Take your transcripts to the AI you already use

Which one do you need? A short guide

Every integration here works the same way, so it helps to know that first. Claras doesn't link to your accounts. When you click Send to AI and pick a tool, Claras copies the text to your clipboard and opens that tool's new-chat page in a new tab. You paste, you ask, and the conversation stays in that tool. Nothing comes back to Claras, and sending doesn't count toward your plan.

What gets copied is the whole thing: a video's full transcript with a time on every line, or its summary, with a short note on top telling the assistant what it is and to use it as the source for your questions. After a Bulk Summaries run, you can copy every transcript from a playlist or a YouTube search at once.

The useful question is which tool suits the job in front of you.

You want a quick answer about one public YouTube video

Try Gemini on its own first. Google says it can use public YouTube information to understand a video, if you're signed in with Keep Activity on. Bring the Claras transcript when you want to read the words, check the answer, or work on something that isn't on YouTube.

You want to work through a long video, or many

Claude is one of the two tools Claras suggests once a paste passes about 400,000 characters. Anthropic's upload and web guides don't describe Claude watching video, so the transcript is how it gets the content.

You use ChatGPT every day

Keep the conversation where your other chats are. ChatGPT can use a YouTube video's captions through OpenAI's browser extension. Claras covers the videos that route doesn't, such as YouTube without captions, Instagram, TikTok and your own files, and gives you a transcript you can keep.

You want a notebook you can come back to

Gemini Notebook, which Google renamed from NotebookLM in July 2026, keeps sources together and answers from them. It already takes public YouTube links with captions, and audio files from your computer. Claras adds YouTube videos without captions, Instagram and TikTok as pasted text, including a whole playlist at once.

You want to check what a video claims

Perplexity answers with linked web sources, so it suits checking facts in a podcast or a review. Paste the transcript, ask it to list each claim with its time, and check each one.

You use a different tool

The menu has these five and can't be changed. For anything else, copy the transcript or summary from the Copy menu in the web app, or use Copy transcript in the extension's Send to AI menu, and paste it wherever you work. You can also download the transcript or summary as a text file.

Where to find Send to AI

In the web app, it sits at the bottom of the Summary and Transcript tabs, next to Download. In the Chrome extension, it is in the Transcript tab, next to Download and Create. After a Bulk Summaries run, it is at the bottom of the Summary and Transcripts tabs. The Send to AI page walks through it in detail.

Limits that apply everywhere

It is copy and paste, so each tool's own limits apply, including how much text it accepts. If you copy something else before pasting, the transcript is gone from the clipboard: click Send to AI again. You still need the video in Claras first, and each video you open counts toward your plan. The free plan includes 3 a month. Try it with a free account, or see pricing for more.