Glasp vs Semantic Scholar

Glasp is a social web highlighter. With its browser extension you can highlight and annotate text on any web page or PDF, collect everything in one place and, if you like, share your highlights publicly to learn alongside others with similar interests.

Glasp is also well known for its YouTube summaries: it shows a video's transcript and can create an AI summary of it, so you can skim long videos quickly. You can import Kindle highlights, export notes to tools such as Notion and Obsidian, and use AI to summarise and connect your saved ideas. Over time your highlights become a personal, searchable knowledge library.

Good fit if you: read a lot online and want to save, organise and revisit th…

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered search engine for scientific literature, built by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). It indexes hundreds of millions of academic papers across science and medicine and uses AI to help researchers find and understand the most relevant work faster.

Key features include TLDR summaries (one-sentence AI summaries of papers), citation graphs that show which papers influenced a result, research feeds that recommend new papers based on your library, and the Semantic Reader, which adds inline citation cards and explanations while you read a PDF. Developers can also use the free Semantic Scholar API.

Good fit if you: are a student, researcher or journalist who n…