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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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Snipcast
✓ verifiedFreemium

Emails AI-generated summaries of any podcast episode from a link, plus a chat feature to ask follow-up questions about the episode.

9.7K 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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AskYourPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI assistant to chat with, summarize and auto-fill PDFs, aimed at students and professionals extracting insights from documents.

226K visits/mo48K saves
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ChatDOC
✓ verifiedFree

AI assistant extracting and summarizing document info; real adoption.

90K visits/mo15K saves
Pricing
Free: $0 (30 one-time AI credits)
Basic: $5.99/mo billed yearly (1,000 credits/month)
Premium: $7.99/month (50 summaries/month, 10 subscriptions, 100 chat messages/month)
Patron: $11.99/month (150 summaries/month, 30 subscriptions, 300 chat messages/month)
Pro: $7.49/mo (50 summaries/day, videos under 60 min)
Premium: $15.7/mo (100 summaries/day, videos under 120 min)
Free: $0 (50 questions/day)
Premium: $11.99/mo (billed yearly)
Pro: $14.99/mo (billed yearly)

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Core features
  • 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
  • On-demand AI podcast episode summaries via link or upload
  • Chat interface for asking questions about an episode
  • Automatic summaries for new episodes of subscribed podcasts
  • Full transcript access on paid plans
  • Works with major podcast platforms and personal audio uploads
  • Email delivery of summaries
  • 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)
  • Chat across multiple documents
  • Instant document summaries
  • AI PDF form auto-filling
  • Document library organization
  • Chrome extension and mobile apps
  • ChatGPT and Zotero integrations
  • Chat with documents
  • Instant answers with cited sources
  • AI analysis of selected texts/tables
  • Query across multiple documents
  • Supports various file formats
Use cases
  • Summarize long content for study or work
  • Turn videos into structured notes
  • Brainstorm and organize ideas visually
  • Digest research and documents faster
  • Getting the key takeaways from a long podcast without listening in full
  • Reviewing notes from an episode already listened to
  • Deciding whether an episode is worth listening to before playing it
  • Building a searchable archive of podcast insights
  • 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
  • Summarizing long reports or papers
  • Extracting data from contracts
  • Auto-filling repetitive PDF forms
  • Studying and reviewing course material
  • Summarizing long documents
  • Explaining complex concepts
  • Finding key information in seconds
  • Turbocharging research
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