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Active Recall

Web Application 4.4/5 WebBrowser extensionMobile app

What is Active Recall?

Save, organize, and chat with your knowledge using AI. Automatically summarizes and connects content from any source.

Recall is an AI-powered knowledge base that lets you save, organize, and interact with your content. It automatically summarizes, tags, and connects related information from various sources like web pages, PDFs, YouTube videos, and notes. You can chat with your knowledge using AI models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini, and generate quizzes with spaced repetition for better retention. Trusted by over 500,000 professionals, it offers a browser extension, web app, and mobile app.

Key Features

One-click save from browser or phone
AI-powered summaries (read or listen)
Automatic tagging and organization
Knowledge graph visualization
Chat with your knowledge using GPT, Claude, Gemini
Quiz generation with spaced repetition
Highlight and note-taking
Voice cloning for summaries
Augmented browsing with automatic connections
Data export in Markdown
Privacy-focused (local browsing, cloud storage)
Supports multiple content types: TikTok, YouTube, PDF, articles, notes, podcasts, Wikipedia, recipes

Use Cases

Students save lecture videos, articles, and notes, then use AI summaries and spaced repetition quizzes to retain information for exams, cutting study time by half.
Researchers collect papers and web articles, and chat with their knowledge base to quickly find relevant insights across hundreds of sources, accelerating literature reviews.
Professionals save industry news, podcasts, and internal documents, and get automatic connections between related ideas, enabling faster decision-making and deeper expertise.
Content creators save inspiration from TikTok, YouTube, and blogs, then use AI to summarize and organize ideas, streamlining their content planning and research.
Lifelong learners curate a personal knowledge base from books, podcasts, and online courses, and use AI quizzes to reinforce learning on a spaced repetition schedule.
Managers save team meeting notes, project updates, and industry reports, and chat with their knowledge to quickly retrieve context for strategic planning and reporting.
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Alternatives

Notion Evernote Roam Research Obsidian
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Active Recall do?

Save, organize, and chat with your knowledge using AI. Automatically summarizes and connects content from any source.

What are alternatives to Active Recall?

Popular alternatives to Active Recall include Notion, Evernote, Roam Research, Obsidian.

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