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Recall
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI knowledge base that saves, summarizes and connects articles, videos, podcasts and PDFs into a graph you can chat with.
152K visits/mo1.5K saves
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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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Arena
✓ verifiedFreemium
Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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elium.com
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise AI knowledge-management platform for building a governed, searchable company knowledge hub teams actually use.
26K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (10 AI summaries/mo)
Plus: $10/mo billed yearly (unlimited summaries)
Max: $38/mo billed yearly (bulk actions, model choice)
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
Free trial available
Team: 15€/user/mo billed yearly
Corporate: 20€/user/mo billed yearly
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦One-click saving of articles, videos, podcasts, PDFs
- ✦AI summaries of saved content
- ✦Automatic tagging and knowledge-graph linking
- ✦Chat with your knowledge using GPT, Claude or Gemini
- ✦Spaced-repetition quizzes
- ✦Browser extension, web and mobile apps; API/MCP access
- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦AI-powered search and answers
- ✦Content approval and expiration workflows
- ✦Multi-language sharing with AI translation
- ✦Templates and rich content creation
- ✦Microsoft, Slack, Google Drive integrations
- ✦ISO 27001 security, EU hosting, GDPR
Use cases
- →Building a personal 'second brain'
- →Summarizing long content to save time
- →Chatting with your own saved knowledge
- →Retaining what you read via spaced repetition
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Central company knowledge base
- →Customer support and IT service desk
- →Onboarding and knowledge retention
- →Market watch and user insights
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