Best tools for managing AI conversations (2026)

What matters in an AI conversation management tool

• Automatic vs. manual capture: does it save automatically, or do you have to trigger exports?
• Cross-platform support: does it cover all the AI tools you use, or just one?
• Searchability: can you find a specific conversation from three weeks ago by topic?
• Context portability: can you take a saved conversation and resume work in a new chat?

#1 thredly, best overall

• thredly is a Chrome extension that adds a one-click Summarize button inside ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, with Gemini and Perplexity supported by paste-and-click on the web app. One click on a long thread gives you a structured summary, goal, decisions, outputs, next steps, stored privately to your account. Summaries are time-limited and the thredly team cannot read their contents.
• Other tools either give you raw exports you still have to read, are locked to one platform, or require you to write the summary prompt yourself. thredly handles the summary in one click and covers the five platforms that matter.

Other tools in the category

• ChatGPT Exporter: manual export per conversation, ChatGPT-only, no summaries, no search.
• SaveMyPhind: manual export, three-platform coverage, Markdown output, no summaries.
• Glasp: primarily a web highlights tool, not built for AI conversation management.
• Monica: an AI sidebar for browsing, not a session history management tool.

Related guides

• Best Chrome extensions for AI chat history
• Best Chrome extensions for AI chat summarisation
• How to never lose an important AI conversation

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