Video Companion

Tracking since May 22, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 4, 2026
  description

  Companion is a side panel that watches YouTube with you. As the video plays, it
  quietly flags people, places, products, technical terms, and references you might
  not recognize — explained briefly, with a click-to-jump timestamp. By the time the
  speaker says the term, the card is already there.
  
  WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
  
  Most AI tools for YouTube hand you a wall of text after the video ends. Companion
  works AS YOU WATCH, and it adapts to YOU. A doctor and a software engineer watching
  the same lecture see different cards. An ESL learner sees idioms and slang flagged
  that native speakers don't need.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
  
  1. Open any YouTube video.
  2. Click the Companion icon. Cards begin appearing in the side panel.
  3. Each card explains a term that just came up — with a timestamp you can click
     to jump back to that moment.
  4. Tap "Already know" on cards you find obvious. Tap "More like this" on cards
     that were just right. Companion learns your background and gets sharper over time.
  
  FOUR BUILT-IN PROFILES, PLUS CUSTOM
  
  — General audience: everything non-obvious gets flagged
  — Designer / Developer: skips basic web terms, keeps the niche ones
  — Learning English: adds idioms, slang, casual phrasings
  — AI/ML expert: skips familiar model names, surfaces obscure tools
  — Custom: write your own ("Cardiologist comfortable with most medical terminology...")
  
  USE YOUR OWN AI KEY
  
  Companion supports Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek. You bring your
  own API key — keys are stored locally on your device and used only to call the
  provider you choose. Gemini has a free tier; Claude Haiku costs about 3 cents per
  video.
  
  FEATURES
  
  — Live rolling cards that appear just before the term is spoken
  — Summary tab with TL;DR plus a 3-4 sentence arc
  — Ask tab: chat with the video, answers grounded in the transcript
  — Library tab: every analyzed video saved locally, instantly re-openable
  — Export to Markdown for any analysis
  — Click any card or timestamp in chat to jump the player there
  — Dark mode, 12 output languages, auto language detection
  — Auto-close when you leave YouTube (with a pin button to keep it open)
  — Per-video cost transparency — never wonder how many tokens were used
  
  PRIVACY
  
  Your API keys live only on your device. Transcripts are sent only to the AI provider
  you chose, only when you analyze a video. Companion does not sell, share, or transmit
  any data to us. Cached analyses are stored locally in your browser.
  
  WORKS BEST ON
  
  — Long-form videos: lectures, podcasts, technical talks, documentaries
  — Foreign-language videos when you want explanations in your own language
  — Content outside your expertise — the kind where you usually pause to Google
  
  Companion does not work on private/age-restricted videos or videos without captions.

  Companion is a side panel that watches YouTube with you. As the video plays, it
  quietly flags people, places, products, technical terms, and references you might
  not recognize — explained briefly, with a click-to-jump timestamp. By the time the
  speaker says the term, the card is already there.
  
  Unlike summarizer extensions that replace watching with reading, Companion is for
  videos you actually want to watch — it explains unfamiliar terms as the speaker
  says them, tuned to your background. No more pausing to look things up.
  
  WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
  
  Most AI tools for YouTube hand you a wall of text after the video ends. Companion
  works AS YOU WATCH, and it adapts to YOU. A doctor and a software engineer watching
  the same lecture see different cards. An ESL learner sees idioms and slang flagged
  that native speakers don't need.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
  
  1. Open any YouTube video.
  2. Click the Companion icon. Cards begin appearing in the side panel.
  3. Each card explains a term that just came up — with a timestamp you can click
     to jump back to that moment.
  4. Tap "Already know" on cards you find obvious. Tap "More like this" on cards
     that were just right. Companion learns your background and gets sharper over time.
  
  FOUR BUILT-IN PROFILES, PLUS CUSTOM
  
  — General audience: everything non-obvious gets flagged
  — Designer / Developer: skips basic web terms, keeps the niche ones
  — Learning English: adds idioms, slang, casual phrasings
  — AI/ML expert: skips familiar model names, surfaces obscure tools
  — Custom: write your own ("Cardiologist comfortable with most medical terminology...")
  
  USE YOUR OWN AI KEY
  
  Companion supports Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek. You bring your
  own API key — keys are stored locally on your device and used only to call the
  provider you choose. Gemini has a free tier; Claude Haiku costs about 3 cents per
  video.
  
  FEATURES
  
  — Live rolling cards that appear just before the term is spoken
  — Summary tab with TL;DR plus a 3-4 sentence arc
  — Ask tab: chat with the video, answers grounded in the transcript
  — Library tab: every analyzed video saved locally, instantly re-openable
  — Export to Markdown for any analysis
  — Click any card or timestamp in chat to jump the player there
  — Dark mode, 12 output languages, auto language detection
  — Auto-close when you leave YouTube (with a pin button to keep it open)
  — Per-video cost transparency — never wonder how many tokens were used
  
  PRIVACY
  
  Your API keys live only on your device. Transcripts are sent only to the AI provider
  you chose, only when you analyze a video. Companion does not sell, share, or transmit
  any data to us. Cached analyses are stored locally in your browser.
  
  WORKS BEST ON
  
  — Long-form videos: lectures, podcasts, technical talks, documentaries
  — Foreign-language videos when you want explanations in your own language
  — Content outside your expertise — the kind where you usually pause to Google
  
  Companion does not work on private/age-restricted videos or videos without captions.

Permissions & access

Permissions

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Host access

https://*.youtube.com/*, https://api.anthropic.com/*, https://api.openai.com/*, https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*, https://api.deepseek.com/*

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