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    Glasp

    Education Assistant

    Glasp is a social web highlighter and AI learning assistant for capturing quotes and insights from articles, PDFs, YouTube, and audio. It builds a personal knowledge feed, supports private highlights, and adds AI summaries, PDF chat, and transcription. Over one million users use it for research, reading, and note export to tools like Notion.

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    Also mentioned

    • Matter (read-later with highlights and AI)
    • Readwise Reader (reading hub with highlight sync)
    • Hypothesis (open annotation for research and education)

    Features & details

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    Category (short)
    Education Assistant
    Category
    Education Assistant
    Pricing (CSV)
    Free Trial
    Directory pricing
    Freemium
    Sponsored note
    no
    Target audience
    YouTube learners wanting inline summaries, Notion users building a highlight-driven knowledge base, Not ideal for: teams needing enterprise document governance and SSO
    Best for
    avid online readers and researchers, YouTube learners wanting inline summaries, Notion users building a highlight-driven knowledge base, Not ideal for: teams needing enterprise document governance and SSO
    Pricing notes
    Verified July 2026 at glasp.co/pricing: Free ($0, public highlights, 3 YouTube summaries/day, 30 PDFs, 20 PDF chat messages/mo). Pro $12.50/mo billed annually ($150/yr; $15/mo monthly since May 2026 update). Unlimited $30/mo annual ($360/yr; $36/mo monthly). 40% student/educator discount on Pro yearly (.edu/.ac email). No lifetime deals.

    Pros & cons

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    Pros

    • excellent highlight-and-share workflow
    • YouTube and PDF AI features in one extension
    • generous free tier for public highlights
    • Notion sync on paid plans

    Cons

    • highlights public by default on free tier
    • AI limits tight on free plan
    • pricing increased May 2026

    Review notes

    Context from the listing review and editorial research.

    Glasp has strong community love on Product Hunt and among PKM enthusiasts. Users praise frictionless highlighting and social discovery; privacy-conscious readers may prefer private-only tools without a public default.

    Extended features

    In-depth description and capability notes.

    Web and PDF highlighting — annotate articles and documents in-browser YouTube summaries — basic (3/day free) and advanced inline summaries on paid plans PDF chat — ask questions about uploaded PDFs with monthly message limits AI chat on pages — page-aware AI chat with credit limits by tier Audio transcription — transcribe and summarize audio files Notion auto-sync — daily export of highlights to Notion on Pro and Unlimited Social discovery — public highlight feed to follow other learners

    Use cases

    Researchers, writers, and students highlight as they read, then use AI summaries to digest long YouTube lectures or PDFs. Knowledge workers sync highlights to Notion for a searchable second brain without manual copy-paste.