Youtldr – Get The Tldr Of

YouTLDR helps you get the TLDR of any YouTube video in seconds. The official Chrome companion to the you-tldr.com web app brings our transcript, AI summary, timeline, chat, and translation tools into a clean side panel right next to whatever video you're watching.

Sign in once at you-tldr.com and the extension picks up your session automatically.

WHAT YOU CAN DO IN THE EXTENSION

• TRANSCRIPT — Pull the full transcript of any YouTube video in 125+ languages, with clickable timestamps that seek the player and a live search box that highlights every match as you type. Copy the whole transcript with one click.

• OPINIONATED TLDR — Get an AI summary that doesn't bury the lede: the point, the proof, the surprise, plus a watch / skip / optional segment map and quotable highlights. Pick from four summary styles: Just-the-takeaways for a fast scan, Explain-it-to-me for context, Make-it-actionable for next steps, or Detailed for the full nuance.

• VISUAL TIMELINE — A clickable timeline of the video's key beats. Jump straight to the moment that matters without scrubbing.

• Q&A CHAT — Ask questions about the video and get grounded answers backed by the transcript. Great for studying, fact-checking, or getting a specific number out of a long talk.

• IN-PLACE TRANSLATION — Translate the loaded transcript line-by-line into any of 125+ languages while keeping all the original timestamps intact. Toggle between original and translated views with one click.

• PER-VIDEO CACHE — Reopen the side panel on a video you've already fetched and the transcript loads instantly. Zero network. Zero extra cost.

• NOW-PLAYING AWARENESS — When you navigate to a different YouTube video while the panel is open, your loaded view stays put and a small banner offers to switch — so you never lose what you were reading.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Sign in once at https://www.you-tldr.com
2. Open any YouTube video
3. Click the in-page TLDR button on the video, or pin YouTLDR to your toolbar
4. Pick your language and click Fetch Transcript
5. Read, search, summarize, time-jump, translate, copy, or chat - all from the side panel

WANT MORE? VISIT YOU-TLDR.COM

The extension is the fast in-browser companion. The full you-tldr.com web app is where the deeper workflows live:

• Repurpose any video into a blog post, LinkedIn post, Twitter thread, or full PowerPoint deck
• Generate study notes and meeting notes from lectures and interviews
• Search across your transcript history and download .txt or .srt files
• Compare two videos side-by-side
• Generate YouTube Shorts ideas from a long-form video
• Pull AI-generated chapters for any video
• Use YouTube as a market-research tool

If you already have a YouTLDR Pro account, the extension just picks up your subscription — nothing extra to set up. Visit https://www.you-tldr.com to start a free account or upgrade.

BUILT FOR

Students cramming long lectures into 5-minute reads. Researchers extracting quotes for citations. Journalists transcribing interviews. Engineers and PMs learning from conference talks. Language learners using YouTube as immersive practice with native-language read-along. Content creators studying competitors and finding angles. Anyone who watches more YouTube than they have hours in the day.

PRIVACY — IN PLAIN ENGLISH

We take privacy seriously. Three things to know:

1. The extension only does work when you click. We do not read your browsing history, we do not track which YouTube videos you watch, and we do not silently send anything to our backend. The only network calls happen on videos you explicitly ask us to fetch.

2. The cookies permission is used solely to detect when you sign in or out at you-tldr.com so the extension can refresh its cached auth state. We never read, write, or transmit any cookie value. (Chrome doesn't even expose the auth-token cookie to extensions — we couldn't read it if we wanted to.)

3. Transcripts and AI responses are cached locally in your browser via chrome.storage.local for 24 hours and then auto-deleted. Your language preference is also saved locally. Nothing is stored on our servers beyond what's needed to generate the AI response you asked for. We use Google Gemini as our AI provider and, per the Gemini API terms, content sent through the paid Gemini API is not used to train Google's models.

Full privacy policy: https://www.you-tldr.com/privacy

PERMISSIONS

• Side Panel — to render YouTLDR's main UI alongside YouTube
• Storage — to cache transcripts and your language preference locally
• Active Tab — to read the current YouTube video URL when you click the toolbar icon
• Cookies — to detect sign-in / sign-out events on you-tldr.com (read-only, no cookie values are accessed)
• Host: youtube.com — to inject the in-page TLDR button and forward seek requests to the video player
• Host: you-tldr.com — to call the YouTLDR backend with your existing session

POWERED BY YOU-TLDR.COM

YouTLDR is used by thousands of students, creators, and researchers to make sense of YouTube faster.

Get started: https://www.you-tldr.com