Recast vs TLDR This

Recast uses Claude AI to turn PDFs, article URLs, text, or topics into platform-ready content. It offers nine formats, including social posts, video scripts, newsletters, blog outlines, takeaways, and hooks. Study Mode creates study guides, slide decks, flashcards, quizzes, and citations from course material. Tone and reading-level controls are available; the Free Beta also includes Brand Voice and translation into 10 languages. Free Beta costs nothing, allows 10 generations per day across nine formats and five input types, and requires your own Anthropic API key. Anthropic charges usage directly, typically 0.05–$0.30 depending on length. Recast says keys, history, and browser-stored data remain on your device, while inputs go directly from the browser to Anthropic. URL pages are fetched through allorigins.win. Flashcards export to Anki and Quizlet. Planned Pro costs $15 a month and lists unlimited generations, no API key, bulk upload up to 10 files, priority generation, and founder support.

TLDR This summarizes articles and other text, with inputs ranging from a webpage address or pasted text to PDF, DOC and DOCX files up to 25 MB. Its AI generates concise summaries, while article extraction can identify the author, date, title, related images and estimated reading time. Browser extensions summarize webpages in one click, and a PDF chat feature lets students, researchers and professionals ask questions about research documents. Other tools paraphrase text in different voices and styles, filter weak arguments and speculation, and surface relevant points. A reading view removes ads, popups, graphics and other online distractions. The service also provides API access through a link to RapidAPI. TLDR This has a free plan and paid plans, including Starter at $4 a month. The Free plan includes unlimited basic summaries, 10 advanced AI summaries and up to 10 paraphrases as one-time allowances. The service says uploaded files are not opened unless requested and personal information is not sold to third parties. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest; deleted data is purged within 30 days.