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Gist AI
✓ verifiedFree
Free Chrome extension, powered by ChatGPT, that summarizes web pages, YouTube videos and PDFs in one click.
4.2K visits/mo
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NoteAI
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI summarizer that turns YouTube, video, audio, PDFs and webpages into notes, transcripts, translations and mind maps.
1.3M visits/mo
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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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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
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (10 AI summaries/mo)
Plus: $10/mo billed yearly (unlimited summaries)
Max: $38/mo billed yearly (bulk actions, model choice)
Core features
- ✦AI-Generated Notes
- ✦Summarize YouTube videos with AI
- ✦Podcast to notes AI
- ✦Meeting notes AI generator
- ✦Summarize PDFs with AI
- ✦Quizzes & Flashcards Generation
- ✦Mind Maps Generation
- ✦AI Chat with Notes
- ✦Custom Note Styles
- ✦One-click summaries for web pages, YouTube and PDFs
- ✦Powered by ChatGPT
- ✦'Read More' deep-dive into sources
- ✦Jump to relevant YouTube segments
- ✦Summarize local and online PDFs
- ✦No length restriction
- ✦YouTube summarization and transcripts
- ✦Video and audio summarization
- ✦PDF and webpage summarization
- ✦Mind map generation
- ✦Translation and knowledge extraction
- ✦Export to MP3, MP4 or structured notes
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Summarizing YouTube videos for quick insights
- →Converting lectures and meetings into structured notes
- →Creating flashcards and quizzes from study materials
- →Generating mind maps for complex topics
- →Summarizing research papers efficiently
- →Quickly grasping long articles
- →Skimming YouTube videos for key points
- →Summarizing PDFs for study or work
- →Summarizing YouTube lectures for study
- →Extracting notes from PDFs and articles
- →Turning long content into mind maps
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Building a personal 'second brain'
- →Summarizing long content to save time
- →Chatting with your own saved knowledge
- →Retaining what you read via spaced repetition
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