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! 🚀
chatting with youtube videos feels like something i’d actually use when i’m lazy. does it hold up on longer videos
I’d rather read text than watch videos. It’s quicker to follow, and it filters out all the pointless video clutter.
Congrats on your launch! Being able to export transcripts is super useful. Can you detail how transcription works? Several questions:
Does it use YouTube’s native subtitles, or generate its own transcript?
What languages are supported for transcription and AI processing?
How does it handle videos with multiple speakers or heavy background noise?
Can I edit the transcript manually before exporting it as TXT/PDF?
Some times the videos are so long and we just need the context and move on, this kind of tool is really helpful when the presenter takes ages to get to the point!
Guillermo Morales