Simple Tab Summarizer

Tracking since Apr 16, 2026.

Changelog

• May 11, 2026
  description

  Free AI summarizer for tabs, tab groups, and reading lists. Get instant summaries in 40+ languages with ChatGPT.
  
  Simple Tab Summarizer uses AI to summarize web pages, tab groups, and reading lists — saving you time and screen space.
  
  Features:
  
  Current Tab Summary — Get a quick summary of the active tab with one click
  Tab Group Summarization — Select and summarize all tabs in a group at once with live auto-refresh
  Reading List Summarization — Summarize pages saved to Chrome's Reading List with live auto-refresh
  Configurable Verbosity — Choose between Short, Medium, or Detailed summary levels
  Expand Summary — View summaries in a full-page overlay for better readability
  40+ Languages — Choose your summary language from Arabic to Vietnamese
  Popup or Sidebar — Use as a compact popup or a persistent sidebar panel with shared session state
  Free to Use — The extension itself is free. You connect it with your ChatGPT/OpenAI account. OpenAI offers a free ChatGPT tier for many users, but availability, supported features, and usage limits depend on OpenAI's current policies and your account status.
  
  What's new in 1.1.1:
  - Fixed packaging bug: all runtime module directories now included in release ZIP
  - Added release validation checks to ensure complete builds
  - Restored Connect button functionality and tabGroups permission usage
  
  What’s new in 1.1.0:
  
  Live auto-refresh for Tab Group and Reading List selections
  Shared popup/sidebar context and persisted summary/error session state
  Quick item actions: close tabs or remove Reading List entries directly in lists
  New summary levels: Short, Medium, Detailed
  Expand Summary overlay on the active tab with improved restricted-page error messaging
  How to use:
  
  Group your tabs (right-click a tab -> "Add tab to new group")
  Click the extension icon to open the popup
  Select a tab group or switch to Reading List mode
  Choose your language and summary level, then click "Summarize Selected"
  Review the summary in the popup, or expand it to a full-page overlay
  Privacy: This extension extracts text content from web pages you choose and sends it to ChatGPT's API for summarization. No data is stored, sold, or shared beyond what is necessary for the extension to function. See our full privacy policy at: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
  
  Official website: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer
  
  Share your improvement ideas and questions here: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/issues

  Simple Tab Summarizer uses AI to summarize web pages, tab groups, and reading lists — saving you time and screen space.
  
  Features:
  
  Current Tab Summary — Get a quick summary of the active tab with one click
  Tab Group Summarization — Select and summarize all tabs in a group at once with live auto-refresh
  Reading List Summarization — Summarize pages saved to Chrome's Reading List with live auto-refresh
  Configurable Verbosity — Choose between Short, Medium, or Detailed summary levels
  Expand Summary — View summaries in a full-page overlay for better readability
  40+ Languages — Choose your summary language from Arabic to Vietnamese
  Popup or Sidebar — Use as a compact popup or a persistent sidebar panel with shared session state
  Free to Use — The extension itself is free. You connect it with your ChatGPT/OpenAI account. OpenAI offers a free ChatGPT tier for many users, but availability, supported features, and usage limits depend on OpenAI's current policies and your account status.
  
  What's new in 1.2.0:
  - Stop Summarization: Cancel ongoing summarization requests mid-flight with a new Stop button
  - Dynamic Page Content Extraction: Improved support for JavaScript-heavy pages (Atlassian, Google Dev Blog, etc.) that now wait for content to load before extracting
  - Unicode-Safe Text Processing: Fixed extraction to properly handle Cyrillic, CJK, and all non-Latin text
  - Enhanced Summary Overlay Typography: Prevents host page styles from overriding the modal's font stack
  
  What's new in 1.1.1:
  - Fixed packaging bug: all runtime module directories now included in release ZIP
  - Added release validation checks to ensure complete builds
  - Restored Connect button functionality and tabGroups permission usage
  
  What’s new in 1.1.0:
  
  Live auto-refresh for Tab Group and Reading List selections
  Shared popup/sidebar context and persisted summary/error session state
  Quick item actions: close tabs or remove Reading List entries directly in lists
  New summary levels: Short, Medium, Detailed
  Expand Summary overlay on the active tab with improved restricted-page error messaging
  How to use:
  
  Group your tabs (right-click a tab -> "Add tab to new group")
  Click the extension icon to open the popup
  Select a tab group or switch to Reading List mode
  Choose your language and summary level, then click "Summarize Selected"
  Review the summary in the popup, or expand it to a full-page overlay
  Privacy: This extension extracts text content from web pages you choose and sends it to ChatGPT's API for summarization. No data is stored, sold, or shared beyond what is necessary for the extension to function. See our full privacy policy at: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
  
  Official website: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer
  
  Share your improvement ideas and questions here: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/issues

• May 11, 2026
  short_description

  Free AI summarizer for tabs, tab groups, and reading lists

  Free AI summarizer for tabs, tab groups, and reading lists. Get instant summaries in 40+ languages with ChatGPT.

• Apr 29, 2026
  description

  A Chrome Extension (Manifest V3) that reads the content of the current tab, selected tabs from a tab group, or pages from Chrome's Reading List, summarizes them using the ChatGPT Codex API, and presents the result in a pop-up or persistent sidebar panel.
  
  Free to Use
  
  This extension itself is free to use. You need a ChatGPT/OpenAI account to connect it. OpenAI offers a free ChatGPT tier for many users, so you may be able to start without a paid subscription. Availability, supported features, and
  usage limits depend on OpenAI's current policies and your account status, and may change over time. Check [OpenAI's official pricing and usage documentation](https://openai.com/pricing) for the latest details.
  
  Features
  
  - 📄 Current Tab Summarization — Summarize the active tab with one click (default mode)
  - 📑 Tab Group Summarization — Extract and summarize all tabs in a selected tab group
  - 📖 Reading List Summarization — Summarize pages saved to Chrome's Reading List (read-only)
  - 🤖 AI-powered summarization via ChatGPT Codex API with streaming responses
  - 🔐 OAuth 2.0 PKCE authentication — Sign in with your OpenAI/ChatGPT account, with automatic token refresh
  - 🌐 Summary Language Selector — Choose output language from 40+ languages (A-Z sorted)
  - 📌 Popup / Sidebar Display Mode — Toggle between a compact popup and a persistent sidebar panel
  - 🐛 Debug Console — Optional debug logging (toggle OFF by default)
  - 🎨 Clean, modern UI with progress tracking and error handling
  
  Using the Extension
  
  Current Tab Mode (default)
  
  - Open the tab you want to summarize
  - Click the extension icon to open the pop-up
  - Choose a summary language from the language selector
  - Click "Summarize Selected" to start the summarization
  - Review the summary in the pop-up
  
  Tab Group Mode
  
  - Group your tabs: Right-click any tab → "Add tab to new group" (or add to an existing group)
  - Switch the source to "Tab Group" using the "Summarize From" dropdown
  - Select a tab group from the dropdown
  - Select pages you want to include (or use Select All / Deselect All)
  - Choose a summary language from the language selector
  - Click "Summarize Selected" to start the summarization
  - Review the summary in the pop-up
  
  Reading List Mode
  
  - Switch the source to "Reading List" using the "Summarize From" dropdown
  - Select pages from your Chrome Reading List
  - Choose a summary language
  - Click "Summarize Selected" to start the summarization
  - Review the summary
  
  Popup / Sidebar Mode Toggle
  
  - By default, the extension opens as a pop-up when you click the toolbar icon.
  - Click the 📌 Sidebar button in the top-right corner to switch to sidebar mode.
  - - In sidebar mode, clicking the toolbar icon opens/closes the side panel.
  - Click the 📌 Popup button in the sidebar to switch back to popup mode.
  - Your display mode preference is persisted across browser sessions.

  Free AI summarizer for tabs, tab groups, and reading lists. Get instant summaries in 40+ languages with ChatGPT.
  
  Simple Tab Summarizer uses AI to summarize web pages, tab groups, and reading lists — saving you time and screen space.
  
  Features:
  
  Current Tab Summary — Get a quick summary of the active tab with one click
  Tab Group Summarization — Select and summarize all tabs in a group at once with live auto-refresh
  Reading List Summarization — Summarize pages saved to Chrome's Reading List with live auto-refresh
  Configurable Verbosity — Choose between Short, Medium, or Detailed summary levels
  Expand Summary — View summaries in a full-page overlay for better readability
  40+ Languages — Choose your summary language from Arabic to Vietnamese
  Popup or Sidebar — Use as a compact popup or a persistent sidebar panel with shared session state
  Free to Use — The extension itself is free. You connect it with your ChatGPT/OpenAI account. OpenAI offers a free ChatGPT tier for many users, but availability, supported features, and usage limits depend on OpenAI's current policies and your account status.
  
  What's new in 1.1.1:
  - Fixed packaging bug: all runtime module directories now included in release ZIP
  - Added release validation checks to ensure complete builds
  - Restored Connect button functionality and tabGroups permission usage
  
  What’s new in 1.1.0:
  
  Live auto-refresh for Tab Group and Reading List selections
  Shared popup/sidebar context and persisted summary/error session state
  Quick item actions: close tabs or remove Reading List entries directly in lists
  New summary levels: Short, Medium, Detailed
  Expand Summary overlay on the active tab with improved restricted-page error messaging
  How to use:
  
  Group your tabs (right-click a tab -> "Add tab to new group")
  Click the extension icon to open the popup
  Select a tab group or switch to Reading List mode
  Choose your language and summary level, then click "Summarize Selected"
  Review the summary in the popup, or expand it to a full-page overlay
  Privacy: This extension extracts text content from web pages you choose and sends it to ChatGPT's API for summarization. No data is stored, sold, or shared beyond what is necessary for the extension to function. See our full privacy policy at: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
  
  Official website: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer
  
  Share your improvement ideas and questions here: https://github.com/DimazzzZ/simple-tab-summarizer/issues

Permissions & access

Permissions

tabGroupstabsscriptingstoragereadingListsidePanel

Host access

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