Recall | Summarize Anything, Forget Nothing

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Your personal AI encyclopedia. Turn scattered information into a self-organizing knowledge base that gets smarter as you use it.

Latest reviews

• (2025-08-24) Tanzil Hossain Adib: Excellent extension offering highly effective concise and detailed summary options. Its value could be further elevated by adding features such as customizable summaries, quiz generation for specific grades/difficulty levels with user-defined prompts, and the ability to create step-by-step flowcharts/mind maps, tables/diagrams/illustrations for clearer understanding and visual learning, and key takeaways in the summary. Medical students can make high quality notes if there are features to include pictures from pdf to the summary ,and pictures in the quizzes/flashcards for reviewing. Adding multiple contents (multiple pdfs, or multiple pdfs and videos simultaneously) is a need while studying multiple resources of the same topic at a time to make high yield all in one comprehensive note or research. With these enhancements, it has the potential to become an indispensable tool for learning and productivity.
• (2025-08-13) Josh Myxiplyx: The privacy policy is rather insane. Of course, many are these days, but I definitely recommend reading it and running it (as well as their list of subprocessors) through your favorite LLM for insights into implications you might not think about. The biggest problem that I see is that they have subprocessors in other jurisdictions, meaning your data is subject to multiple legal systems with varying privacy protections. And here’s the kicker — at $80/year, you might think you’re the customer, but in reality your data could be worth just as much, if not more, to them over time. With multiple analytics, enrichment, and CRM vendors in the mix, even a conservative estimate of the potential market value of your behavioral profile, enriched identity, and usage patterns puts it on par with or exceeding the subscription fee over a few years. That means their incentive isn’t just to serve you well — it’s to collect, retain, and leverage as much about you as possible. If you’re using this on a personal home computer, you could be opening yourself up to far more data exposure than you bargained for. The extension does have a switch to turn it off, but don’t overestimate that as privacy protection. In most cases, such a toggle only stops active features; the extension still lives in your browser with its permissions intact, old cookies and identifiers remain, and any data already shared with third-party vendors continues to be trackable through their own channels. Real protection means disabling or removing it entirely when not in use, or blocking its network calls through other tools.
• (2025-07-29) Logan Johnson: I'm a SWE full time, using recall to learn cybersecurity as a hobby. The web browser tool helps me capture information/articles quickly, and then I can prompt the built-in AI for "Takeaways" I may have missed from each article (99% of the time its spot on). The spaced repetition has been nice, with the AI generated quiz questions hitting on topics that I haven't seen in a while. I don't normally subscribe to AI tools, but recall has been nothing short of amazing. Recommended it to my girlfriend who is in engineering, and she has been using it as well to accelerate her learning. Dearest thanks to the recall team, hoping to see this tool go far.
• (2025-06-29) Uday Saroj: Wonderful, pls add the option to save url to recall directly from right click popup on any webpage...
• (2025-06-28) Frantz Nelson: Since installing this extension a few weeks ago, my web experience has greatly improved. Having access to the summaries and linking content from my pages to existing data in my knowledge base has been really helpful.
• (2025-06-02) Wurps: Great utilization of AI in trying to make a framework of easily accessible knowledge that could potentially span even generations, but there are some things that raise concerns and preventing me from committing to and adopting this particular brand of the service despite my enthusiasm for the concept: 1. From the fair use policy: "Recall incurs costs based on usage. If an individual user's consumption significantly exceeds reasonable levels, we reserve the right to pause, review, or adjust their subscription." If you say unlimited and it is limited.. how am I supposed to trust you? Unlimited sounds nice, but unlimited does not mean limited. It's worded pleasantly but I don't want a guillotine hanging over my neck waiting for me to get too interested in a topic of research that I'm deemed a profit-risk and must be dealt with. 2. Seemingly no desktop client (that I could see) with any way to continue utilizing the style of service/past work building up the knowledge base if this company ever goes under (which isn't impossible for the timeframes expected for someone that wants to actually use this service to it's fullest extent). A risk of all time and effort invested into this going up in smoke is too threatening for me to want to commit. 3. "Accounts are intended for individual use only and cannot be shared across multiple people or resold." Restrictions for account access being shared specifically remove all of my potential use-cases for sharing accumulated information with family/children or friends, which would be a major selling point for me personally. I would want something along the lines of adding ways to share/browse/compare/merge other people's saved data. I would use this for saving baking recipes but as for serious long term data accumulation it feels too risky, the lack of a desktop client or ways to keep this system functional in case of you guys vanishing is concerning. I would also probably want a lifetime plan in that case or better yet a one-time purchase of a software that's effectively a framework allowing me to plug in whatever AI I wanted and reach the same result (which sounds perfectly reasonable), which is honestly probably a superior product in general due to the massively increased trust with such a system. Is the business model more about selling off small portions of ai data plans and profiting off of the difference in usage, or are you actually trying to create a revolutionary framework that improves the information gathering/storage/categorization power of people as a whole? I would be more than willing to purchase the product if it's the latter.
• (2025-05-09) Dmytro Snisarenko: This is the best summariser!
• (2025-04-18) Abdul: Its so sad how a paywall can ruin such an ingenious idea... what a shame truly
• (2025-04-05) stuart: DON'T BUY unable to continue using after usage limit even though I paid good money for the service. DON'T BUY
• (2025-04-02) Halyna Prykhodniuk: It saves me a lot of time with its concise summaries, and the chat feature makes it easy to extract useful information. Exactly what I needed, great work Recall!
• (2025-02-21) ophiucus: Great and reliable tool, however the bolt icon does nothing despite the onboarding system's constant pestering for you to do it.
• (2025-01-11) Bill Hogg: Just what I needed. I can get a very detailed summary for training videos and coding tutorials that summarizes the content in such a precise fashion that I can follow the instructions later without rewatching the video. Of course, you can jump directly to any video section that you do need to rewatch with just a click. I also like the auto-tagging, and auto-organizing of my saved content. I'm really enjoying Recall!
• (2025-01-05) Apekiller: The extension is great (for the limited time it works), however the free plan is advertised to have "Unlimited in-app knowledge cards" and say that "A knowledge card is a concise summary". After 10 uses to extract the concise (not detailed) summary from youtube videos it just asks for money and stops working. So there is nothing unlimited about this.
• (2025-01-02) Mario Martorelli: Exceptional tool to summarise webpages, videos, pdf, and lots of other stuff. From a great video summarizer it evolved into a full-featured knowledge base, with graph view of connections, clipper of full content of webpages, and much more. It actually made me save a lot of time by summarising things, and it also built an organized and easy to access knowledge base.
• (2024-12-28) Dick Van Gelder: This app became a part of my daily routine... It summarizes almost everything. A must for expanding your knowledge
• (2024-12-03) M R: Very cool. Has a lot of features, including quiz/review, and most importantly, is getting better all the time.
• (2024-11-13) Goody: Wow! Amazing Product and Team👏. They care a lot about their user experience. They actively respond to all support messages via discord/email. They're constantly improving and rolling out new features. The mobile app is still in beta, yet works so well😩. I use Recall to quickly get the main points from youtube videos or books and it hardly disappoints. Thank you💙.
• (2024-11-13) Boudewijn Bertsch: Select it, Install it, and Use it. Using is a one-touch operation. Simple, clean, and with automatic organization of your notes. You can edit summaries now. And there is a consistent process for improving the app by the developers. I highly recommend it!
• (2024-11-13) Wolfgang Männel: Recall does so many things I always wanted but never really got. I tried Evernote, Apple Notes, Notion, PDF collections and so much more, but now it's just Recall. I read so many articles and watch so many videos every day, it's been really hard for me to keep track of it all and actually retain the knowledge. Recall is great for distilling information. Can't recommend it highly enough.
• (2024-11-06) celine gregg: This app is amazing. After many endless searches I stumbled upon this app and added the extension to chrome. Go for it
• (2024-10-13) clips mind: so happy with this tool
• (2024-10-06) Danny: Best summary tool for desktop and mobile
• (2024-09-28) Ali Mehdi Mukadam: Recall has been a tool that I have absolutely loved using lately!
• (2024-09-24) Tau S.: Has been the best product I've found so far for summarizing long form youtube videos.
• (2024-09-16) James Langbein: Very good. It can even summarise paywalled articles such as New York Times. As the name suggests, it is aimed at people who want to recall what has been summarised by saving 'cards' and then reviewing them. I haven't saved more than 10 cards yet and it looks like there might be a paywall limit of 10 cards. You don't need to save cards though, can just view the summary and then close it, so it's still usable for summarising. I use Obsidian heavily and this appears very much like Obsidian... but connected to the web, so it makes the use of LLMs more seamless if you're a note-taker. This seems like an awesome tool, I personally don't want to pay for that though.
• (2024-08-31) Vamshi Krishna Reddy: Been waiting for something like this
• (2024-08-26) Paul Lalonde: This is my go-to summarizer now, after having used at least a dozen alternatives. Fast, accurate and painless. I've used it daily for over a month now and I love it. I'm guessing it's only going to get better.
• (2024-08-21) Rewind Cat: This has potential to revolutionize the way we learn. It's like using Perplexity, Obisidian and ChatGPT .. but it's so seamless 😊😊😊 10/10
• (2024-08-19) Omar Dahy: I have tried it on pdf but it didnt work
• (2024-08-06) Nam Trần: This is actually pretty good
• (2024-08-02) Robert E.: WARNING - this extension is most likely MALWARE. It attempted to self-install on my browser and from no-where!
• (2024-07-31) Varun Kumar: So good! Wish there were more than 10 summaries per month but strongly inclined to subscribe to their plan
• (2024-07-16) Pradnya Dasud: excellent app for students very helpful pls help with more such functions
• (2024-06-18) Adam Grim: I've tried multiple AI summarizes and this one is by far the best. No comparison. I use it everyday and it has saved so many hours.
• (2024-06-12) Lorenzo Vuerich: Best extension to summarize anything! Must have
• (2024-05-27) Nicholas Ventura: Very effective and accurate as a widget. The indexing on the actual web page is difficult even after a few tests. In addition to my work reading which it worked well for, I wanted to see if this would work with an Instagram post where they were making a recipe. Recall was unable to take notes. Lastly, creating links in the onboarding stops after step 1. Very nice app nonetheless! I will continue the testing and revise my comment if needed.
• (2024-05-25) Marcus Neufeldt: Very nice app. Would be cool to give users more settings. I would like to choose between different LLMs and also adjust the degree of how things get summed up. I hope you dont stop here and keep developing. Cheers.
• (2024-05-07) Ronald Crandall: Fails frequently. Just grabs transcript or summary.
• (2024-04-15) Isaac Haddy: Good when it works, but randomly on tons of youtube videos it fails and just grabs the description as the "summary" and does no summarization at all... started happening right after i upgraded to premium too :/
• (2024-04-07) João Carlos: Great! Detailed and complete summary! It's so worth it!
• (2024-04-07) Minh Hùng Lê: Can you expland why the summarization in the web version vs the add-on is different with the same document?
• (2024-03-21) Dmytro Snisarenko: The best summary creator and knowledge manager I know!
• (2024-03-09) Philip Grebowiec: Best and most accurate summarizer I have found thus far. Using it mainly for medical journal articles, and nothing else has come close.
• (2024-03-05) Thanh Minhton: You should change your extension such that it integrates more easily with the browser. I can't right-click read-aloud it at all. And if I try to open it up separately in its own browser app, I am denied the basic functions of the browser. Why do you have this pretentious useless editor that has "change text" and "italics, bold" etc.. Like why even is it a text editor? You are helping nobody with that nonsense. Just give me plain text as it should be.
• (2024-02-10) Artem Sovkov: Didn't work. Said can't find captions
• (2024-02-04) Farshid Pirpakajaki: This is basically a paid only service, despite what it says on the front page free version is limited to 5 Cards! Also the only way to enhance a Card is Wikipedia. Pass.
• (2024-01-12) Stefan Dacevic: This extension completely transformed my online experience! I ve been using it for a few weeks now, and Im absolutely loving it. So easy to use and has made my online work much more efficient. Highly recommended for anyone lookg to streamline their online experience.
• (2023-11-10) ujjawal tyagi: Tried this on PDf didn't work at all ! What's more disappointing is that the extension doesn't even bother to tell whether it is going to summarize or not. Atleast if its not doing should give a notification !
• (2023-11-01) Rishi: This AI video summarizer is an absolute game-changer, and I couldn't be happier with its performance. From the get-go, it's clear that this summarizer has been designed with user-friendliness in mind. Its interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, making it a breeze to upload and summarize videos. The speed at which it processes video content and generates summaries is quite impressive – even for longer videos, the results are delivered promptly. What truly sets this AI video summarizer apart is the quality of the summaries it produces. It captures the essential elements of a video with remarkable accuracy, ensuring that the viewer gains a comprehensive understanding of the content without having to watch the entire video. The generated summaries are concise, well-structured, and highlight key points effectively. Now, here's the intriguing part – I'd love to explore the inner workings of this incredible tool a bit more! Do you have a GitHub repository or any open-source contributions related to this project? I'm quite curious about the underlying technology, and I'd be eager to delve into the code and maybe even contribute if possible. In summary, I can confidently say that this AI video summarizer is a must-have tool for anyone dealing with video content. It simplifies the process of content creation, curation, and optimization, making it an invaluable asset for content creators, marketers, and educators. If you happen to have a GitHub repository or any way to explore the technical aspects of this project, I'd be delighted to know more.
• (2023-11-01) Rishi: This AI video summarizer is an absolute game-changer, and I couldn't be happier with its performance. From the get-go, it's clear that this summarizer has been designed with user-friendliness in mind. Its interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, making it a breeze to upload and summarize videos. The speed at which it processes video content and generates summaries is quite impressive – even for longer videos, the results are delivered promptly. What truly sets this AI video summarizer apart is the quality of the summaries it produces. It captures the essential elements of a video with remarkable accuracy, ensuring that the viewer gains a comprehensive understanding of the content without having to watch the entire video. The generated summaries are concise, well-structured, and highlight key points effectively. Now, here's the intriguing part – I'd love to explore the inner workings of this incredible tool a bit more! Do you have a GitHub repository or any open-source contributions related to this project? I'm quite curious about the underlying technology, and I'd be eager to delve into the code and maybe even contribute if possible. In summary, I can confidently say that this AI video summarizer is a must-have tool for anyone dealing with video content. It simplifies the process of content creation, curation, and optimization, making it an invaluable asset for content creators, marketers, and educators. If you happen to have a GitHub repository or any way to explore the technical aspects of this project, I'd be delighted to know more.