Readwise surfaces your highlights from Kindle, articles, and PDFs through daily review emails and spaced repetition. Reader, their newer product, is a full read-later app.
| Feature | Glean | Readwise |
|---|---|---|
| Save from any URL | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-generated summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-extract action items | ✓ | ✗ |
| Task management | ✓ | ✗ |
| Kindle sync | ✗ | ✓ |
| Spaced repetition | ✗ | ✓ |
| Daily review emails | ✗ | ✓ |
| Browser extension | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority sorting | ✓ | ✗ |
Free to start
Free tier with core features. Pro unlocks unlimited AI processing and priority support.
Readwise at $8.99/month. Reader included. No free tier.
You want to turn articles, videos, tweets, and other content into action items automatically. Glean is for people who consume a lot of content and want to do something with it, not just save it.
Heavy readers who want to retain more from books and articles.
Readwise helps you remember what you read. Glean helps you do something about it. Highlights without action items are just passive review.
Choose Readwise if retention through review is your goal. Choose Glean if you want to skip review and go straight to action.
Try Glean free. See the difference between saving content and acting on it.
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