BrainyBrief: Web, PDF & Video Summarizer

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 📚 Save useful summaries and reopen recent history in your Library 💎 Use credit-based Lite, Plus, and Pro plans Coming soon: 🔬 Research Finder for discovering related papers and sources 🗂️ Reference Manager for saving citations, source links, and reading notes 📝 Export Notes for moving summaries into documents and research workflows 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.