Recall

Summarizes YouTube videos, articles and PDFs into a linked knowledge graph

What Recall does

  • 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

Recall — straight answers

What is Recall?

Recall is listed under YouTube & Content Summarizers, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Summarizes YouTube videos, articles and PDFs into a linked knowledge graph. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at recall.it.

Is Recall free?

Recall is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 404 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Recall do?

Recall does 4 things the catalog singles out: 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.

What is the best free alternative to Recall?

Glasp is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same YouTube & Content Summarizers sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. NoteGPT also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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NoteGPT

YouTube & Content Summarizers
freemium
  • 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

Glasp

YouTube & Content Summarizers
freemium
  • 2M+ users per vendor; free web/PDF/Kindle highlighter with a social discovery layer of other users' highlights
  • AI YouTube-summary feature using ChatGPT/Claude alongside its core highlighting product
  • Cross-browser support (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Brave, Opera)

Eightify

YouTube & Content Summarizers
trial
  • 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

Perplexity

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Cited, real-time answers (1B+ queries/quarter)
  • Focus modes and file uploads
  • Comet browser and Spaces
  • Strong free tier

ChatGPT Search

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Real-time web answers inside ChatGPT
  • Inline citations and follow-ups
  • Combines search with reasoning
  • Available on the free tier

Grok DeeperSearch

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Live search across X and the open web
  • Best for breaking news and trends
  • Reasoned, sourced summaries
  • Free daily queries

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