How does summarization work?

Get TLDR extracts the page or selection in your browser and generates the summary through the Get TLDR service. Add your API key once and start summarizing.

Can I control the style of the summary?

Yes. Pick from concise, bullet points, executive, technical, or action-item styles — or save your own custom prompt and reuse it on any page.

Does it work on videos?

Yes. On supported video pages you can summarize from the player or the popup, and the brief is grounded in the transcript.

Where are my summaries stored?

In a local library in your browser. You can search, copy, open the source, and export them; usage stats stay on your device too.

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Get TLDR — Turn any page into a clear summary.

AI summaries in context: read the essentials of any article or video in a focused in-page sidebar. Choose a summary style or write your own, summarize selected text from the right-click menu, and keep every summary in a searchable local library.

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Add Get TLDR to Chrome

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What Get TLDR actually does

AI summaries, in context

Read the page without reading the page

Open Get TLDR on any article and a focused sidebar distills it to the core idea, key points, and next steps — right beside the content, so you never leave the tab you're on.

In-page sidebar summary with the essentials up top

Word and token counts on every result

Copy, share, or open the source in one click

Your summary, your way

Choose the way you think

Switch between built-in styles — concise, bullet points, executive, technical, action items — or save a custom prompt that frames every summary the way your work needs it.

Five built-in summary styles

Custom prompts you write once and reuse

Your last choice is remembered next time

Video summaries

Get the point before the progress bar ends

Summarize supported video pages straight from the player or the popup, then read a transcript-grounded brief beside the video instead of scrubbing through it.

Summarize from the player or the popup

Transcript-based, using your chosen prompt

Saved automatically like any other summary

Get the point before the progress bar ends

A useful memory

Your reading, remembered

Every summary lands in a saved library you can search, revisit, copy, and export. Sources, styles, and word counts stay attached so you can find that one summary from last week.

Search across every saved summary

Open the original source anytime

Export your notes when you need them elsewhere

Selected text

Pick a sentence, get the point

Highlight anything on a page, right-click, and summarize just that selection — the result opens in the same sidebar so you can pull the meaning out of one passage without summarizing the whole page.

Summarize selected text from the context menu

Great for long threads, docs, and comment sections

Same sidebar, same styles, same saved library

AI summaries, in context