Best AI summarizer Chrome extensions (2026)
The 20 most-used AI summarizers on the Chrome Web Store, ranked by real store users. Listings rated under 3 stars on 20+ ratings are left out. Summarise videos, articles, pages, PDFs or emails with AI; TL;DR tools and transcript summaries.
Top 20 AI summarizers, ranked
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Smallpdf—Edit, Convert, Compress, & AI Summarize PDF
Get instant access to dozens of PDF tools directly in your browser – no downloads, no switching tabs.
≈3M users4.6★ from 3K ratingsUpdated 3 months ago3 permissions - 2
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 5 weeks ago1 permissions - 3
Jetwriter AI: Reply Emails, Ask Page, Summarize, Fix Grammar, and More
Write emails & messages, chat with page, improve writing, translate, and do much more. Powered by the most intelligent AI models
≈500K users4.6★ from 1.4K ratingsUpdated 3 weeks ago4 permissions - 4
Glasp Web Highlighter: PDF & Web Highlight
AI-powered Web Highlighter for Websites, PDF, and YouTube videos. YouTube Summary with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
≈500K users4.5★ from 990 ratingsUpdated 5 weeks ago5 permissions - 5
Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary
Productivity Highlighter & Annotation Tool for Websites & PDFs with AI Summary - free, easy to use, no sign-up required.
≈200K users4.8★ from 5.1K ratingsUpdated 2 days ago6 permissions - 6
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 - 7
Conch AI
Get your work done 10x faster anywhere with AI. Summarize articles, books, and pdfs.
≈100K users4.7★ from 208 ratingsUpdated 24 months ago2 permissions - 8
YouTube Summary & ChatGPT by Glasp
Get transcripts and summaries of YouTube videos. Powered by ChatGPT & Claude.
≈100K users3.9★ from 215 ratingsUpdated 5 weeks ago1 permissions - 9
Recall: Summarizer (YouTube, Articles, PDFs), AI Chat, Knowledge Base, Quiz
Save, summarize, and auto-organize YouTube, articles, PDFs, and podcasts in an AI knowledge base you can chat with and learn from
≈100K users4.4★ from 131 ratingsUpdated 4 days ago7 permissions - 10
ChatGPT Summarize
ChatGPT summarize or chat with Websites / Youtube using ChatGPT + DeepSeek. Summary * AI Summarize * OpenAI * PDF Summary * Claude
≈100K users4.5★ from 1.7K ratingsUpdated 3 months ago9 permissions - 11
Glarity ChatGPT: Summary & Translate AnyPage
Summarize YouTube videos, web pages, and translate text with ChatGPT, helping you read and write in your mother tongue, all for free
≈100K users3.9★ from 271 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago23 permissions - 12
Mapify - AI Summarizer & Mind Map Generator for YouTube, PDFs, and Webpages
Summarize anything to mindmap with AI
≈100K users4.1★ from 26 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago6 permissions - 13
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 - 14
Youtube Transcript
Youtube Video Transcript and Video Summary: YouTube video to text transcript, YouTube summary with ChatGPT.
≈100K users4.5★ from 1.1K ratingsUpdated 4 months ago5 permissions - 15
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 - 16
Scholarcy Browser Extension
Summarizes research articles, creates interactive flashcards, highlights key points, links to open-access versions of each citation
≈80K users4.0★ from 39 ratingsUpdated 7 months ago4 permissions - 17
Summary Webpage - Summarize Youtube videos | AI - Assistant
Summarize any webpage or Youtube video using AI and save time. Get the summary.
≈80K users3.9★ from 734 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago6 permissions - 18
Transcribe & Chat to Videos | Scribe
Instant transcripts that let you chat with any video using AI. Ask questions, get summaries, create flashcards.
≈60K users3.5★ from 462 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago4 permissions - 19
TLDR This - Free automatic text summary tool
Automatically summarize any article, text, document, webpage or essay in a click.
≈60K users3.7★ from 79 ratingsUpdated 10 months ago5 permissions - 20
YoutubeDigest: summarize using ChatGPT
Generates summaries for youtube videos using ChatGPT
≈60K users4.0★ from 364 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years3 permissions
Head-to-head comparisons
- Glasp Web Highlighter vs Web Highlights
- Eightify vs Web Highlights
- YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude vs Eightify
- Smallpdf—Edit, Convert, Compress, & AI Summarize PDF vs Web Highlights
- Glasp Web Highlighter vs ChatGPT Summarize
- ChatGPT Summarize vs YouTube Summary & ChatGPT by Glasp
- ChatGPT Summarize vs Glarity ChatGPT
- Eightify vs Mapify
AI summarizers: questions
What is the most popular AI summarizer Chrome extension?
Smallpdf—Edit, Convert, Compress, & AI Summarize PDF is the most used, with ≈3M users and a 4.6-star rating. YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude is next with ≈2M users.
Which AI summarizer extension has the best rating?
Of the listings with 100+ ratings, Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary rates highest: 4.8 out of 5 from 5.1K ratings.
Are these AI summarizers still maintained?
3 of the 20 listed here were updated in the last 30 days. Each card shows how recently it was updated.