genei vs smry

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.

smry is an AI reading agent that reads and summarizes material, files it, and answers questions with the exact passage. Its workspace includes a clean reader, source-grounded summaries and answers, highlights, notes, audio, and a searchable library. Users can follow RSS and Atom feeds, podcasts, YouTube channels, Reddit communities, X accounts, creator transcripts, and selected webpage monitors. Supported material includes videos, PDFs, EPUBs, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, text, Markdown, and subtitle files. Connections include Readwise Reader, Matter, Notion, Pocket, and Safari Reading List; highlights can be exported in formats including Markdown and JSON. Signed-in accounts, including Free, receive a personal Developer API and Streamable HTTP MCP server, with higher limits on Patron and Pro. Free is free and includes 100 feeds and three webpage monitors. Patron costs $6 a month and Pro costs $80 a month. A 7-day trial is listed. The platform is available as an extension, on iOS, and on the web; the dedicated desktop app is coming soon, while native iOS and Android apps are not currently shipped.