🚀 Sidebar AI: Your All-in-One AI Assistant for Chrome

Unlock the full potential of AI directly in your browser. Sidebar AI is your powerful, private, and highly customizable copilot for understanding and interacting with the digital world. Summarize complex articles, analyze PDFs, get instant replies for emails, extract key information from videos, and much more—all from a convenient side panel.

By using your own API key, you are always in complete control of your data, your costs, and your choice of AI model.

💪 Key Features:

🧠 Smart Analysis & Summarization

• Analyze Anything: Get summaries and insights from web pages, uploaded PDFs, pasted text, and external web links.

• YouTube Summaries: Instantly get a summary of any YouTube video's transcript without watching the whole thing.

• Context Menu Integration: Right-click any page, link, or selected text to start an analysis immediately.

• Persistent Memory: Summaries are saved for each tab during your session, so you don't lose your work when you switch tabs.

• Intelligent Content Extraction: Uses an advanced Readability.js-based process to pull clean, relevant text from cluttered web pages for higher-quality results.

✍️ Advanced Content Creation & Writing

• Email Assistant: Get context-aware summary reports and suggested replies (formal and casual) directly on webmail pages like Gmail and Outlook.

• Rewriting & Reformatting: Use the "Full/Revise" mode with custom prompts to rewrite, proofread, or reformat entire documents or pasted text.

• Context-Aware Prompts: Go beyond simple input. Prompts like "Write Cover Letter" can use your pasted resume details alongside the content of a job description page for highly relevant drafts.

• Huge Prompt Library: Get started instantly with a vast library of pre-built prompts for common tasks like translation, sentiment analysis, fact-checking, and more.

⚙️ Unmatched Customization & Control

• Bring Your Own Key (BYOAK): Securely use your own API keys for Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. Your data is sent directly to the AI provider you choose—never to us.

• Advanced Model Configuration: Power users can select specific AI models (e.g., GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Flash), and set parameters like "temperature" and "max tokens" for each service.

• Per-Mode Defaults: Set different default output settings (Length, Format, Style) for Page, Text, and URL analysis to perfectly match your workflow.

• Prompt Management: Save, edit, and manage your own library of custom prompts for instant reuse.

✨ Unique Productivity Tools

• Event & Calendar Extraction: Automatically identifies events, appointments, and deadlines within text. Displayed results include one-click "Add to Calendar" links for Google and Outlook.

• Smart Format Suggestions: The AI can analyze the content and suggest a better output format (e.g., suggesting a 'Timeline' for historical text) to improve clarity.

• Favorites & History: Save frequently used web links to your favorites for quick access. A full history of your summaries allows you to revisit your work.

• Personalized Themes: Customize the look and feel of the side panel with themes and a custom accent color picker.

🔐 How It Works & Your Privacy

This extension operates on a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) model, designed to give you maximum privacy and control.

• You Are in Control: You need an API key from an AI provider (like Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic) to use the extension's core features.

• Stored Locally: Your API keys are stored securely and only on your local computer using chrome.storage.local. They are never transmitted to our servers.

• Direct Connection: When you run an analysis, your content is sent directly from your browser to the AI provider you've configured. Your content is never sent to or stored by the Sidebar AI developers. 19191919

• Cost Management: You are responsible for any costs associated with your API key usage, based on the pricing of your chosen AI provider.

🚀 Getting Started in 60 Seconds

1. Click the "Add to Chrome" button and pin the Sidebar AI icon to your toolbar.

2. Open the side panel (Click the icon or press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+S).

3. Click the Settings ⚙️ icon in the top-left.

4. Select your preferred AI Service from the dropdown.

5. Paste your API Key into the input field and click "Save & Validate Key".

6. You're ready to go! Start analyzing pages, text, or links.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Do I need a ChatGPT or Gemini account?

You need an API Key from one of them. Our settings panel includes a link and instructions to help you get a free key from Google for the Gemini models.

2. Is the extension free to use?

Yes, the extension itself is completely free. You are responsible only for the usage costs of your own API key, which are billed to you directly by your chosen AI provider (Google, OpenAI, etc.). 

📪 Contact & Feedback

Have questions or a great idea for a new feature? We'd love to hear from you! Please use the "Feedback or Feature Request" link inside the extension's footer.