Free / Open-sourceOne-click AI assistant for browsing, writing and research
Free / Open-sourceOne-click AI assistant for browsing, writing and research

Bring-your-own-key Chrome extension that makes saved pages answer questions

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According to OpenAITools.app telemetry verified on 2026-11-11, bookmarksai (chromewebstore.google.com) is an AI platform indexed under AI Browsers generating 0 monthly visits with a month-over-month traffic delta of +0 (0.0%). Its primary geographic market is Global (— traffic share), and it operates on a Contact for Pricing pricing model. Top competing alternatives by monthly volume include Merlin AI (1.38M visits/mo), Kome AI (174.91K visits/mo), HARPA AI (537.46K visits/mo).
Having Gemini summarize my exact snapshots is brilliant.
Bring-your-own-API-key setup might turn off non-technical folks.
The HTML snapshot feature is a total game changer.
Stopped syncing properly after a minor update.
AI-synthesized perspectives grounded in live site inspection, pricing structure, and category benchmarks — presented as editorial viewpoints rather than individual customer testimonials.
When you bookmark a page, the extension saves an HTML snapshot so the content remains readable and searchable even after the live page changes.
Custom prompts let you steer the model toward a summary, a deep analysis, a comparison, or any specific question you have about the saved pages.
Read pages individually for focused answers or feed several bookmarks in at once to compare arguments and synthesize information across sources.
Define your own requirements and let the AI judge whether a saved page actually meets them, useful for screening research candidates.
Connect a Google Gemini Pro API key from the maker suite and pay only for the tokens you actually use.
bookmarksai starts from a familiar annoyance: bookmarks capture a link but not the content, so when the page changes or you simply forget why you saved it, the bookmark is worthless. The extension takes an HTML snapshot of each page you bookmark, preserving the text at the moment you saved it. That local archive becomes the corpus the AI reasons over.
From there you interact with your collection through prompts. You can ask a single saved page for a summary or a specific answer, or combine several bookmarks and ask the model to compare them, extract common claims, or generate follow-on ideas. A criteria mode lets you set a standard and have the AI report which saved pages meet it, which suits literature screening and coursework.
The important operational detail is the API key. bookmarksai is a thin client around Google's Gemini Pro API, and you bring your own key from Google's maker suite. That keeps the extension free but means your usage is billed by Google and the product depends on Google's model availability. The listing describes the extension as not collecting or using your data directly, since requests travel through your own key. The developer publishes other tools at mlnomads.com.
Snapshot a set of candidate papers and ask the AI which ones actually meet your inclusion criteria before you commit to reading.
Save a dozen sources for an essay, combine them in one request, and ask for common themes and contradictions.
Keep a personal snapshot archive of industry reporting and query it months later for specifics you would otherwise have lost.
With your own API key you can keep longer-term reading archives inside your own Google account rather than a third-party service.
Side-by-side telemetry comparison of competing AI tools in the same primary category
| Rank | AI Tool | Monthly Visits | MoM Growth | Direct traffic share | Pricing | Head-to-Head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | bookmarksai | 0 | — | — | Contact for Pricing | Current |
| 1 | Merlin AI | 1.38M | +13.1% | 50% direct | Freemium | vs Merlin AI |
| 2 | Kome AI | 174.91K | -6.5% | 30% direct | Freemium | vs Kome AI |
| 3 | HARPA AI | 537.46K | +99.3% | 76% direct | Freemium | vs HARPA AI |
| 4 | Glasp | 889.56K | -14.1% | 45% direct | Freemium | vs Glasp |
| 5 | DeepTranslate | 90.02K | -22.9% | 50% direct | Free | vs DeepTranslate |
| 6 | NativeMind | 2.21K | -54.1% | 39% direct | Free | vs NativeMind |
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