What's New in Klarrity v2.2 — Study Klips, Klarrify, and a Cleaner Flow

Klarrity v2.2 is the biggest release since the original launch. The headline change is two new features — Study Klips and Klarrify — that together reposition Klarrity from "AI flashcard tool" to "the smallest deck that still teaches you the thing."

This post covers what changed, why, and how to use each new feature. If you're an existing Klarrity user, your subscription is grandfathered at your original rate (more on that at the bottom).

The two new tentpole features

🎬 Study Klips — cards from a YouTube clip

Problem we set out to solve: You're studying with YouTube. There's a 30-second window where the explanation finally clicked. You want flashcards from just that moment, not the whole 40-minute video.

Until now, "make flashcards from a YouTube video" tools — including ours — processed the whole transcript. You got back 30 cards on the entire video, most of which were noise.

What Study Klips does: Open any YouTube video. Open Klarrity. The popup auto-detects the video and shows a Currently watching tile. Tap it, pick Last 30s · Last 60s · Last 2m (or set a custom range), and Klarrity slices just that part of the transcript and turns it into flashcards.

Every card preserves a timestamp link back to the exact moment in the video — so when you fail a card in Anki two months from now and want to re-watch the source, it's one click.

We covered the full breakdown in how to make flashcards from a YouTube video (4 methods compared). Short version: nobody else in the AI flashcard space lets you target just the clip.

🎯 Klarrify — quiz first, then memorize only what you missed

Problem we set out to solve: Most AI flashcard tools generate cards on every concept in your source. But you already know most of those concepts. You spend the next two weeks reviewing cards on stuff you didn't need cards for.

What Klarrify does: Click Klarrify instead of Generate. Klarrity runs a 5-question multiple-choice diagnostic on your captured source. You answer. Each question has an I guessed toggle so lucky guesses count as gaps, not knowledge.

Then Klarrity uses your performance to generate cards only on the concepts you missed. Three outcomes:

• You miss some → Klarrity builds 6-15 targeted cards on the gaps. (The "gap" path)
• You ace it → Klarrity generates 3-5 stretch cards on adjacent concepts in the source. (The "ace" path — never a dead end)
• You bomb it → Klarrity generates a full card set, because the source is genuinely new to you. (The "bomb" path)

The diagnostic-first methodology is grounded in research on the testing effect and desirable difficulty — we wrote a longer post on the cognitive psychology behind it if you're curious why this works.

In practice the time math is significant: a typical chapter that would have produced 50 cards now produces ~12, all on what you actually need to memorize. That's about 2 hours saved per chapter in spaced-repetition review time.

Other v2.2 changes

Redesigned popup with single-question screens

The old popup was dense. Selection-pill toggle, capture image button, YouTube card with three nested sub-cards, keyboard-shortcut hint, reset onboarding link — all on one screen. Hard to know where to look.

v2.2 collapses each state to one question, one obvious action. The empty state asks "Make cards from…" and shows you tile-style options (YouTube clip if you're on YouTube, paste a URL, image capture). Settings move into a dedicated sheet behind a gear icon. Generate state focuses on the two primary actions (Generate and Klarrify) with advanced controls collapsed under a disclosure.

Apple-level clarity was the goal. We're not all the way there yet, but it's significantly better than v2.1.

Direct send to Notion via the official API

Klarrity v2.1 exported Notion as a CSV you'd then import. Tedious.

v2.2 supports direct send to Notion via the official Notion API. Connect your workspace once with an integration token, pick a database, and from then on cards send straight to Notion as database rows with Question / Answer / Source / URL columns. No copy-paste, no CSV import.

Combined with the existing AnkiConnect direct send, the export flow is now: tap the destination, cards arrive, no file dance.

What's new modal on first open after upgrade

When you reload the extension after the v2.2 update, you'll see a 3-slide intro modal explaining Study Klips, Klarrify, and the redesigned export flow. Dismissible. Never reappears unless you tap Reset onboarding in Settings.

If you want to replay it: open the popup → gear icon → Reset onboarding → close + reopen the popup.

Selection pill is now opt-in and dismissible

The floating Klarrify button that appears when you highlight text on a page used to be on by default and could only be disabled via the toolbar icon click. In v2.2 it's:

• Off by default for new installs (existing users keep their preference)
• Toggleable from the popup Settings sheet
• Per-page mute — click the × on the pill, choose "Hide on this page"
• Per-site mute — same × menu, "Hide on this site"
• Global kill — × menu → "Turn off everywhere"

The toolbar icon now opens the popup like a normal extension. No more confusing on/off toggle.

Refreshed brand: new logo, new typography

The Klarrity logo got a refresh. The toolbar icon, favicon, marketing site, and OG share image all use the new geometric K — orange-gradient tile, sharp white K letterform. It reads cleaner at 16px and looks more intentional everywhere.

The marketing site type system also got an upgrade: Newsreader for display headings (replacing Fraunces — same editorial energy without the AI-startup template feel) and Sora for body. The cream paper background and warm-orange accent are unchanged.

YouTube transcript reliability

Klarrity v2.1's YouTube transcript path was breaking on most videos due to YouTube anti-scraping. v2.2 fixed this by switching to a managed transcript service (Supadata) that handles the IP rotation and YouTube changes for us. The result: YouTube cards work reliably again.

If a video genuinely has no captions (only burnt-in subtitles in the video itself), Klarrity will say so explicitly with a recovery suggestion — no more silent failure.

New pricing — and why existing users don't pay more

Klarrity Pro is now $7/month or $59/year (2 months free) for new subscriptions starting in May 2026.

If you subscribed before May 2026, you keep your original $5/month rate forever. This isn't a "we'll grandfather you for a year" trick — your subscription stays at $5/mo as long as it's active. We rebuilt the Stripe pricing infrastructure specifically to make this work without ever touching existing subscriptions.

Why we changed pricing: the product genuinely does more in v2.2 than it did in v2.1. We're a small team and we have to fund AI generation costs (OpenAI, Supadata) per user. $7 is the price that makes the math work for new signups; we couldn't justify it for the people who paid in early. Hence the grandfathering.

If you want the FAQ version: "I'm already paying $5/mo — does this affect me?" Nope.

What's coming next

The roadmap we're committing to publicly:

• Audio transcription fallback for YouTube videos that have no captions at all (Whisper-based, Pro feature). This unlocks the small slice of educational YouTube that doesn't expose machine-readable captions.
• Image occlusion as a card type. We'd been resisting this because it's a Pro-Anki feature and most learners don't use it, but enough med-student feedback has come in to put it on the list.
• Klarrify diagnostic — adaptive question count. Currently fixed at 5 questions. Could scale based on source length (3 for short, 7-8 for long).
• Saved Study Klips collection. A way to capture multiple clips while watching a video and process them in a batch at the end.

We are not building a mobile app, multi-language support beyond English, or our own spaced-repetition replacement for Anki. Klarrity stays focused on the source-capture-and-card-generation step; the SRS layer is owned by Anki, Quizlet, Notion, etc.

Quick links

• Add Klarrity to Chrome — install or update
• Quiz First, Then Memorize: Why Diagnostic-First Flashcards Work Better — the methodology behind Klarrify
• How to Make Flashcards From a YouTube Video (4 Methods Compared) — Study Klips in context
• Klarrity vs AnkiDecks vs Knowt — honest competitor comparison
• Pricing — current plans + grandfathering details

If you have questions or feedback, hit us at hello@klarrity.app — we read every email.