Best free Glasp alternatives

Looking for a free alternative to Glasp? Here are 9 youtube & content summarizers worth trying — 8 with a free tier. Glasp itself is free tier + paid.

ToolGlasp (you searched)NoteGPTRecallEightify
Pricingfreemiumfreemiumfreemiumtrial
Best for2M+ users per vendor; free web/PDF/Kindle highlighter with a social discovery layer of other users' highlights400,000 active Chrome Web Store users as of Jul 2026, ~12,683 ratings at 4.0/5Summarizes YouTube videos, articles and PDFs into a linked knowledge graphSummarizes YouTube videos up to 10 hours long in ~5 seconds
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Glasp alternatives — straight answers

What is the best free alternative to Glasp?

NoteGPT is the closest free alternative to Glasp: same YouTube & Content Summarizers sub-category, and it is free tier + paid. 400,000 active Chrome Web Store users as of Jul 2026, ~12,683 ratings at 4.0/5

Are there free Glasp alternatives?

Yes — 8 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: NoteGPT, Recall, Scira, Morphic, Metaso AI Search (Mita). The other 1 are trial or paid.

Is Glasp free?

Glasp is free tier + paid. There is a free tier you can work in, with paid plans above it.

How were these Glasp alternatives chosen?

They are the other tools in YouTube & Content Summarizers, then the rest of Research & Learning, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.

NoteGPT

YouTube & Content Summarizers
freemium

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — 400,000 active Chrome Web Store users as of Jul 2026, ~12,683 ratings at 4.0/5.

  • 400,000 active Chrome Web Store users as of Jul 2026, ~12,683 ratings at 4.0/5
  • Batch-summarizes up to 20 videos at once, works even on videos without captions
  • Bundles summaries with flashcards, mind maps and slide generation, not just text output

Recall

YouTube & Content Summarizers
freemiumNew

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — Summarizes YouTube videos, articles and PDFs into a linked knowledge graph.

  • Summarizes YouTube videos, articles and PDFs into a linked knowledge graph
  • Free forever plan: 10 AI summaries per month, unlimited saving and notes
  • API and MCP access even on the free plan
  • No credit card required

Eightify

YouTube & Content Summarizers
trial

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — Summarizes YouTube videos up to 10 hours long in ~5 seconds.

  • Summarizes YouTube videos up to 10 hours long in ~5 seconds
  • Translations/summaries in 40+ languages
  • Uses both Claude and GPT models under the hood per vendor

Scira

AI Search & Answer Engines
free

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — Free, no credit card required.

  • Free, no credit card required
  • Open-source (git.new/scira)
  • Multi-mode search: web, Reddit, academic papers, video, fact-check

Morphic

AI Search & Answer Engines
free

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — Open-source, Apache 2.0, self-hostable generative-UI search engine.

  • Open-source, Apache 2.0, self-hostable generative-UI search engine
  • 9k+ GitHub stars, actively maintained
  • Pluggable model (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/Ollama) and search backends (Tavily/Brave/Exa)

Metaso AI Search (Mita)

AI Search & Answer Engines
freeNew

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — Ad-free AI search with direct answers.

  • Ad-free AI search with direct answers
  • Built-in slide presentation and video generation
  • File upload and API access
  • Free to use

STORM (Stanford)

Deep Research & Documents
free

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — MIT-licensed open-source system that researches a topic and writes a full cited report.

  • MIT-licensed open-source system that researches a topic and writes a full cited report
  • Perspective-guided simulated conversations to deepen research before writing
  • Co-STORM variant adds human-AI collaborative curation

Tongyi DeepResearch

Deep Research & Documents
freeNew

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — 30.5B-parameter MoE agent (3.3B active) with 128K context for long-horizon research.

  • 30.5B-parameter MoE agent (3.3B active) with 128K context for long-horizon research
  • Free demos on Hugging Face Space and ModelScope
  • Also reachable through OpenRouter API
  • Apache 2.0; ReAct and IterResearch Heavy modes

MiroThinker

Deep Research & Documents
freeNew

✦ WhyA Glasp alternative — Deep research agent with up to 300 tool calls per task and 256K context.

  • Deep research agent with up to 300 tool calls per task and 256K context
  • Scores 74.0 on BrowseComp and 75.3 on BrowseComp-ZH (v1.7)
  • Free online demo at dr.miromind.ai
  • Apache 2.0

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