Summarize with AI
An AI summarizer for articles, videos, PDFs, and podcasts.
Too much to read and watch? Recall generates a summary in one click and organizes it for you, so you can come back to it and chat with everything you saved.
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How to summarize anything with AI in Recall
To summarize with AI in Recall, add an article, page, PDF, image, or video by pasting a link, uploading a file, sharing from your phone, or clicking the AI extension. Recall saves it, generates a summary you can save to the notebook, and keeps the original so you can chat with it later.
Add an article, video, or PDF
Paste a link, upload a PDF or image, share from your phone, or click the AI extension on the page you are on.
Get the summary
Choose a summary type and save it to your notebook. Recall keeps the original article, page, file, or transcript.
Chat, listen, or review
Ask questions about the source or across your whole knowledge base, listen to the summary, or turn the source into quiz questions.
See the AI summarizer in Recall
Save something long, and Recall generates an AI summary so you know if it is worth your time.
3 ways to get an AI summary
From your phone, from a link or a file, or from the browser.
Share it from your phone
On iPhone or Android, open the article, the page, or the video and tap Share, then Recall. If Recall is missing the first time, tap More and turn it on. Whatever you share lands in your knowledge base.
Paste a link or upload a file
Open the web app, where Add Content is already open. Paste a public link, or upload a PDF or an EPUB.
Save the page you are on
On a computer, open the page in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari and use the Recall AI extension. One click saves the page.
What Recall summarizes
An article, a PDF, a book, text and Markdown, a YouTube video, or a podcast.
Articles, news, and blogs
A news story, a blog post, and a long article get a summary, and the full text stays.
PDFs
Upload a PDF, and Recall summarizes it. A long scanned PDF has its own page limit.
Text and Markdown
Upload a text or Markdown file, and Recall summarizes it. It becomes a note you can edit.
What Recall does with a summary
The summary is the short version. Recall keeps the original next to the summary, so you can find both again.
Recall saves the original
Recall saves the article, page, file, video, or episode in your second brain, with everything else you keep.
Recall generates the summary
Recall generates the short version. Recall keeps the original, so the summary is not all you keep.
You can come back to the source
Search a line from the piece later. An article, a PDF, a YouTube video, and a podcast are saved the same way.
Recall organizes the summary
Recall organizes the summary for you, so it lives with everything else in your second brain.
Chat with the summary and the source
Ask what the argument is, or ask across several things you saved. The answer comes from what you saved.
Recall connects related content
Recall links each save to the other articles, videos, and notes you saved on the same idea.
Keep the source
An AI summary you can find again
A one-off AI summarizer gives you a short version and stops. Recall keeps the original with the summary, organizes it, and lets you chat with it later.
| Feature | Recall | One-off AI summarizer |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | ||
What you leave with | The original and the summary | A short version of one thing |
The original | It stays | Gone after you copy the summary |
| Memory | ||
Finding it later | Search it with the rest of your saves | Only if you kept the text yourself |
| Chat | ||
Asking about it | Ask across this source and the rest of your knowledge base | No knowledge base to ask |
| Organization | ||
Where it lives | Organized with everything else you saved | Nowhere after you copy the summary |
| Limits | ||
What it covers | Articles, pages, PDFs, and videos. PDFs up to 250 MB and 2,000 pages | Varies by tool |
| Value | ||
Price to start | Free to start, with unlimited saves and 10 AI summaries a month | Varies, and many cap or charge per use |
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Why people make Recall part of their day
“Think of it as a library of everything you've read and watched, with an AI sitting on top that has read it too. Recall makes that easier than anything else we tried.”
“Recall works the way your brain works! Perfect for deep research or growing your knowledge on any topic.”
“I love [Recall’s] interface, its speed, and its overall user experience… it is scratching my web-hoarding itch unlike anything else has quite been able to do to date.”
“One of my favorite AI apps is Recall. I've used it constantly for almost a year to manage and transcribe all the videos we create and work with. It's the kind of AI app that's just become part of my daily workflow, the highest compliment you can pay a piece of software.”
“After just a few months, Recall has become one of my most-used apps on both desktop and mobile. Frankly, I'd rather give up Microsoft Word than Recall.”
“I've tried practically every AI tool out there, and Recall is among the very few that I've actually found myself using. It has completely changed the way I study.”
“I didn't expect much from Recall. But it completely blew me away. It does everything NotebookLM does and also fills in all its shortcomings.”
“I run two parallel careers, which means staying current across rapidly evolving topics. Recall is the front door to my entire knowledge workflow.”
Fernand
Head of Technology
“Recall has revolutionized how I manage information! As a power user, its AI-driven summarization and storage capabilities have boosted my productivity tenfold, allowing me to effortlessly access and recall key details whenever I need them.”
William Peltier
Senior Director at Moody's
“I use Recall on a daily basis to cultivate and build a hand-picked database of information. The end result is like having a personalized AI loaded with sources pre-screened for quality.”
Roses
Human Rights Worker
“I use Recall every day. It helps me quickly condense important information from thought leadership articles and educational YouTube videos. It's great to have a place where I can easily store this information knowing that I will come back to it again in the future. I've greatly developed as a founder and leader thanks to Recall.”
Jason Patel
Co-founder at Open Forge AI
“I've been building several second brains for years and whenever I see a new way to do it, I don't like changing because my other systems already work. But I'm always willing to try because you never know which one would be a drastic improvement on what you're already using. Recall is one of them.”
Dave Katague
AI Educator
“Recall has become an essential part of how I learn, think, and explore the world.”
Maire
Student, Data Analyst
