smry is an AI reading agent for collecting articles and other material, summarizing them, and answering questions with the exact passage. It provides a clean reader, source-grounded summaries and answers, highlights, notes, audio and a searchable library. Users can follow RSS and Atom feeds, podcasts, YouTube channels, Reddit communities, X accounts, creator transcripts and selected webpage monitors. Supported material includes YouTube videos, PDFs, EPUBs, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, text, Markdown and subtitle files. Connections include Readwise Reader, Matter, keep.md, Raindrop.io, Instapaper, Notion, GitHub Stars, Pocket and Safari Reading List. Highlights can be exported for tools including Notion, Obsidian, Readwise, Zotero, Tana, Workflowy, Roam Research and Anki, as well as Markdown and JSON. Signed-in accounts, including Free, get a personal Developer API and Streamable HTTP MCP server, with higher limits on Patron and Pro. Free lists 100 feeds and 3 webpage monitors; Patron is 6.00 USD per month and Pro is 80.00 USD per month. The dedicated desktop app is described as coming soon, and native iOS and Android apps are not currently shipped.
Who it is for
smry suits individuals and small teams who want one workspace for reading, feeds, notes and source-grounded questions. Its listed API and MCP server may also suit readers working with agents.
What is good
- Summaries and answers are grounded in source passages
- Follows feeds, podcasts and social sources
- Supports documents, presentations and video
- Highlights export to numerous listed formats
- Free accounts include a Developer API and MCP server
What to know first
- Free plan limits feeds to 100
- Free plan limits webpage monitors to 3
- Native iOS and Android apps are not shipped
- Dedicated desktop app is coming soon
Verdict
smry brings reading, summaries, annotations and a searchable library together with broad content and export support. Free includes feed and monitor limits, while native mobile apps are not currently available.
smry plans and pricing
All plansCompared on AI summarizers
- Free plan
- Yes
- Document upload
- Yes
- Webpage summaries
- Yes
- Transcript summaries
- Yes
- Export formats
- markdown
