Tech riderRev. 29 Sept 2026
Sidenote
- 1Runs onBrowser, Web
- 2CostsFree plan · free trial · paid from £1.20/mo
- 3Document uploadYes
- 4Webpage summariesYes
- 5Transcript summariesYes
- 6Summary length controlshort
- 7Export formatsmarkdown
7 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: getsidenote.app
Overview
Sidenote is ranked #4 of 35 in AI summarizers on Specifiction. It runs on Browser extension, Web. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at £1.20/mo.
Sidenote plans and pricing
All plansFree Free forever 3 documents/month · 5 MB/document · 10 summaries/month · 10 explanations/month · 3 glossary builds/month · 10 chat turns/month · no collections or Confluence space indexing getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
Pro £10/mo monthly 25 documents/month · 20 MB/document · 75 summaries/month · 70 explanations/month · 15 glossary builds/month · 35 chat turns/month · collections up to 5 documents getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
Team (annual billing) £14.40/yr billed annually Pro-level caps per member · shared team collections · SAML SSO with domain auto-join · team owners/admins get Confluence indexing at 500 pages/month getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
Team £18/mo monthly Pro-level caps per member · shared team collections · SAML SSO with domain auto-join · team owners/admins get Confluence indexing at 500 pages/month getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
Pro+ £20/mo monthly 50 documents/month · 40 MB/document · 150 summaries/month · 140 explanations/month · 30 glossary builds/month · 50 chat turns/month · collections up to 10 documents · Confluence indexing 200 pages/month getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
Pro Max £100/mo monthly 250 documents/month · 75 MB/document · 750 summaries/month · 700 explanations/month · 150 glossary builds/month · 250 chat turns/month · collections up to 25 documents · Confluence indexing 500 pages/month getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
Compared on AI summarizers
- Free plan
- Yesgetsidenote.app
- Document upload
- Yesgetsidenote.app
- Webpage summaries
- Yesgetsidenote.app
- Transcript summaries
- Yesgetsidenote.app
- Summary length control
- shortgetsidenote.app
- Export formats
- markdowngetsidenote.app
Facts
- What it does
- Sidenote is an AI reading assistant that answers questions about documents in the browser and shows where each answer came from.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Cited answers
- Answers cite source passages, and clicking a citation scrolls to and highlights the passage in the page.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Document tools
- Features include summaries, explanations, glossaries, multi-document collections, document search, notes, highlights, tags, and starred documents.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- File support
- Sidenote reads browser-rendered PDFs, including scanned PDFs with OCR, and accepts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, MD, MDX, and RTF uploads.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Dedicated integrations include Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, Slack canvases, SharePoint, and OneDrive.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Browser availability
- The site lists Chrome, Edge, and Firefox extensions, with Opera described as coming soon.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Trial
- The 7-day Pro trial requires no card and has limits including 10 documents, 20 summaries, and 10 chat turns.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says user content is never used to train AI models and its AI providers use no-training defaults on the API tiers used.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Data residency
- Documents are stored in Supabase in the UK eu-west-2 London region, encrypted at rest and isolated per account with row-level security.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Retention
- Users can choose Store retention while the account is open or Discard, which purges a document within 24 hours; users can also delete library documents at any time.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Compliance limit
- Sidenote says it is not yet SOC 2 certified and that formal attestation is on its roadmap.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Who it is for
- The maker describes use cases for engineering, product, customer success, legal and operations, and research teams.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
- Support
- The maker lists support by email at [email protected] and says it is supported by its solo developer, Lewis Hadden.getsidenote.app · 29 Sept 2026
Company
- Headquarters
- Whittlesey, United Kingdomgetsidenote.app · 23 Sept 2026
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Where it ranks on Specifiction
- Best AI Summarizers in 2026#4 of 35
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Sources
- getsidenote.app/about· checked 29 Sept 2026
- getsidenote.app/features· checked 29 Sept 2026
- getsidenote.app· checked 29 Sept 2026
- getsidenote.app/pricing· checked 29 Sept 2026
- getsidenote.app/security-compliance· checked 29 Sept 2026