AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Skim Recap
Recaps what you skipped and explains where you get stuck
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Active Recall▲1,078Chat with everything you’ve read, heard, watched, or noted
2024 · recall.it · its alternatives →
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Summarize, connect and organize ALL your online content
2023 · recall.it · its alternatives →
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Scroll▲93I kept losing ideas in long chats, so I built a tiny Chrome extension to make navigating between turns/prompts way easier. Idk why this isn't a native feature on all LLMs. Anyway, free and open source on GitHub or the Chrome Store. Hope it's helpful! Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scroll/mpcklmodkihb... GitHub: https://github.com/asker-kurtelli/scroll
Dec 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!) HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different. While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This…
2023 · hackyournews.com · its alternatives →
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Search Later▲129Save interesting article keywords to Google them later 🤓
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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AtomicVocab▲91Expand your vocabulary, one tab at a time
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Totem▲141Repo: https://github.com/nnnkit/totem Bookmarking a tweet/article/thread on X is one click, but actually reading it later is like five clicks — open X, dig into history, bookmarks, find the post, and dodge the distraction of new feeds and notifications on the way there. So I had hundreds of genuinely great tweets saved and basically never read any of them. Totem puts that queue on the browser new tab, so reading them is just one click away. No feed distraction, no algorithm, no AI, no server, no account — it's all local. In one sentence "It's like the reading…
Jul 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News, I developed an open source browser extension for summarizing Hacker News articles with OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs. It currently supports Chrome [1] and Firefox [2] (desktop). The extension adds the summarize buttons to the HN front page and article pages. It is bring-your-own-key, i.e. there's no back end behind it and the usage is free, you insert your API key and pay only for tokens to your LLM provider. [1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hacker-news-tldr/oo... [2]…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Remember every article you read online, forever
2023 · harkenapp.com · its alternatives →
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Learn vocabulary while surfing the web
2019 · burningvocabulary.com · its alternatives →
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Skim▲2A second pair of eyes on the papers you'll never reach
May 2026 · paperskim.org · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We're Sam and Kanyes. We're building an extension to help you remember what you read online. We're calling it Ferret [1]. When you open Ferret on an HTML page, it generates recall-based questions + answers to reinforce key concepts with NLP. Consider the following toy example where we open Ferret on an explanation of Bayesian statistics. [2] Q: What does the frequentist interpretation view probability as? A: the limit of the relative frequency of an event after many trials Q: What is often computed in Bayesian statistics using mathematical optimization methods? A:The maximum a…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Timelnfree tier, from $9.99/mo▲13Your entire reading history, as context for any LLM
Aug 2026 · timeln.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Our small team has been working on a side-project for the past few months. We wanted to see how far we could push the capabilities of LLMs with a pretty heavy task - analysing, grouping, and summarising the content of browser tabs or bookmarks. So we built a browser extension called TabCrunch. I've always had a problem with browser tabs and I know many others who do too. The problem is, once you start retaining reading material for later, it quickly piles up. People often have hundreds of tabs open across their various devices that cover many different topics. And it becomes…
2024 · tabcrunch.com · its alternatives →
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Remember what your read. Little time, lots of knowledge.
2015 · gethibou.com · its alternatives →
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Hi guys, Just letting you all know that i've just launched the beta version of Skim.it The smart way to save, sort and share the best of the web. We are trying to solve the problem over information overload on the web and not being able to fins the time to read and remember useful content you discover online. The reason why we started it is because our lives looked like this : http://skimitblog.tumblr.com/image/87300804866 (this is actually my skype account) Anyway id love to get some feedback on the product as its still early stage and look forward to making something…
2014 · skim.it · its alternatives →
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