Pick the surface that fits the moment
The page you are standing on
The extension is the shortest path. Click the toolbar button and the page is saved to your queue, with a toast on the page for tagging it or dropping it into Inbox or Later. You can set the button to open the page in smry’s reader instead, or to show a two-action popup. Right-click gives you four more: open this page, open this link, save this page, save the text you selected.Alt+Shift+S opens the current page in the
reader without touching the mouse.
The extension also captures the page as your browser rendered it and uploads
that. This matters for anything you are signed into — a page a server-side
fetch would be turned away from is a page your own browser has already
downloaded. A captured page can be up to 4 MiB of HTML.
Two extras ride along. On YouTube, a “Get Video Insights” button appears beside
the video title. And if you turn it on in the extension’s settings, smry can
sync your X bookmarks — that permission is never requested for you, only by
your own deliberate gesture.
Where it is published
The extension is on the Chrome Web Store and on Firefox Add-ons. Edge and Opera run the Chrome build, and smry points those browsers at the Chrome listing. A Safari build exists but is not in the App Store yet, so treat Safari as not yet supported.The phone in your pocket
Install the “Open in smry” shortcut from smry.ai/ios-shortcut. It lands in the Share Sheet, so anything with a share button — Safari, a mail app, a podcast client — can hand a link straight over. Run it with nothing selected and it reads your clipboard instead.A browser you cannot install anything into
The bookmarklet is one line of JavaScript sitting in your bookmarks bar. Click it on any page and smry opens that page in a new tab. Get it from smry.ai/bookmarklet. It has no permissions and no moving parts, so it works on a locked-down work machine where an extension will not install.Files that were never on the web
Upload happens from the import page or the capture dialog, in three modes: a link, a file, or plain text you paste in. smry accepts documents (pdf, docx, doc, epub, odt, rtf, txt,
md), spreadsheets and slides (xlsx, xls, ods, pptx, ppt, odp),
data and mail (csv, tsv, eml, srt, html, xml), images (jpg,
png, webp, svg, gif, bmp) and audio (mp3, m4a, wav).
Two ceilings, and they are different numbers. Anything parsed for text caps
at 25 MiB. That is every document, image, and spreadsheet in the list.
Audio files go up to 100 MiB, which is also the absolute ceiling on any
single upload. There is no separate, smaller limit for PDFs or EPUBs — they sit
under the same 25 MiB cap as everything else.
The check is on the file extension, and the bytes have to match it. A .pdf
that is not a PDF inside is refused. Every upload is scanned for viruses before
it is stored, and a scan that cannot complete blocks the upload rather than
waving it through.
After upload, smry extracts the text, files the item in your library, and keeps
the original bytes so you can stream the real file back later.
Questions
Do I need an account to save things?
Do I need an account to save things?
For uploads, yes — file upload is signed-in only. The reader itself works
without an account.
How much can I store?
How much can I store?
Free holds 100 MB. Patron holds 10 GB. Pro holds 100 GB. Running out
returns a clear error rather than silently dropping the file.
Is there a desktop app?
Is there a desktop app?
Not yet. The desktop page says “coming soon” and ships no downloads.
Can I save things by email?
Can I save things by email?
No. There is no address you can forward a link to today.
Will the extension work on a page I had to sign in to?
Will the extension work on a page I had to sign in to?
Usually. It captures the page your browser already rendered, so your own
session is what fetches it. A few publishers smry refuses to read at all,
and a hard paywall is still a hard paywall.
What does the extension get to see?
What does the extension get to see?
It asks for access to smry’s own domains only. Page capture rides on the
tab you are looking at when you click, not on a standing permission over
every site you visit.
Next
Read it
What happens to a page once smry has it.
Your library
Where everything you save lands, and how to sort it.
Save with an agent
The same library, driven by Claude Code or Cursor.