Merlin Reviews

The primary reason I liked Merlin and continued using it was its ability to instantly capture key points and summaries from YouTube videos and provide summaries for better learning. Lately, the feature has stopped showing up on the right side of YouTube videos. I used to use it to get scene-by-scene summaries, key points, and complete summaries of any video. Without this immediate YouTube functionality, Merlin has very little use for me.

Another missing feature is that whenever I wrote an email in Gmail, the Merlin AI logo showed up below the email. Clicking it will nicely rewrite the email. I am unsure why these features have stopped working. Was it due to an update or a transition from the classic version to the latest version?

Please let me know how I can revert to the old side-by-side YouTube summary and key points.

Another AppSumo deal that went sour.

Merlin AI es simplemente increíble. Es mas que una extension de Chrome con 26 funciones integradas cambió completamente mi productividad: tengo acceso a GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini y Leonardo AI en un solo lugar sin pagar subscripciones separadas. Lo mejor es el resumen de YouTube que te permite ver videos de 30 minutos en 30 segundos, además puedes chatear con cualquier sitio web, generar imágenes profesionales y acceder a múltiples modelos de IA premium, todo funcionando al instante directamente en tu navegador. He ahorrado horas cada semana en investigación y creación de contenido, aumentando mi productividad exponencialmente. El precio en AppSumo es una ganga comparado con pagar subscripciones individuales. Si navegas, investigas o creas contenido, Merlin AI es absolutamente imprescindible y lo recomiendo sin dudarlo. Veredicto: 5 ESTRELLAS - SÚPER RECOMENDADO. La uso mucho

I had high hopes for Merlin AI, but it ended up being a disappointing experience overall.

While using the tool, a pop up would appear in the upper right corner of my screen asking for a donation. It was distracting and confusing, especially since the extension already aggressively pushes paid upgrades.

At one point, it also appeared that my lifetime license had been revoked. Features I previously had access to were suddenly unavailable. I reached out to customer support to ask what happened and never received a response. I later contacted support a second time to ask why the extension was asking for donations and, again, received no reply.

Beyond that, the tool itself feels outdated and underwhelming compared to how it’s marketed. Much of the output was low quality, generic, or appeared recycled to the point of feeling plagiarized. Performance was another issue, it was often slow and unresponsive, which made it frustrating to use for any real work.

Between the intrusive pop ups, constant pressure to upgrade, unclear licensing issues, poor output quality, slow performance, and completely unresponsive customer support, I eventually removed the extension from my PC and no longer use it.

Overall, Merlin AI seems far more promising on the surface than it is in practice. I can’t recommend it.

I purchased this product in July of 2024 and it helped me refine my linkedin profile while providing me the resources to use ai without the monthly fees. Access to the latest models for researching and writing are excellent. In the near future I will subscribe to the unlimited plan. I know how hard software development can be so I am glad to share with people that there are NO major bugs and the team from what I know is working to provide an improved product with each iterative product cycle.