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15Minutes
✓ verifiedPaid

Library of short book summaries, analyses, and audiobooks spanning thousands of nonfiction and fiction titles.

8.8K visits/mo533 saves
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Mapify
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that summarizes PDFs, videos, webpages and audio into editable mind maps and lets you chat with the source content.

812K visits/mo9.0K saves
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Briefy
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser and mobile AI summarizer that turns articles, videos and PDFs into structured notes saved to a knowledge base.

26K visits/mo
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Summarize.ing
✓ verifiedFreemium

YouTube summarizer turning video links into digests with highlights and mind maps, useful for students and researchers.

98K visits/mo5.9K saves
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Summarist
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Free book-summary library covering business, health and self-help titles, aimed at readers wanting quick takeaways instead of full books.

5.6K visits/mo38K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (30 one-time AI credits)
Basic: $5.99/mo billed yearly (1,000 credits/month)

No public pricing

Pro: $7.49/mo (50 summaries/day, videos under 60 min)
Premium: $15.7/mo (100 summaries/day, videos under 120 min)

No public pricing

Core features
  • Short book summaries and analysis
  • Summary PDFs and audiobooks
  • Personal library to save titles
  • Extensive category browsing
  • Coverage of thousands of books
  • Summarize PDFs, videos, URLs and audio into mind maps
  • Chat with your documents
  • Translation and summarization in 30+ languages
  • YouTube timestamps and transcription
  • One-click branch expansion
  • Export to image, PDF, Markdown or slides
  • One-click AI summaries of varied content
  • Multiple views: overview, table, mind map, timeline
  • Knowledge base to save and search briefs
  • Ask questions about saved content
  • Multilingual summaries and translation
  • Chrome and Safari/iOS extensions
  • Paste a YouTube link to get a summary in under a minute
  • Segmented, timestamp-aware breakdowns of long videos
  • Auto-generated mind maps of video content
  • Key concept and keyword extraction
  • Auto-generated Q&A pairs for review
  • Choice of underlying AI model (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4)
  • AI-generated summaries of nonfiction and popular books
  • Browsable category taxonomy (business, health, history, psychology, etc.)
  • Favorites list to bookmark summaries
  • Latest and newly-published book listings
  • Most-summarized/trending titles highlighted
Use cases
  • Learning a book's key ideas in minutes
  • Listening to book summaries on the go
  • Deciding which full books to read
  • Studying nonfiction concepts efficiently
  • Summarize long content for study or work
  • Turn videos into structured notes
  • Brainstorm and organize ideas visually
  • Digest research and documents faster
  • Summarizing articles and research papers
  • Digesting long videos and podcasts
  • Building a personal knowledge base
  • Skimming and replying to email threads
  • Reviewing lecture or tutorial videos without watching in full
  • Extracting key takeaways from long interviews or talks
  • Building study notes from educational YouTube content
  • Quickly deciding whether a video is worth watching
  • Getting the key ideas of a business or self-help book without reading it
  • Previewing a book before deciding whether to buy it
  • Quickly reviewing nonfiction concepts for study or work
  • Browsing new releases across multiple genres
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