
Free / Open-sourceSummarize YouTube, Google, and any page with AI — free in your browser
Free / Open-sourceSummarize YouTube, Google, and any page with AI — free in your browser

Summarize articles, blogs and YouTube videos with ChatGPT in one click

This is our editors' assessment out of 5, not an average of user ratings. The viewpoints on this page are written by AI from what we know about the product. They are not customer reviews.
According to OpenAITools.app telemetry verified on 2026-11-11, TLDR (chromewebstore.google.com) is an AI platform indexed under AI Summarizer 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 Free pricing model. Top competing alternatives by monthly volume include Glarity (188.82K visits/mo), Glasp (889.56K visits/mo), tl;dr AI Summarizer (2.14K visits/mo).
Saves hours of reading long essays and transcripts.
Occasional timeouts on heavy pages.
Handy chat feature.
Decent extension.
AI-synthesized perspectives grounded in live site inspection, pricing structure, and category benchmarks — presented as editorial viewpoints rather than individual customer testimonials.
Turn any long article, blog post or YouTube video into concise bullet points or a short paragraph powered by ChatGPT.
Choose Short, Medium or Long output so the summary matches the depth you actually need.
Highlight a hard paragraph or concept and let TLDR rewrite it in simple, plain language with helpful metaphors.
Export summaries as a clean branded PDF that keeps the article title, source link and TLDR branding.
Listen to summaries in male or female voices, save voice memos, and ask follow-up questions in a chat panel.
TLDR is a browser extension built for people who open more tabs than they can realistically read. Instead of scrolling through a 3,000-word article or sitting through a long YouTube video, you click the extension and ChatGPT distils the page into a compact set of bullet points or a short paragraph, so you can decide within seconds whether the content deserves your full attention.
The extension goes beyond a single summary button. You can choose Short, Medium or Long output to match how much detail you need, highlight a dense paragraph and ask TLDR to explain it in plain language with metaphors, save the result as a branded PDF with the source title and link, or turn the summary into audio with male and female text-to-speech voices. A chat panel lets you ask follow-up questions about the summarized content without leaving the page.
TLDR is free to start and installs from the Chrome Web Store as a small extension that hooks into your normal browsing flow. It is published by the team behind tldr-ai.io and has been listed on the store since 2023.
Run TLDR over the articles and newsletters you saved during the day and get bullet-point digests before your next meeting.
Summarize a long paper, then use Explain This on the hardest section to get a plain-language breakdown of the method or findings.
Summarize a long YouTube video to see whether it actually answers your question before committing 45 minutes to watching it.
Convert a summary to audio with text-to-speech and absorb the key points while walking, driving or cooking.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | TLDR | 0 | — | — | Free | Current |
| 1 | Glarity | 188.82K | -49.6% | 7% direct | Freemium | vs Glarity |
| 2 | Glasp | 889.56K | -14.1% | 45% direct | Freemium | vs Glasp |
| 3 | tl;dr AI Summarizer | 2.14K | -11.5% | 40% direct | Free | vs tl;dr AI Summarizer |
| 4 | Gist AI | 4.11K | -21.3% | 39% direct | Free | vs Gist AI |
| 5 | TLDR This | 82.61K | -20.5% | 28% direct | Free | vs TLDR This |
| 6 | Kome AI | 174.91K | -6.5% | 30% direct | Freemium | vs Kome AI |

Free / Open-sourceSummarize YouTube, Google, and any page with AI — free in your browser
Free / Open-sourceSummarize YouTube, Google, and any page with AI — free in your browser
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