TLDR Sidebar adds a one-click Summarize panel to Chrome. Open the side panel on any page, hit Summarize, and get a concise bullet-point TLDR streamed in as it's generated — using your own OpenRouter API key, so you choose the model and pay your own usage. There is no TLDR Sidebar server.

Features

• —One-click summaries in Chrome's side panel
• —Bring your own OpenRouter key — pick any model (Claude, GPT, …)
• —Streamed output, rendered as Markdown
• —Private by design — page text goes straight to OpenRouter, nowhere else
• —On demand only — nothing is read or sent until you click Summarize

Permissions & data

• Read the current page — extract its text, only when you click Summarize
• Side panel — where the summary is shown
• Local storage — saves your API key, model, and prompt on-device (not synced)

Read the privacy policy →

Uses third-party services: OpenRouter.