Ayuti vs Glasp
Ayuti vs Glasp
Glasp is a free Chrome extension for highlighting and summarizing one page — a video, an article, a PDF — at a time. Ayuti is a web app built to keep reading the channels you follow after that one page.
In short
Glasp is a highlighter: open the extension on a video, get a summary, save the good parts into Notion or Roam. Ayuti is built for the videos you didn’t open yet — it follows a channel, turns every new upload into a transcript on its own, and lets you ask questions across the whole library later. They solve different moments, and plenty of people use a highlighter and a library at once.
Side by side
| Feature | Ayuti | Glasp |
|---|---|---|
| What it works on | Any YouTube video, or every video from the channels you follow | One page at a time — video, article or PDF |
| Follows your channels automatically | Yes — a weekly digest email as new videos publish | No — you open the extension per video |
| Ask questions across your whole library | Yes, with the source cited inline (Ayuti Pro) | No — per-video chat only |
| Cross-video synthesis | Yes — The Brief writes a synthesis across your library (Ayuti Pro) | No |
| Browser extension required | No — Ayuti runs as a web app | Yes — Chrome extension |
| Free plan | 1 channel, up to 10 videos a month | 3 AI summaries a day |
| Paid plan | See current pricing | From $15/month |
| Built for | Following specific channels and questioning everything you’ve watched | Saving a summary or quote into your notes app while you watch |
What each one is actually built for
Glasp
Glasp is at its best mid-video: you’re already watching something, you want the gist or a quote to save, and you want it inside the extension you already have open. It also summarizes articles and PDFs, which Ayuti does not.
Ayuti
Ayuti is at its best before and after the video: it watches a channel for you, builds a searchable library automatically, and lets you ask one question across everything you’ve read — something no per-page highlighter is built to do.
Where Ayuti is different
Whole-library Ask
Ask a question and Ayuti answers from every video you’ve processed — not just the one you happen to be looking at — with the source cited inline.
Channels you follow, not links you paste
Add a channel once. Ayuti checks it and emails you a digest as new videos publish, so you don’t have to remember to open anything.
The Brief
Ayuti reads everything new across your library and writes a synthesis of what the sources actually agree — and disagree — on, cited back to the exact line of the transcript.
Nothing to keep updated
Ayuti is a web app, not a browser extension. There is nothing to install, and nothing that quietly breaks the next time YouTube changes its page.
Questions people ask
Can I use Ayuti and Glasp together?
Yes — nothing about either one excludes the other. Glasp is a good fit for pulling a quick highlight into Notion while you watch; Ayuti is what keeps working after you close the tab, on every video the channel publishes next.
Does Ayuti do highlighting or export to Notion, like Glasp?
No. Ayuti’s reader and cross-library Ask are its note-taking layer — there’s no highlight-and-export workflow today.
Is Ayuti free like Glasp?
Both have a free tier. Ayuti’s free plan covers one channel and up to ten videos a month with no time limit on how long you keep them; Glasp’s free tier gives three AI summaries a day. See current pricing for what Ayuti Pro unlocks.
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