ireadfaster

ireadfaster is a small, single-purpose Chrome extension built to answer one question fast: what is this video actually about? Once installed, it adds two panels to the YouTube watch page — "Summary" and "Transcript". Pressing Generate in either panel sends the video's content off to an OpenAI-backed API and returns a condensed overview or the spoken text within seconds. The extension's defining detail is that the output is clickable: tapping any line in the summary or transcript jumps the YouTube player to the corresponding point in the video, which turns a summary into a navigation tool rather than just a wall of text.

The extension is published by the developer not.pizza, based in Chicago, and is listed on the Chrome Web Store at version 0.0.17 with a small but well-rated user base. It is offered free of charge. Because every generation costs the developer a few cents in API usage, the extension may ask you to sign in with a Google account before generating — a light anti-abuse measure rather than a paid tier. The developer's privacy disclosure states that data is not sold to third parties and is not used for unrelated purposes.

As a lightweight utility it is best suited to people who watch a lot of long-form video — lectures, interviews, conference talks, reviews — and want to triage content quickly or search inside a video without scrubbing. It is a browser extension, not a platform: there is no dashboard, no library of past summaries, and no mobile app. Install it from the Chrome Web Store and it appears on the YouTube UI; remove it and nothing is left behind.