Best AI Tools with Browser Extensions
Many AI tools include browser extensions that let you perform various tasks with ease and without leaving the browser.
This can come in particularly handy for those who regularly need to summarize and/or rephrase articles. Instead of copy/pasting the content in ChatGPT, these tools let you do the same inside the browser. And since most of these tools rely on the same engine that powers ChatGPT (OpenAI’s GPT model), you will get the same result.
In addition, there are other tools that will, for instance, provide you with quick answers to any question you may have — again without leaving the browser.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Here are some of the best AI tools that include browse extensions:
Grammarly by Grammarly Inc.
👍 Pros
👎 Cons
- It can make a huge difference in your writing style and tone
- Helps you craft much better and more effective emails
- Helpful in generating new article ideas with GrammarlyGO
- Currently, Grammarly supports only the English language
Grammarly is an AI-powered tool that assists with writing. It’s like a companion guiding you toward creating clearer, error-free content. As of March 2023, Grammarly has over 30 million daily active users.
What makes Grammarly really is the way it organizes your writing feedback by theme. As a result, you get to see how each change you make will help your readers better understand what you’re trying to convey. So, by using Grammarly, you ensure your audience gets your message as you intended.
Grammarly is accessible from wherever you need it. There are desktop apps for Windows and Mac computers, mobile apps, browser extensions as well as integration with popular document editors such as MS Word and Google Docs. When installed as a browser extension or desktop app, it will pop out everywhere, suggesting wording corrections as you type.
The important thing to note is that Grammarly goes beyond spell-checking as it can actually understand what you’re writing and make meaningful suggestions. It considers your writing’s style and tone to improve your overall communication. In a way, it acts as a writing coach you can always invoke with a click.
To sum it up, Grammarly makes sure your writing is much better. Its suggestions make texts easier to read and understand. After all, there is a reason why it has that many users and growing.
SciSpace by PubGenius Inc.
👍 Pros
👎 Cons
- Get answers from 272 million research papers
- Citation generator is a true time-saving tool
- The browser extension is a must-have tool for researchers
- AI-generated explanations might lack depth
SciSpace is one of those indispensable services for modern researchers. It’s actually a collection of different AI-powered tools that together make researchers’ lives that much easier.
For instance, it is a search engine curated for science, providing relevant answers from 272 million papers. Some of the questions you can ask include “How does climate change impact biodiversity?”, “Why are aging COVID patients more susceptible to severe complications?”, “How does social media affect the college selection process?”, “What are the interesting theories about dark matter and dark energy?”, and so on and on.
In addition, SciSpace lets you upload a research paper (PDF) and get answers backed by citations.
Speaking of citations, the tool provides a generator for them. Pick a source — upload a file, paste text or enter a URL — and select a citation style. There are more than 2,500 citation styles to choose from, including popular ones such as American Psychological Association 7th edition, Modern Language Association 9th edition, Begell House – Chicago Manual of Style, Elsevier – Vancouver, and many others.
There is also the Scholarly Paraphrasing Tool that can make your academic writing more clear, allowing you to write in more tones and languages than the popular rephrasing tool Quillbot.
Plus, we have an Academic AI Detector that can catch GPT-generated content and the ever-handy Chrome extension that lets you bring SciSpace’s tools with you across the web.
Heyday by Canopy Labs
👍 Pros
👎 Cons
- Create a knowledge base that fills itself
- Enhances browsers and search engines and resurfaces content from popular services
- Includes 1:1 support directly from co-founders in Slack
- Android app is still not available
Heyday is promoted as an AI-powered memory assistant that “makes knowledge workers smarter” by resurfacing content you forgot about while you browse the web. As such, it promises to help users “remember more with no extra effort” with enhanced search, enhanced reading, and the ability to create their own knowledge base they can tune into at a later date.
The tool resurfaces documents, messages, files, newsletters, notes, presentations, spreadsheets, tweets, and more by tuning into the most popular web apps, services and platforms you already use.
Available as a browser extension, Heyday will work in most browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, and Vivaldi. There is also a mobile app, which at the moment only works for iOS devices.
Scholarcy
👍 Pros
👎 Cons
- Makes long text short(er) and easier to grasp
- Saves hours and hours of research
- Even though it's made for researchers, students will love it just as well
- It's primarily made for researchers, for others - there are better solutions out there
Scholarcy is an AI-powered summarizer tool ideal for heavy readers of texts from across the Interwebs.
One of its key audiences are researchers who are having a hard time keeping up with the latest research. For them, going through millions of new research articles published each year could be a nightmare. That is not the case with Scholarcy, which can summarize all that text with ease — saving hundreds of hours along the way.
The tool will go beyond paraphrasing abstracts and is also capable of extracting the key facts, figures and more in seconds. It does that by creating a summary flashcard of any article, report or document in Word or PDF format. Moreover, Scholarcy also includes links to open-access versions of cited sources and can be configured to extract figures, tables and images.
What makes it even better is Scholarcy’s browser extension that will let you summarize the world wide web. So, whenever you find an interesting article online, you can summarize it with a single click without leaving your browsers.
In that sense, beyond different researchers, Scholarcy could also be an indispensable tool for journalists, students, and librarians, among others.
Lunabot
👍 Pros
👎 Cons
- Makes ChatGPT easily accessible across platforms and devices
- Works with most popular web browsers
- Also integrates with Telegram and Siri
- Free plan is rather limited
Lunabot is a ChatGPT connector tool that lets you access the popular service right inside the apps and from the platforms you use the most.
It offers web and desktop apps; browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox; as well as a Telegram Bot and a Siri shortcut.
Once enabled, Lunabot will let you use ChatGPT shortcuts to translate, summarize, explain, fix grammar, compose, and more with customized commands — and use the ChatGPT sidebar on any website.
Once you install the tool (web or mobile app), all you have to do is select the text, start Lunabot and then select what you want to do with it. Or you can fire up the AI writer while reading some text – that is also possible with Lunabot.
In Telegram, Lunabot works like a bot, while on Siri-enabled devices – it can be installed as a shortcut and then ignited with “Hey Siri.”
In all cases, you get access to the full power of ChatGPT. And we love that.
What can AI-powered browser extensions do for you?
As we’ve noted above, these tools let you do many things without leaving your web browser. And since many of us “live” in a browser these days, it makes a lot of sense to use these kinds of tools. Here are some of the things these tools could do for you:
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Create content
Some of these tools provide you with quick and easy access to ChatGPT right inside a web browser. As a result, you get to create all kinds of textual content, such as articles, blog posts, social media content, and more. Plus, because they can also integrate with other tools, you may even be able to generate images from the browser.
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Summarization
Again, because these tools get their “power” from OpenAI’s GPT tech, they are able to summarize all kinds of content with a single click. You just select the text you want to summarize and press the appropriate button. The AI will do it all for you.
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Rephrasing
Similarly, AI can also rephrase content for you – creating a new article on your behalf. You can either do this on the entire page (article) or select the text you want to rephrase. And voila, the technology will do the hard work on your behalf.
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Instant answers
Have a question on any subject? And we do mean pretty much any subject people have ever written about? AI tools with browser extensions let you pose your question and get the answer while browsing the web. No need to switch between the tabs.
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Advice and chat
Finally, and related to the previous point, AI can also provide you with advice on many subjects. You can ask a question and then continue “arguing” with AI until you get the response you’re looking for. It’s like chatting with the world’s best experts.
As you can see, an AI-powered browser extension can be extremely handy as you get to save some time along the way. Instead of switching between multiple tabs, you get to “do AI” while in the browser. And that’s pretty cool.