The Source Apps The Source Apps
Focused tools for working with source material.
Independent tools. Shared philosophy.
Summarize articles and videos, collect your research, and save online video for your next project or article. Each app focuses on one job, so it is easier to find what you need, stay organized and spend more time creating.
SourceSummary
Understand more
Turn information into understanding.
A Chrome extension that gives you the main points of articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, webpages and selected text, using the AI provider you choose.
- Pick a quick list of key points, a readable post or a detailed summary.
- Summarize a YouTube video from its captions, with timestamps that jump back to the moment.
- Connect OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek or Grok with your own API key, and switch whenever you like.
- Search every summary in your history, and export to PDF, Markdown or ZIP.
- Save your own prompts for study notes, research or article drafts.
- Platform
- Chrome extension
- Price
- Free to install. You pay your AI provider for what you use.
- Account
- None
- Your data
- Settings, keys and history stay in your browser. Text goes straight to the provider you pick.
SourceClip
Save what matters
Collect and organize the sources you care about.
A web library and browser extension for saving pages, selected text, images, screenshots, links and files, and finding them again when you need them.
- Save to your Inbox in one click, then sort into your Library with tags, favorites and collections.
- Highlight passages and add notes, including in PDFs.
- Search everything you saved, and filter by type or tag.
- Import bookmarks or a Pocket, Instapaper or Readwise export, and export your library at any time.
- Publish a profile and chosen collections as public pages if you want to share them.
- Platform
- Web app and Chrome extension
- Price
- Free
- Account
- A SourceClip account (email, Google or Apple)
- Your data
- Kept in your SourceClip library online, so it is there in any browser you sign in to.
SourceMedia
Capture for later
Save and manage video and audio sources.
A Mac app that saves video from the web into a searchable library on your Mac, keeps track of where each file came from, and helps you find the original again for editing or reference.
- Download supported videos by URL, with progress and the option to cancel.
- Keep the source address, capture time and media details with every file.
- Add titles, notes and tags, then search and filter the library.
- Archive what you no longer need without deleting it.
- Show any file in Finder to open it in your editor.
In development
- Platform
- macOS
- Availability
- In development, not available yet
- Account
- None
- Your data
- Files and the library stay on your Mac.
Independent tools. Shared philosophy.
One job each
Each app does one thing well: summarize, collect, or capture. Use the one you need.
Independent by design
Separate apps with separate accounts and data. Nothing is shared between them, and none needs the others.
Clear about your data
Each app says where your material is kept: in your browser, in your SourceClip library, or on your Mac.
Made for work with sources
For writers, journalists, producers and researchers who gather material online and come back to it later.
Made by Three Things Media
The Source Apps are built by Three Things Media, an independent software publisher in Ingolstadt, Germany. The apps share a look and a way of working, but each one stands on its own, with its own site, help and support.
Questions about the apps or the company: info@threethingsmedia.de.