Transcribe YouTube Videos & Chat with them using AI – Claras is a Chrome extension that turns any YouTube video into a chat experience using AI. No more scrubbing timelines or rewatching sections to find one piece of information. Get instant summaries, a timestamped table of contents, AI Chat, and highlights — all from inside your browser. Export transcripts as TXT or PDF. Lifetime plan lets you bring your own AI API for unlimited usage with no credit system.
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Guillermo, the founder of Claras.
I built this because I was spending way too much time on YouTube — scrubbing through 40-minute tutorials trying to find the one thing I needed. I wanted to just ask the video a question and get an answer. So I built that.
Funny note: After I built Claras, the first thing I started using it for wasn't research or learning — it was calling out clickbait. I just ask the video its own title question and find out in 3 seconds if it actually answers it. Spoiler: it usually doesn't. 😅
Here's what Claras does:
Core features:
🎙️ One-click transcript of any YouTube video
🤖 AI chat — ask anything about the video, get instant answers from the video
📋 Auto-generated summary + timestamped table of contents
🔍 Highlight key moments and save them for later
📥 Export as TXT, or PDF
🌍 Works in English and Spanish right now, but will expand
🔑 Lifetime plan: bring your own AI API, no credit system, unlimited usage
Who it's for:
⚡ Founders learning on YouTube — skip the fluff, extract only what's relevant to your business. Ask "what strategies are discussed?" or "how did they acquire their first 100 users?" and get the answer in seconds.
🎓 Students & researchers — pull key arguments, quotes, and insights from lectures, interviews, and documentaries without taking manual notes. Build a searchable knowledge base from your video sources.
📺 Casual viewers & vloggers — use the table of contents to see what a video covers before committing to watching it. Skip straight to the sections that matter to you. Better than the native skippable sections on Youtube
🎤 Webinars, speeches & long tutorials — never sit through a 2-hour conference recording again. Get a full breakdown, jump to timestamps that cover your interests, and ask follow-up questions like you were there live.
We've already transcribed over 100,000 minutes of YouTube content in beta. Would love to hear what you'd use it for — drop a comment below! 🚀
Guillermo Morales