Unbait replaces clickbait headlines with clear titles and gives you AI-powered summaries to decide what's worth reading. Works on news sites and YouTube.
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Unbait finds all article headlines or YouTube video titles on the page you're viewing.
For each headline, it fetches the article or YouTube transcript to understand the actual content.
Vague or misleading headlines are rewritten into clear, specific titles. Good ones stay untouched.
Browse with clear titles. Click any headline icon for an instant AI summary and verdict: read, optional, or skip.
Enable per-site automatic de-clickbaiting. Headlines are rewritten as soon as you visit the page.
Click the Unbait icon next to any title to toggle back to the original headline.
Bring your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini. Your data goes directly to your chosen provider over HTTPS, never through a third-party server. No subscriptions, no middleman.
Enable for any news site, tech blog, or content aggregator. Only clickbait headlines get rewritten - clear titles are left untouched.
Click any headline for an instant AI-powered summary and verdict: worth reading, optional, or skip. Know what's inside before you click through.
Rewrites clickbait video titles, replaces sensational thumbnails with neutral frames, and generates AI summaries using the video transcript. Configurable depth for both titles and summaries.
AI-generated titles are the model's best guess, not objective truths. Nuance can get lost, or the AI may emphasize a detail that isn't the main point. You're trading the editor's sensationalism for an algorithm's interpretation. The original title is always one click away.
Clickbait exploits the curiosity gap: the space between what you know and what you want to know. A clear title closes that gap, letting you decide calmly whether to read on.
Unbait needs to briefly fetch each article. Articles behind login walls or paywalls cannot be read, so those headlines stay unchanged.
Unbait only processes content you already have access to in your browser. Brief excerpts are sent to your AI provider to generate better titles and summaries. No original article text or transcripts are stored or redistributed. Only the generated titles and summaries are cached locally for 7 days.
Your browser may warn that Unbait can "read and modify webpages." This is needed to read headlines and replace them with better ones. Unbait only activates on sites you explicitly enable and does not access any site without your permission. No data is collected and nothing is sent anywhere except to your chosen AI provider.
Install from the Chrome Web Store or the Mac App Store (for Safari).
Choose your provider to see setup instructions:
Model: Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cost: < $0.01 per page, < $0.01 per 15 YouTube videos · Speed: ~5s news, ~12s YouTube · Fastest
Why Anthropic? Best title quality, especially for non-English headlines. Streaming shows results as they arrive. Most reliable JSON output.
Click the Unbait icon in your browser toolbar, select your provider, paste your API key, and click "Unbait!" or enable Always On for your favorite sites. To enable YouTube support, toggle the YouTube option in the extension popup.
Unbait is free and open source. If it saves you from clickbait, consider buying me a beer.