Know what a video says before you watch it.
A Summarise button on every YouTube card. Click it and the summary opens underneath, with timestamps you can jump to.
Install itFree. Works on your home feed, subscriptions, search, channel pages, playlists, history and the watch page.
Why it's free
It runs on a cheap model and a weekly allowance, which is enough to give away. Most summaries appear straight away.
If a summary is wrong, give it a thumbs down. Once enough people agree it's bad, it gets rewritten.
What you get
| Free | ~400 minutes of video a week (can vary). Re-opening something you've already summarised is free and doesn't count. |
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| Cost | Nothing. There's no payment method to enter. |
Installing
It's waiting on Chrome Web Store review, so for now it installs by hand. Takes about a minute, and it's the same four steps on Mac and Windows.
Download Feed Summariser- Unzip it somewhere permanent — Documents, not Downloads. Chrome loads the extension from this folder every time it starts, so if you delete it later the extension disappears with it.
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Go to
chrome://extensionsand turn on Developer mode (top-right switch). - Click Load unpacked and choose the folder you unzipped.
- Sign in with Google when the settings page opens, then head to YouTube and hit Summarise on any video.
Chrome will warn you about developer-mode extensions each time it starts. That's Chrome being cautious about anything not installed from its store. It goes away once the listing is approved, and updating then becomes automatic.
What it does not do
It doesn't track what you watch. The only videos it ever knows about are the ones where you press Summarise yourself. There are no ads, no trackers, and nothing is sold to anyone — see the privacy policy.