YouTube Labels

YouTube Labels is a free Chrome extension that puts an AI analyst directly into the YouTube interface. When you land on a video, a single click opens a panel that analyses the content on several levels rather than offering plain playback. The stated goal is to help viewers decide faster whether a video is worth their attention and to spot manipulative framing before it works on them.

The analysis has four strands. Thumbnail analysis looks for clickbait and manipulation signals. A content deep dive produces concise summaries, suggested titles and topic tags. A fact-checking pass attempts to verify claims and supply corrections or context. Finally, the extension recommends related search queries and similar higher-quality videos to continue from.

Crucially, the extension does not only run on the watch page. As you scroll through your subscriptions or search results, it proactively analyses thumbnails and surfaces instant insights, turning ordinary browsing into a continuous assessment layer. Google's Gemini API is the engine behind all of this, providing the natural language and multimodal understanding that lets the extension read transcripts, titles and images together.