smry

smry is an AI reading agent and research workspace that reads and summarizes material, organizes it in a library, and answers questions with the exact passage. It offers a 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 materials include YouTube videos, PDFs, EPUBs, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, text, Markdown, and subtitle files. Listed 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, Anki, Markdown, and JSON. Signed-in accounts, including Free, receive a personal Developer API and Streamable HTTP MCP server, with higher limits on Patron and Pro. Free is free and includes 100 feeds and 3 webpage monitors. Patron costs $6 a month and Pro costs $80 a month. The site says its desktop app is coming soon; native iOS and Android apps are not currently shipped.

smry combines reading, summaries, question answering, and a searchable library across many kinds of content. Its free tier has stated feed and monitor limits, and the site says native mobile apps are not currently available.

smry may suit individuals and small teams who follow many publications or use agents. It is also relevant to readers who want searchable materials, source-grounded answers, and exportable highlights.

smry is a reading and research workspace for people who want to gather material from many sources, then revisit it through summaries and passage-linked answers. It is best suited to readers and small teams with active reading queues or agent workflows. Its broad content support and searchable library make it more compelling as an ongoing workspace than as an occasional summarizer.

Overview

smry brings a clean reader, summaries, question answering, highlights, notes, audio, and a searchable library into one service. Answers tied to exact passages give readers a way to check the source behind a response, which is useful for research and reference. The range is a strength for people managing varied material, while someone who only wants a quick recap may not need the surrounding workspace.

Key features

Feeds, reading, and files

Users can follow RSS and Atom feeds, podcasts, YouTube channels, Reddit communities, X accounts, creator transcripts, and selected webpage monitors. smry also supports YouTube videos, PDFs, EPUBs, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, text, Markdown, and subtitle files. That range suits readers who work across formats and sources; feed and monitor caps still make plan choice matter for large collections.

Research and integrations

Highlights, notes, audio, and a searchable library support returning to material after the initial read. Connections include Readwise Reader, Matter, keep.md, Raindrop.io, Instapaper, Notion, GitHub Stars, Pocket, and Safari Reading List. Highlights can be exported for Notion, Obsidian, Readwise, Zotero, Tana, Workflowy, Roam Research, Anki, Markdown, and JSON, giving readers several ways to carry their notes into other workflows.

API and agents

Every signed-in account, including Free, gets a personal Developer API and a Streamable HTTP MCP server, with higher limits on Patron and Pro. This makes smry relevant to readers building agent workflows, while the published plan limits determine how much capacity those workflows can use.

Pricing

smry has a Free plan at no cost, Patron at $6 a month, and Pro at $80 a month. Patron is billed $6 monthly and Pro $80/mo. The pricing note also says paid access starts at $36/yr and advertises a 7-day trial; Patron includes a 7-day no-card trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Free has meaningful daily caps on summaries, article chats, and audio, as well as lower feed, monitor, and offline-body limits. Patron raises feed capacity tenfold and monitors from 3 to 10, but Pro is the step up for extensive monitoring, folder organization, multiple active API keys, and larger storage. Pro costs much more than Patron, so its scale matters most to users who will use those higher limits. The plans state feed and monitor quotas, but do not state seat counts.

Platforms

smry is available on the web, as an extension, and on iOS. The site says its native iOS and Android apps are not currently shipped, and its dedicated desktop app is coming soon. Readers who want a dedicated mobile or desktop app should account for that before choosing it.

Who it's for

smry fits individuals and small teams following many publications, reading across file types, and wanting a searchable record of what they collect. Its passage-linked answers and API and MCP access also suit readers who want to question source material or connect it to agent workflows. It is a weaker choice for someone who only needs occasional summaries or expects a shipped native mobile app.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Passage-linked answers pair summaries with a way to check the source material.
• Feeds span publications, social communities, video, podcasts, and selected webpages, while document support covers common reading and research formats.
• Highlights can be exported to a broad range of note-taking and research tools, and signed-in Free accounts also get API and MCP access.
• The Free plan includes 100 feeds and 3 webpage monitors, giving readers room to build a modest collection before paying.

Cons

• Free caps daily summaries, chats, and audio, which can constrain regular use.
• Native iOS and Android apps are not shipped, and the dedicated desktop app is still coming soon.
• Pro costs $80 a month, making its extensive quotas a poor fit for readers who do not need high feed, monitor, storage, or API limits.
• The plans do not state seat counts, which leaves teams without a clear basis for evaluating per-user fit.

Alternatives

For readers comparing tools in this category, browse AI Summarizers.

• QuillBot is another freemium option, with a free plan and support across Android, iOS, desktop, web, and browser extensions.
• Choose Briefy if its 30 monthly free credits and Standard response speed suit your reading volume, or if you want its Premium plan at $89.88 a year.
• Lemora offers a free plan with daily limits on uploads and tutor chats, with a Pro plan that removes those daily limits.
• Summify may suit students who want 5 free analyses per day and a Scholar plan at $4.99 a month that requires a .edu school email.
• Summio offers free public summaries, with a first AI summary that includes one translation and 10 chat questions.
• AskSia is a freemium alternative available across mobile, desktop, web, and extensions.
• Paraphraser.io is a freemium alternative with Android, iOS, web, and API access.
• Podwise is a freemium alternative with a free trial, podcast Q&A, clips, and translation in its Standard plan at $9.90 a month.

Verdict

Choose smry if you want one searchable workspace for feeds, files, summaries, and source-grounded questions, especially if you follow many publications or use agents. Its broad input support and export options give it a clear role beyond quick recaps. Look elsewhere if native mobile apps are essential, or if Free’s daily limits and Pro’s monthly price do not match your reading volume.