SMRY vs Readwise Reader

See how SMRY and Readwise Reader compare on features, pricing, and reading experience.

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Feature-by-feature comparison

Article extraction

Extract clean article text from any URL

Reading themes

Light, dark, and custom reading themes

11 themes

Multiple themes

YouTube transcripts

Read YouTube videos as text

RSS feeds

Subscribe to publication feeds

Newsletter integration

Read email newsletters in-app

PDF & EPUB support

Read PDFs and ebooks in-app

Last updated March 2026

Pricing comparison

See how SMRY and Readwise Reader compare on pricing.

Pro

$3/mo

per month (annual)

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Full

$9.99/mo

per month

Why people switch to SMRY

More than just another read-it-later app.

70% cheaper

SMRY Pro is $3/mo vs Readwise at $9.99/mo. Both offer AI features, but SMRY costs a fraction of the price.

Generous free tier

SMRY offers 20 AI summaries/day, 20 chats/day, and 4 TTS listens free. Readwise has no free tier — only a 30-day trial.

No signup required

Paste a URL and start reading instantly. No account needed for core reading, summaries, and chat.

YouTube transcripts

Read any YouTube video as text and chat with it. Readwise Reader doesn't support YouTube content.

Frequently asked questions

No. Readwise Reader has spaced repetition, RSS feeds, newsletter integration, PDF/EPUB support, and native export to Notion/Obsidian that SMRY doesn't have. SMRY focuses on instant article reading with AI features at a much lower price point.

Not yet. You paste article URLs directly into smry.ai. A browser extension is on our roadmap.

SMRY uses Groq (Llama 3.3 70B) for summaries and Gemini 2.0 Flash for chat. You can ask follow-up questions about any article. Ghostreader uses GPT-4 and has built-in prompts for definitions, translations, and more.

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