and submitted automatically. ▎ ▎ That's it. No tabs to juggle, no manual copying. ▎ ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ KEY FEATURES ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ ▎ 🤖 Works with every major AI ▎ ChatGPT, Custom GPTs, Claude (including Opus 4.6 and Haiku 4.5), Gemini, ▎ Google AI Studio, Grok, DeepSeek, and Mistral. Use whichever account you ▎ already have — no extra cost, no API key. ▎ ▎ ⚡ Auto-paste & auto-submit ▎ On ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek, the prompt is typed into the ▎ input and submitted for you. Zero extra clicks after launching the model. ▎ ▎ 📚 14 ready-to-use prompts, in 7 categories ▎ Educational, Technical, Business, Reviews, Podcasts, Social / Content, and ▎ General. Match the prompt to the video — "Tech Product Review" for a phone ▎ review, "Podcast Deep Dive" for an interview, "Educational Notes Style" for a ▎ lecture, "Deep Technical Breakdown" for a conference talk. ▎ ▎ ✏️ Build your own prompt library ▎ Write, save, rename, and organize your own prompts. Tag each one with one or ▎ more categories. Filter your library by category to find what you need in ▎ seconds. ▎ ▎ 🌐 50-language summaries ▎ Get the summary in English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, German, ▎ French, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Turkish, and 38 more — regardless of the ▎ source video's language. The selected language is strictly enforced, so an ▎ English video can produce a fully Arabic summary. ▎ ▎ 🎛️ Quick Settings — in the panel itself ▎ Switch prompt, language, or AI model without ever opening the settings page. ▎ Perfect for moving between different video types in one session. ▎ ▎ ⏱️ Click-to-seek transcript ▎ Jump to any moment in the video by clicking its timestamp. The transcript is ▎ fetched the same way YouTube's own "Show transcript" button works — fast, ▎ reliable, and free. ▎ ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ PRIVACY-FIRST ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ ▎ ✓ No accounts, no sign-ups, no API keys. ▎ ✓ No tracking, no analytics, no telemetry. ▎ ✓ No external servers — everything runs locally in your browser. ▎ ✓ Your prompts and preferences are stored only in your own Chrome profile. ▎ ✓ Single permission requested: storage (so your prompts persist across ▎ sessions). ▎ ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ WHO IT'S FOR ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ ▎ 📖 Students — turn lectures and tutorials into clean study notes. ▎ 💼 Founders & PMs — pull execution insights from interviews and podcasts. ▎ 🔧 Engineers — get technical breakdowns of conference talks and product ▎ launches. ▎ 📱 Tech enthusiasts — distill long product reviews into pros, cons, and ▎ verdict. ▎ 🎙️ Researchers & journalists — process hours of interview content fast. ▎ 🌍 Multilingual learners — read foreign-language video summaries in your own ▎ language. ▎ ▎ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▎ ▎ If you use YouTube to learn, this extension turns "I'll watch that one later" ▎ into "I read the summary in 30 seconds and decided it's worth my time."

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+3+3.2%00.00
30 days0+0.0%+1−0.80
6 months+30+44.8%+1−0.80
1 year+30+44.8%+1−0.80

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where YouTube AI Summarizer appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
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Version history

3 versions recorded
1.1.025 May 2026
1.0.110 Jul 2025
1.0.025 Jun 2025

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
25 Jun 2025
Size
162 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
jkmgdfefeffdhcoojdkdaiblpjkbfilm

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 1, likelihood 2
Permissions
storage

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