Gist AI is a free Chrome extension powered by ChatGPT that summarizes websites, YouTube videos, and PDFs in over 30 languages without length restrictions. It allows users to deep dive into the summary source or jump directly to key moments in YouTube videos, saving time and improving comprehension.
Gist AI
Free Chrome extension for summarizing websites, YouTube videos, and PDFs using ChatGPT.
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What is Gist AI?
How to use
Install the Gist AI extension from the Chrome Web Store, pin it to the toolbar, open any website, YouTube video, or PDF, and click the extension icon to summarize it. For PDFs stored on your computer, upload them in the PDF tab.
Core Features
- Summarizes websites, YouTube videos, and PDFs
- Powered by ChatGPT
- Offers a Read More feature for deeper dives
- Allows jumping to core segments of YouTube videos
- Supports online and local PDFs
- No length restrictions
Use Cases
- Quickly extract key points from long articles, YouTube videos, or PDFs.
- Deep-dive into the source of summaries that interest you.
- Skim through summaries and watch only relevant parts of YouTube videos.
- Summarize PDFs found online or saved on your device.
- Improve comprehension and focus by breaking down long content.
FAQ
What makes your AI summarizer different from others?
Gist AI can summarize everything - websites, YouTube videos and PDFs. It is free and there is no restriction on the length of the content. With Gist AI, you can also read more details about the summary source or jump right to specific moments in a YouTube video. It improves understanding by splitting long content into smaller blocks.
How does the AI PDF summarizer work?
Gist AI can summarize an online PDF as well as any PDF stored on your device using ChatGPT AI. To summarize any PDF, just click on the Gist AI extension icon. If it is a PDF stored on your device, you need to upload it for summarization.
Is there a free version of the summarizer available?
Gist AI is a completely free AI summarizer. It can summarize any website, YouTube video, online PDF as well as any PDF stored on your device.
Can the Chrome extension summarize articles from any website?
Gist AI is a Chrome extension that can summarize articles from all websites for free.
Is the summary generator safe to use?
Gist AI respects the user privacy and does not collect any user data. It only reads the content for summarization and does not store this content. So it is completely safe to use.
Can ChatGPT summarize YouTube videos?
ChatGPT cannot directly summarize YouTube videos because it can only process text. So Gist AI extracts the transcript from the YouTube video and then uses ChatGPT to summarize it.
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Pros & Cons
Pros
- Free to use
- Summarizes various content types (websites, YouTube videos, PDFs)
- No length restrictions
- Offers deep-dive and jump-to-segment features
- Improves comprehension
Cons
- Relies on ChatGPT, so summary quality depends on ChatGPT's performance
- Requires Chrome browser
- Summaries may need cross-checking for originality