BrainyBrief: AI Reading & Research Assistant

Summarize webpages, PDFs, YouTube videos and transcripts. Translate, ask questions, analyze sources, save notes and view citations.

BrainyBrief is an AI research and reading assistant for Chrome. It helps you turn long webpages, PDFs, YouTube videos, Audio transcript, articles, emails, and research sources into clear summaries, cited answers, and saved notes. Use BrainyBrief when you are reading academic papers, news articles, blog posts, reports, documentation, course material, or long webpages and want to understand the source faster without losing track of where the information came from. Key features: ⚡ Summarize webpages in seconds 📄 Summarize PDFs with page-aware citations ▶️ Summarize YouTube videos using available captions and transcripts 🎧 Audio Transcript Summary for meetings, lectures, calls, podcasts, and interviews 💬 Ask BrainyBrief questions about the current page, PDF, video, or captured screen area 📸 Capture part of a webpage and ask AI to explain, translate, extract text, or answer questions 🌍 Translate summaries into multiple languages 🔎 View cited source snippets for key points 📍 Highlight citation sources on the original webpage when available ⏱️ Open PDF page references and YouTube timestamp references when available 🧠 Run Source Analysis to evaluate evidence, framing, tone, reliability, limitations, and claims to verify 🔬 Research Finder for discovering related papers and sources 📚 Save useful summaries and reopen recent history in your Library 📝 Export Notes in DOCX, TXT, MD and PDF ready HTML format. 📝 Get Citation citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, AMA, and IEEE. Copy instantly or export as RIS, BibTeX, CSL JSON, or EndNote XML 💎 Use credit-based Lite, Plus, and Pro plans Coming soon: 🗂️ Reference Manager for saving citations, source links, and reading notes 🔬 Citation Mapping BrainyBrief only reads the active content when you choose to summarize, ask, translate, capture, or analyze a source. It does not continuously monitor your browsing.