genei vs Paperlayer

genei is an AI-powered research and note-taking tool for analysing webpages, documents, and PDF files. It can extract and define keywords, search within and across documents, and produce summaries of documents or sections. Its natural language processing supports abstractive summarisation, entity annotation, semantic search, and question answering. The web app organizes documents into projects and supports comments, highlights, custom definitions, and notes. It also provides citation management and reference generation for uploaded documents. The Chrome extension can summarise webpages or save them for later reading. genei supports PDF and web.x files, but currently handles English-language documents only and is designed for desktop rather than mobile devices. The free Extension plan offers one-click webpage summaries. A 14-day trial is listed, and the pricing note lists paid access from £3.99/user/mo on annual billing. Separately listed monthly plans are Genei Basic at $5.49 a month and Genei Pro at $20.99 a month; Pro adds multi-document summarisation, search, and question answering, along with other features. The terms describe personal and non-commercial use, with enterprise subscriber access for authorised institutional users.

Paperlayer is a web-based AI reading layer for research papers, pairing summaries and contextual margin notes with evidence in the original PDF. You can find public arXiv papers by title or author, enter an arXiv ID or paste an arXiv link. Summaries cover the paper’s problem, method, results and caveats, while highlights mark claims, methods, results, problems and caveats with adjustable density. Margin notes explain terms, equations and figures beside the text. Summaries and notes support Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French and German, and J and K keys navigate through a paper. Paper chat is marked “Soon.” The public demo covers public arXiv papers only and accepts no private or unpublished uploads. Paperlayer says live processing sends paper and request content to OpenAI over encryption without intentionally including account, cookie or anonymous identifiers.