Browser extensions and web reading
Browser reading and clipping tools
Browser extensions and tools that summarize, simplify, highlight, clip, or extract web page content (often with AI) so readers, researchers, and developers can digest, save, or reuse it.
Built for: Online readers, researchers, and developers
Projects since May 04
220
Different builders
206
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+7%
AI is the core
43%
Projects per week
Mostly browser extension (75%), web app (10%), api or backend service (5.5%) · from r/chrome_extensions, r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/SaaS
Latest
- KeepScroll — Saves shared links from social and web sources and generates AI summaries of their content.“KeepScroll: an iPhone app for saving videos and posts with AI summaries”
- highlight and understand — Explains highlighted words or phrases in a popup, giving general and in-context meanings with follow-up questions.“highlight and understand”
- EasyRead — Shows a research paper as a reading view beside the original PDF, with translation, highlights, notes, and AI questions on selected passages.“I built an open-source paper reader because I was tired of reading research through PDF translations and chat windows”
- Twinread — Shows bilingual page translations under each paragraph using Chrome's on-device translator and lets users save words from selected text.“Bilingual page translation that runs on Chrome's built-in translator (nothing leaves your computer)”
- Bintu — Extracts readable text from public HTML pages and returns it as JSON.“looking for developers”
- writenode — Captures highlights, notes, and AI responses from web pages into a searchable, auto-linked memory layer in the browser.“I built a floating research layer for Chrome — it remembers what your tabs were about so you don't have to”
- Web Markups — Annotates live webpages, takes screenshots, and records browser tabs.“Web Markups reached 63 installs—thanks to everyone who’s tried it!”
- domscout — Renders a web page in Chromium and returns its Markdown, links, metadata, and a screenshot as one JSON response.“Rendered-page to Markdown + links + screenshot in one call.”
- HueMark — Highlights up to six search terms at once across a webpage and PDFs in the browser, with keyboard navigation between matches.“I would like to introduce HueMark - Multi-Word Search Extension”
- Extended Mind — Saves book and article highlights from any app or browser and lets you search, filter, and map them by country and year.“I built a personal app for saving and exploring highlights from books and articles”
- FocusReader — Saves selected web article passages with their page title and source URL and exports them as Markdown.“A Chrome quote saver that keeps the source URL in your Markdown export”
- Context Atlas — Answers questions about the current webpage by returning ranked source passages and highlighting the supporting text on the page.“Chrome extension that answers you on the page you are reading”
- domscout — Loads a web page in Chromium and returns its Markdown, links, metadata, and a screenshot as one JSON response.“Rendered-page to Markdown + links + screenshot in one call. No-key demo if you want to have a try at it”
- HodoClip — Clips selected web page text with its source link and timestamp into a side-panel Markdown notepad that can be copied or exported as PDF.“HodoClip: clip the web with source”
- Attention — Suggests whether to read, skim, or skip an article based on the user's saved interests and goals, and points to relevant passages.“The same article can be useful to one person and redundant to another — I built a Chrome extension around that idea”
- Context Atlas — Finds passages on the open webpage that match a natural-language question by meaning and lets you jump to them in context.“Chrome extension for when Cmd/Ctrl + F is not enough”
- EnConvert — Provides API endpoints that extract clean Markdown from web pages and PDF/DOCX files, convert file formats, and summarize content.“We launched EnConvert on Product Hunt today: a unified ingestion API for AI agents and RAG pipelines”
- base-parser-tg-bot-fast-api — Generates parsers automatically with a Python script and exposes them through a FastAPI backend and a Telegram bot.“I got tired of ordering a one time freelancer for creating parser so i did script to automate it on python.”
- Turns a block of plain text into a formatted web page.“i spent a whole evening debugging why my generated pages looked broken and the answer was embarrassing”
- SourceShelf — Saves highlighted quotes from web pages with their source title and URL, and organizes them into folders with notes and tags.“I built a Chrome extension to save quotes with their sources so you don't lose them (free, private, no account needed).”
Most discussed
- Jexi — Turns PDF, DOCX, YouTube and video inputs into structured summaries and reports, translated into multiple languages.“How do you actually find customers for a niche AI SaaS?”
- Lets users draw, highlight, add sticky notes and take screenshots directly on top of any live website.“My extension just crossed 1,000 free users. Need to figure out how to monetize it without breaking what made it work”
- aigr.ee — Publishes AI-generated summaries of terms of service and privacy policies for popular online services and alerts subscribers by email when those documents change.“I built a tool I thought useful but I get zero engagement”
- Click Translate — Translates a clicked block of text on a web page or replaces a highlighted section with its translation in place.“I finally added monetization to my tiny Chrome extension... and Paddle fees shocked me”
- GoPeek — Previews links in a floating window or sidebar without leaving the current page.“I built an extension to preview links without opening 47 new tabs (and my struggle to get beta testers)”
- Crawlable — Turns web pages into structured data through a no-code interface, with ready-made scrapers for common sites.“There are 20+ web scraping tools. I'm building #21”
- Savage Scraper — Converts the rendered webpage open in Chrome into simplified HTML and copies it to the clipboard, and optionally exposes allowed pages to MCP clients.“I built a Chrome scraper for LLMs, then accidentally ended up building a security-restricted MCP server too”
- Saves links and lets users find them later by describing what they are looking for in plain language, with AI summaries and semantic search.“Seeking advices on my web app”
- SelectorLock — Scrapes web pages from a schema and automatically repairs broken CSS selectors using an LLM when a site changes.“Built a scraper that fixes its own broken selectors when a site redesigns”
- Curio — Explains a clicked or selected word or phrase inline within the text, using the surrounding sentence as context.“I built Curio so you can click a word and understand it without leaving the paragraph”