Summarize an article
An article summarizer that organizes the article and lets you chat with it.
An article you meant to finish is still sitting in a tab. Recall saves the article, generates a summary, and keeps the full text, organized for you, so you can chat with every article you saved.
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How to summarize an article with AI in Recall
To summarize an article with AI in Recall, share the link from your phone, paste it into Add Content, or click the AI extension on the page. Recall saves the article, generates a summary, and keeps the full text so you can search it and chat with it later.
Save the article
Share a link from your phone, paste it into Add Content, or click the AI extension on the page you are reading.
Get the summary
Recall generates a short version of the article. Recall keeps the full text, so the summary is not all you keep.
Chat with the article
Ask what the argument is, or ask across several articles you saved. The answer comes from what you saved.
See how to save, organize, and chat with an article in Recall
Save an article, and Recall summarizes it and keeps the full text so you can chat with it.
3 ways to summarize an article
From your phone, from a link in Recall, or from the browser.
Share an article
On iPhone or Android, open the article and tap Share, then Recall. If Recall is missing the first time, tap More and turn it on. The article lands in your knowledge base.
Paste an article link
Open the web app, where Add Content is already open. Paste a public article, a blog post, or a news story.
Save an article from the browser
On a computer, open the article in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari and use the Recall AI extension. One click saves the page you are on.
What Recall saves from an article
The article and its summary. Recall saves each one.
The full article
Recall keeps the text of the page, not only the summary. You can read it again without hunting for the tab.
A news story or a blog
A news article and a blog post are articles. Apple News needs the publisher's own page, not only the Apple News link.
One article, not the site
Recall saves the article you opened. It does not save every post on that site. Save each one you want on its own.
What Recall does with a saved article
Saving the article is the first step. Recall then summarizes it and organizes it.
Recall saves the article
Recall saves the article in your second brain, with everything else you keep.
Recall summarizes the article
Recall generates a short version of the article and keeps the full text, so the summary is not all you keep.
The article stays readable
You can search a line from the piece later. A news story, a blog post, and a long read are saved the same way.
Recall organizes the article
Recall organizes the article for you, so it lives with everything else in your second brain.
Chat with the article
Ask what the article argues, or ask across several articles you saved. The answer comes from what you saved.
Recall connects the article
Recall links the article to related saves on the same idea.
Keep the source
An article summary you can find again
A one-off article summarizer gives you a short version and stops. Recall keeps the article, organizes it, and lets you chat with it later.
| Feature | Recall | One-off article summarizer |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | ||
What you leave with | The article and the summary | A short version of one article |
The original | Recall keeps the full text | 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 article 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 | One article at a time. Apple News needs the publisher's own page | 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
