Gemini AI is the powered generative AI product of Google. Here, Gemini is expanding its era with doing awesome chemistry with extension. Google has plus points to expand Gemini AI by the Android and Chrome apps to the devices, which adds mostly extensions in-app to make a more productive AI app.
Recently, Gemini AI upgraded a feature in the YouTube extension, which allows you to create a text-based summary of the YouTube videos. This feature enhances the usage of Gemini AI by the help of understanding the whole video in summarized text content. It is a really amazing feature; it reduces the tangled and gets more concise views before watching videos. Let’s explore it more.
How to Use YouTube Extension for Text-Based Summarizing
- Open the Gemini AI App
- Paste the link in prompt
- Asked to summarize the YouTube Video Links
- You will get the text based summary

We followed the steps and pasted the “Project Astra“ YouTube video link, and it summarized in the text format, where it wrote, “This video is about Project Astra, a universal AI assistant. It shows how Project Astra can be used to complete various tasks, such as remembering door codes, providing laundry instructions, searching for places, answering questions about pronunciation, and many more.
Does It Work on Desktop?
Yes! This YouTube extension’s upgraded features also work on desktops and laptops as well. Well, the Gemini app is not available on desktop for Windows, Mac, etc. But users can use it on web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc.) and WebCatLog (for Mac and Windows) by visiting gemini.google.com.
Is It Available for free or Subscription?
We tried this latest feature on Gemini 1.5 flash, which is all free for users. Also, it runs on Gemini Advanced as well as Gemini 2.0. It is worth noticing that features may differ depending on subscription, and results may vary. That means the efficiency of the feature working could be dependent on Gemini versions, and results may also be different according to the version