Overview
Summarize YouTube videos in one click with key points, comment summaries, and no-caption video analysis for eligible plans.
You don't have time to watch a 45-minute video just to find out it's not what you needed. BriefBear fixes that. Click one button. Get the point. Move on. BriefBear injects a Summarize button directly into YouTube, whether you're browsing the homepage, scrolling search results, or already on the watch page. Hit it, and a clean AI-powered summary appears in a side panel, no tab-switching, no copy-pasting, no nonsense. What it does One-click summaries on any YouTube video, right where you're browsing Comment summaries to surface what viewers actually think (not just the top pinned comment from the creator's mom) Transcript viewer with search, scroll-to-timestamp, and copy, so you can dig into the source material when you need to Zero-caption video analysis for videos with no subtitles at all (Pro) Prompt Lab to control tone, length, and style of your summaries (Plus and above) Smart caching so repeat visits are instant Made for people who are serious about their time BriefBear isn't a toy. It handles queuing, retries, and error recovery quietly in the background. Summaries are cached so you never wait twice. The side panel updates in real time as your summary is generated, no page refreshes, no stale states. It works across YouTube's SPA navigation, survives feed refreshes, and knows to stay out of Shorts. Privacy, by design Your API key and cached summaries live in your browser. Nothing gets sent to our servers that doesn't need to be there. Comments are fetched through a rate-limited anonymous proxy so your Google account stays out of it. Stop watching videos you should be reading. Start using BriefBear.
Details
- Version1.0.1
- UpdatedMarch 3, 2026
- Offered byBriefBear
- Size1.63MiB
- LanguagesEnglish
- Developer
Email
mikxplaying@gmail.com - Non-traderThis developer has not identified itself as a trader. For consumers in the European Union, please note that consumer rights do not apply to contracts between you and this developer.
Privacy
BriefBear - YouTube Summarizer has disclosed the following information regarding the collection and usage of your data. More detailed information can be found in the developer's privacy policy.
BriefBear - YouTube Summarizer handles the following:
This developer declares that your data is
- Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
- Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
- Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
