Simple Tab Summarizer

Free AI summarizer for tabs, tab groups, and reading lists. Get instant summaries in 40+ languages with ChatGPT.

Simple Tab Summarizer uses AI to summarize web pages, tab groups, and reading lists — saving you time and screen space. Features: Current Tab Summary — Get a quick summary of the active tab with one click Tab Group Summarization — Select and summarize all tabs in a group at once with live auto-refresh Reading List Summarization — Summarize pages saved to Chrome's Reading List with live auto-refresh Configurable Verbosity — Choose between Short, Medium, or Detailed summary levels Expand Summary — View summaries in a full-page overlay for better readability 40+ Languages — Choose your summary language from Arabic to Vietnamese Popup or Sidebar — Use as a compact popup or a persistent sidebar panel with shared session state Free to Use — The extension itself is free. You connect it with your ChatGPT/OpenAI account. OpenAI offers a free ChatGPT tier for many users, but availability, supported features, and usage limits depend on OpenAI's current policies and your account status. What's new in 1.2.1: - Closed Shadow DOM Extraction: Fixed content extraction for platforms using closed shadow DOMs (e.g., Skilljar on Vue 3) - Google Docs Extraction: Document text from Google Docs is now properly extracted via DOCS_modelChunk JSON parsing - Session State Persistence: Summaries are now reliably saved to storage after each run, with a 30-minute TTL to prevent stale state restore What's new in 1.2.0: - Stop Summarization: Cancel ongoing summarization requests mid-flight with a new Stop button - Dynamic Page Content Extraction: Improved support for JavaScript-heavy pages (Atlassian, Google Dev Blog, etc.) that now wait for content to load before extracting - Unicode-Safe Text Processing: Fixed extraction to properly handle Cyrillic, CJK, and all non-Latin text - Enhanced Summary Overlay Typography: Prevents host page styles from overriding the modal's font stack What's new in 1.1.1: - Fixed packaging bug: all runtime module directories now included in release ZIP - Added release validation checks to ensure complete builds - Restored Connect button functionality and tabGroups permission usage What’s new in 1.1.0: Live auto-refresh for Tab Group and Reading List selections Shared popup/sidebar context and persisted summary/error session state Quick item actions: close tabs or remove Reading List entries directly in lists New summary levels: Short, Medium, Detailed Expand Summary overlay on the active tab with improved restricted-page error messaging How to use: Group your tabs (right-click a tab -> "Add tab to new group") Click the extension icon to open the popup Select a tab group or switch to Reading List mode Choose your language and summary level, then click "Summarize Selected" Review the summary in the popup, or expand it to a full-page overlay Privacy: This extension extracts text content from web pages you choose and sends it to ChatGPT's API for summarization. No data is stored, sold, or shared beyond what is necessary for the extension to function. See our full privacy policy at: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/blob/main/PRIVACY.md Official website: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer Share your improvement ideas and questions here: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/issues