Gist AI

Gist AI is a Chrome extension that summarizes whatever is in front of you: a web page, a YouTube video, a PDF hosted online, or a PDF stored on your own machine. You click the toolbar icon on any page and the key points come back broken into smaller blocks rather than one dense paragraph, a structure the publisher describes as research backed for comprehension. Local files are handled by uploading them in the extension's PDF tab. Summaries are produced with ChatGPT. The extension suits people working through long reading and watching lists: researchers, students, and anyone triaging articles, reports and recorded talks. Two features go beyond a plain summary. A Read More control expands any point back into the source passage it came from, so a claim can be verified or explored without rereading the whole document. For video, each summary segment links to the moment it describes, letting you jump to the parts of a long recording that matter instead of scrubbing the timeline. The publisher states there is no cap on the length of content the tool will process, so books, research papers and long documents are in scope, and that the extension collects no user data and only reads the content of the page it is summarizing. Gist AI publishes no pricing. The site describes the summarizer as completely free with no restriction on content length, no plans, credits or paid tiers appear anywhere on it, and the standard pricing paths return nothing.