Glasp
Social web-highlighter with AI summaries
Overview
Glasp is a social highlighter — annotate web pages and YouTube videos, see others' highlights, share knowledge graphs. AI features include automatic summarization and AI-generated highlights. Free; Premium tier for unlimited AI.
Pricing
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Use cases
What you can produce with Glasp
- Highlight and annotate text on any web page or PDF from the browser extension, with everything saved to one searchable library.
- Export all your Kindle highlights from any book — beyond Amazon's export limits — as TXT, CSV or Markdown.
- Send your highlights and notes automatically into Notion, Obsidian and other note-taking apps.
- Generate an AI summary of a YouTube video from its transcript before deciding whether to watch it.
- Ask AI questions across everything you have highlighted to resurface ideas from past reading.
- See what other readers highlighted on the same article and follow people who read in your field.
- Publish a public profile of your highlights and notes as a shareable record of what you are learning.
ASEAN Perspective
Glasp in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Glasp is a social highlighting and knowledge-capture tool: you highlight articles, PDFs and YouTube transcripts in the browser, get AI summaries, and optionally share your highlights with a community, with export into note apps like Obsidian and Notion. It is free for core use and genuinely good for researchers, writers and learners who want to build a personal knowledge base from what they read. It suits a single-user reading-and-note workflow with a light social layer.
Caveats: it is a focused capture tool, not a full research or writing platform, the AI summaries are serviceable rather than exceptional, and the social/community angle adds little for solo users. There is no meaningful public API, and ASEAN relevance is incidental (English-first). Good value because it is free, but narrow in scope.
What people say
Glasp is alive and steadily developed, with a reported user base of around 500,000 and an unusually devoted core community built around its "learn in public" premise. The product has expanded well beyond a web highlighter: it now handles PDFs and YouTube transcripts, offers AI summaries and Q&A, ships mobile apps, and has quietly become one of the better free Kindle-highlight exporters — it works through Kindle Cloud Reader, bypasses Amazon's publisher-set export limits, and pushes highlights into Notion, Obsidian and other note apps at no cost.
What users consistently praise is the generosity of the free tier and the export pipeline. Students and researchers describe getting through degrees on it — highlight everything, find it again in one searchable place, send it downstream to a proper note system. The YouTube summarization draws frequent positive mentions for triaging long videos, and the social layer genuinely appeals to a subset of users who like seeing what others highlighted on the same article.
The criticisms are specific. The biggest structural one is that highlights are public by default, and keeping notes private requires the paid plan at around $12.50 a month — reviewers call this a dealbreaker for confidential or work-related reading, and it is a hard sell against Readwise at a similar price. Recent app-store reviews also report the AI question limits running out quickly and flaky behavior on iPad and Safari — intermittent sign-in and highlighting failures. The social feed matters little to users who just want a private capture tool.
Glasp fits students, researchers and content creators who read heavily on the open web, want a free capture-and-export layer in front of Notion or Obsidian, and are comfortable — or actively pleased — with their highlights being public. Anyone doing confidential reading should either budget for the paid tier or pick a private-by-default alternative.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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