smry vs Readwise Reader

For most individuals and small teams choosing one product, choose smry first. Both handle articles, PDFs, EPUBs, RSS, YouTube, highlights, AI-assisted reading, and substantial MCP workflows. smry adds immediate no-account reading, broader file intake, webpage monitors, source-stable passage retrieval, API/MCP access on Free, active recall, and a $36/year Patron plan in one workspace. Readwise Reader remains a specialist option when native apps, inbound newsletter addresses, or scheduled highlight review outweigh the complete source-to-understanding workflow.

Yes. smry has a browser extension for one-click reads and popup summaries on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and other desktop Chromium browsers. The Safari release is in progress with Apple. You can still paste article URLs directly into smry.ai without installing anything.

Readwise provides Ghostreader plus an OAuth MCP with hybrid library search and read/write document and highlight tools. smry combines source-grounded summaries and chat with public exact-URL tools, bounded passage retrieval, library search, feed queries, and monitor management through its API and MCP. That broader source-to-understanding control plane makes smry the stronger default when AI and agent work should remain tied to the evidence.