Genei vs SciSummary
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Genei
UK PDF and web-page summariser, still online but no longer maintained
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SciSummary
Cheap, cited summaries of research papers, with figure chat and podcas...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.4 / 10 | 5.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Paid |
| Free tier | Not offered — a 14-day free trial on each plan | 7-day trial: 30,000 words of summaries, 5 figures, 100 chat messages; non-AI library features free without a card |
| Paid from | £9.99/month (Basic) or £7.99/month billed annually, academic Basic from £3.99 | $7/month (Pro, billed monthly), or $48/year |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | Genei was a promising early AI reader: Oxford-prize-winning, a Y Combinator Summer 2021 company, and genuinely useful to students who needed key points pulled out of dense papers. The core features, summaries, keywords,... |
SciSummary does one job cheaply: turning a paper into a structured summary you can check, since each statement links back to the passage it came from. Figure chat, multi-paper summaries, slides and a podcast mode make it... |
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