YT Summary: summaries for YouTube icon

YT Summary: summaries for YouTube

by Alessandro Zanoni · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 20 Oct 2026

A brief and a full summary of any YouTube video in one click, in the side panel, with your own OpenRouter and Gemini keys.

Users
8
store count
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
total ratings
Store rank
#219K
#183K among extensions
Version
1.3.1
updated 25 Sep 2026

Users

monthly, 1 months
048Sep 2026Oct 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 20 Oct 2026: 8 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 1 months
001Sep 2026Oct 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 20 Oct 2026: 0 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 YT Summary: summaries for YouTube

YT Summary adds a "Summarize" button to the video page and to YouTube thumbnails. One click opens the side panel with a three-to-five-point brief; a second button produces the full summary, organized by concept and sized to the length of the video. Every sentence is clickable and jumps to the exact moment of the video. How it works • The transcript is read from the video's subtitles, right in the browser. • The summary is written by the model you choose on OpenRouter, with your own API key: you pay only for what you use, or use the free-models router. • For videos without subtitles, with a Google AI Studio key, Gemini transcribes the video once. • Under every summary you see the cost in tokens and dollars. • Briefs, summaries and transcripts stay in a local cache for as long as you choose (from 1 day to forever). • Summaries in the language you pick in the options, whatever the language of the video. Getting started 1. After installation the options page opens on "Getting started": create a free key on openrouter.ai and paste it. 2. Choose Free (free models, no credit needed) or Paid (a few dollars of OpenRouter credit; with the default model a summary usually costs less than one cent). 3. Open a YouTube video and click "Summarize". Privacy No developer server, no telemetry. The video title and transcript go only to OpenRouter (and to Google for videos without subtitles), with your keys. Your keys stay in your browser. An OpenRouter key is required (openrouter.ai/keys). The interface follows Chrome's language and is available in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. YT Summary is free. If it saves you time, you can support its development with a donation on Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/th4nksf0rh3lp): it is optional and unlocks nothing. Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+2+33.3%00.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where YT Summary: summaries for YouTube appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
youtube summary#82new
summarize youtube#94new

Version history

1 versions recorded
1.3.125 Sep 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
25 Sep 2026
Size
110 KB
Languages
de, en, nl, es, fr, it, pl, pt-BR
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
gist.github.com
Extension ID
amljkjdkngjbabhiecindpglpibjeaok

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
sidePanelstoragescriptingunlimitedStorage
Site access
https://www.youtube.com/*https://openrouter.ai/*https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*

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