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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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Zeli
✓ verifiedFree
Lightweight digest reader that curates and summarizes trending Hacker News posts and Hugging Face papers to speed up daily reading.
36K visits/mo
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)
No public pricing
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)
- ✦AI summaries of top Hacker News posts
- ✦Hugging Face daily paper digests
- ✦Trending/hottest post filtering including Ask HN and Show HN
- ✦Quick-scan article preview format
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
- →Developers keeping up with Hacker News without reading everything
- →AI researchers scanning new papers quickly
- →Tech enthusiasts wanting a daily curated digest
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