Summarize any YouTube video with AI. Get the full YouTube transcript, chapters with timestamps and chat, in one click.
Users
414
+94 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
7
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#47K
#40K among extensions
Version
2.8.0
updated 7 Sep 2026
Users
monthly, 7 months
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Ratings count
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Latest, 16 Oct 2026:7 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About YouTube Video Summarizer & Transcript - Claras
Claras is a YouTube video summarizer, transcript generator and AI chat in one, powered by ChatGPT and Claude. Summarize any YouTube video, or an entire YouTube search at once.
Get the full YouTube transcript, a detailed AI summary, auto-generated chapters with timestamps, and a built-in chat for follow-up questions. One video or twenty. Get the insight, skip the hours.
🔍 SuperSearch: summarize several YouTube videos at once
The thing almost no other tool does. Point Claras at a YouTube search or playlist and get one combined summary of everything, or an individual summary per video, then chat across all of them at once. Research a whole subject in the time one video used to take.
📄 Full transcript, YouTube to text
Clean, searchable text from any video. Copy it, download it as TXT, build your own knowledge base, or hand it straight to ChatGPT or Claude.
✨ AI summaries and auto-generated chapters
Summaries detailed enough that you can skip the video and miss nothing. Every video gets clickable chapters with timestamps, plus chapter markers drawn onto the YouTube progress bar so you see the structure at a glance.
💬 Chat with any YouTube video using AI
Ask follow-up questions and get answers with timestamp references. Chat across an entire search or playlist at once.
⚡ Also included
Ready-to-post social copy from any video, a dashboard of everything you have analyzed, transcripts and summaries in 15 languages, TXT and PDF export, and bring-your-own API key for unlimited use at your own cost.
What can I use Claras for?
Professionals pull the takeaways out of webinars and training. Students turn two-hour lectures into searchable notes. Creators analyze a whole niche of competitor videos at once. Researchers extract claims and data across many videos without rewatching.
How is Claras different from other YouTube summarizers?
Most YouTube transcript tools just show you raw text. Most summarizers give you a paragraph and call it done. Claras gives you the whole stack, transcript plus chapters plus summary plus chat, from one click, for a single video or an entire YouTube search, right in the side panel while you watch.
Which YouTube videos does Claras work with?
Around 90% of them. Claras reads the video's existing transcript, so the small share of videos that have none cannot be summarized.
Which AI models does Claras use?
ChatGPT for summaries, chapters and chat, and Claude for the generated social posts. You can also connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key in Settings and use Claras without limits at your own cost.
Is Claras free?
Yes. 3 videos a month plus a monthly SuperSearch, no credit card required. Lite is 10 videos a day. Pro is 50 videos a day, one at a time or several at once, from $2.99/month. Unlimited from $4.20/month billed yearly.
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