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Best alternatives to TubeLens - AI YouTube Summary, Mind Map, Search & Comment Insights (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to TubeLens, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

TubeLens - AI YouTube Summary, Mind Map, Search & Comment Insights today

≈1K users3.5★ from 17 ratingsUpdated 5 months ago6 permissions

TubeLens alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    YouTube Summary & ChatGPT by Glasp

    Get transcripts and summaries of YouTube videos. Powered by ChatGPT & Claude.

    ≈100K users3.9★ from 215 ratingsUpdated 6 weeks ago1 permissions
    • About 100× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
  2. 2

    YouTube To Transcript: AI Summarizer & Chat

    Get instant YouTube transcripts with AI summaries, insights, and chat features. Ideal for faster learning and note-taking.

    ≈80K users4.8★ from 685 ratingsUpdated 7 months ago8 permissions
    • About 80× more users than TubeLens
    • Asks for more permissions (8 vs 6)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  3. 3

    DeepSum | YouTube AI Summary

    Use YouTube AI Summary to transcribe youtube video to text and apply a powerful AI assistant as a video summarizer.

    ≈10K users4.7★ from 391 ratingsUpdated 12 months ago11 permissions
    • About 10× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (11 vs 6)
  4. 4

    Clarify AI: YouTube Summaries

    Summarize YouTube videos with AI, timestamps, transcripts, bookmarks, and chat.

    ≈30K users4.4★ from 1.3K ratingsUpdated 2 weeks ago4 permissions
    • About 30× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 6)
  5. 5

    YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude

    Summarize YouTube videos, web articles, and PDFs to save time, powered by ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral AI, and Gemini.

    ≈2M users4.3★ from 4.1K ratingsUpdated 6 weeks ago1 permissions
    • About 2000× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
  6. 6

    AI Summary for YouTube

    Get YouTube Video Summary in seconds and let you quickly get the content of the video, save time and learn quicker.

    ≈100K users3.1★ from 110 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago5 permissions
    • About 100× more users than TubeLens
    • Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 6)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  7. 7

    Decopy AI | YouTube Summary & Transcript Generator

    AI-powered tool to summarize YouTube transcripts and capture key insights instantly.

    ≈2K users5.0★ from 139 ratingsUpdated 10 months ago3 permissions
    • About 2.0× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
  8. 8

    Youtube Transcript AI Summary

    Generate YouTube transcript summaries with OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude.

    ≈20K users4.3★ from 79 ratingsUpdated 5 weeks ago12 permissions
    • About 20× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (12 vs 6)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  9. 9

    Eightify: AI YouTube Summarizer

    Summarize YouTube videos with AI. Save time on long videos — get instant, high-quality summaries and key insights.

    ≈200K users4.0★ from 861 ratingsUpdated 11 months ago1 permissions
    • About 200× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 6)
  10. 10

    YouTube Summary with AI

    Summarize any YouTube video in one click with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Mistral or Grok. Fast, lightweight and free.

    ≈20K users4.3★ from 273 ratingsUpdated in the last day4 permissions
    • About 20× more users than TubeLens
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 6)

TubeLens alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to TubeLens?

By users, the most popular alternative is YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude with ≈2M users and a 4.3-star rating. The closest match by what it does is YouTube Summary & ChatGPT by Glasp.

Which TubeLens alternative has the best rating?

Decopy AI | YouTube Summary & Transcript Generator has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 5.0 out of 5 from 139 ratings.

Is there a TubeLens alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

YouTube Summary & ChatGPT by Glasp asks for 1 permissions, against 6 for TubeLens.

How many alternatives to TubeLens are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to TubeLens on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

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