You are on the hunt for interesting articles around the web, open 100 tabs and end up… not reading them. Sounds familiar?
AI Summary Helper (AISH) turns that pile into a reading habit. It gives you a short overview of any article, PDF or YouTube video in your own language, in the browser's side panel. Bring your own key for OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral AI or DeepSeek, or run an open model locally with Ollama: no account needed, and the page text goes only to the provider you chose, or nowhere at all. Follow your favorite sites in a built-in RSS reader, ask follow-up questions, and keep everything in a searchable archive. Then send a digest to your Kindle or another device, so you read what you picked on purpose.
At a glance
- Free and open source (AGPL-3.0; commercial use can be licensed). No account for your own key or local models. Optional byphil Cloud has a small free daily allowance; a donation (the Support Pass) unlocks many more AI models and unlimited use.
- Private by design. Library, highlights and statistics are stored in the browser. No tracking or analytics SDKs. See the privacy policy.
- Answers you can check. Follow-up answers point to the passage they come from; quotes that are not in the article are discarded.
- Your language. Summaries in 41 languages, interface in 14.
- Shortcut.
Ctrl+Shift+E (⌘+Shift+E on Mac).
- New in 2.2. A split view for large screens and a research mode for scientific papers (see below).
Screenshots
Images for press and reviews live in assets/press/.
Pick how you want to use it
| 🧩 Browser extension | 🔖 Bookmarklet |
|---|
| Install | Chrome Web Store, Firefox & Safari builds below | Nothing: drag one link to your bookmarks bar |
| Works on | Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Android | Any browser and OS, even iOS |
| Best for | Daily reading: history, search, RSS, highlights | Quick use on devices where extensions can't run |
| Get it | Add to Chrome | Create your bookmarklet |
What you get
- Summaries of pages, PDFs and YouTube videos. With your model: the byphil Cloud gives you access to most LLMs with no API key of your own. Or bring your own key for OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, or run Ollama locally.
- Conversational summaries. Ask follow-up questions; answers cite the page and jump to the exact passage. Pin the good ones into the summary.
- Research mode (2.2). Recognises scientific papers, extracts design, sample and funding, and builds citations from the DOI registry. Group papers in collections.
- Split view (2.2). On large screens, the list, knowledge graph and analytics sit side by side.
- Read aloud. Listen while the answer is written.
- Built-in RSS reader. Follow sites, filter by source, tag, date or mood, import OPML, get an optional AI recap of the day.
- Highlights and ghost highlights. Mark text yourself or let the AI mark the key passages. Start a summary straight from the on-page highlights panel.
- A searchable archive. On-device full-text search, a knowledge graph of your saves, and an analytics report of your reading.
- Read it later, on purpose. "Summarize & Close" saves a tab with a reminder; the digest sends a varied selection to Kindle or LocalSend.
- Notes and comments. Select text on any page and choose ✏️ highlight, 💬 highlight with a comment, or 📝 note with the quote. They live in a Notes tab (list or sticky-note grid, by article, by tag) and in the page's highlights panel.
- Library sync, backup and publishing. Keep your library in step across your devices, back it up, or publish part of it, on your own storage: a Nextcloud/WebDAV server, an S3-compatible bucket (AWS, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, MinIO) or a folder on your computer. Encrypted places are encrypted in your browser (one passphrase) and sync both ways; readable places publish plain files and an optional viewer page with search, a timeline, a tag graph and an immersive 3D "Sky" of your saves. Nothing leaves your device until you add a place. See Library sync.
- Your language. 41 summary languages (including Traditional and Simplified Chinese) and an interface in 14 languages.
- Export. Markdown and Obsidian export alongside Send to Kindle and LocalSend.
How sending works. Send to Kindle goes through the byPhil backend, because Amazon only accepts documents by email from approved senders: add [email protected] to your approved senders in your Amazon account. The free tier includes 3 Kindle sends; unlimited Kindle sends require the Support Pass. LocalSend (and the system share sheet, e.g. AirDrop) is direct: the file goes from your browser to the device you pick, works with any device running a LocalSend-compatible app, and never touches our server. See the privacy policy.
Extension vs bookmarklet
| Bookmarklet | Browser Extension |
|---|
| OpenAI | ✅ | ✅ |
| Mistral AI | ✅ | ✅ |
| DeepSeek | ✅ | ✅ |
| Gemini | ✅ | ✅ |
| Ollama (Local) | ✅ | ✅ |
| byPhil Cloud (no API key) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom Prompt | ✅ | ✅ Base + custom prompt per request |
| Cross Platform | ✅ | ❌ |
| Text Highlighting | ❌ | ✅ |
| Article History & Archive | ❌ | ✅ |
| Save for Later (Tab Close) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Context Menu Actions | ❌ | ✅ |
| Backup & Restore | ❌ | ✅ |
| Sync between devices (Nextcloud, S3, folder), encrypted | ❌ | ✅ |
| Notes and comments on highlights | ❌ | ✅ |
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