Brain.fm records 2,188,538 monthly visits with -10.4% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Sider records 2,644,740 monthly visits with -10.6% growth and Freemium pricing.
Neuroscience-backed functional music for focus, sleep, and relaxation
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brain.fm | sider.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 2.19M (2,188,538) | 2.64M (2,644,740) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -252.96K (-10.4%) | -314.2K (-10.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (50%) | 🇺🇸 United States (13.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.51M | 1.7M |
| User Rating | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Neuroscience-backed functional music for focus, sleep, and relaxation
Activity-based music and soundscapes for Deep Work, Creativity, Learning, Motivation, sleep, and relaxation, plus guided meditation and sleep sessions.
Patented audio modulation designed to enhance and synchronize brainwave activity, with adjustable neural effect levels you can dial up or down.
Higher-stimulation music designed for attention difficulties, backed by research supported in part by a National Science Foundation grant.
Infinite count-up timers, countdown timers, and interval timers that adapt to focus and break sessions.
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
A persistent panel that reads the page you are on and answers follow-ups with GPT, Claude or Gemini without copying content into another tab.
Summarise long articles, PDFs and YouTube videos, extract key points, and ask detailed questions about the source material.
Translate webpages, PDFs and images, compare bilingual output side by side, and have content read aloud for review on the move.
Delegate multi-step tasks across real websites — price comparison, form filling, research and inbox triage — using your existing logged-in sessions.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
SpecialistAnthropic's frontier AI workspace powered by Claude 5.5 for agentic coding, analysis, and nuanced writing.
SpecialistAnthropic's frontier AI workspace powered by Claude 5.5 for agentic coding, analysis, and nuanced writing.
Offers a very similar browser sidebar experience with multiple AI models, but features slightly different pricing and workspace tools.
Offers a very similar browser sidebar experience with multiple AI models, but features slightly different pricing and workspace tools.
SpecialistProvides guided meditations and sleep stories for mental wellness, but offers less continuous instrumental focus music.
SpecialistProvides guided meditations and sleep stories for mental wellness, but offers less continuous instrumental focus music.
Provides robust browser-based summarization and prompt assistance, but lacks some of Sider's deeply integrated multi-model chat UI features.
Provides robust browser-based summarization and prompt assistance, but lacks some of Sider's deeply integrated multi-model chat UI features.
Excels at advanced web automation and data extraction alongside chat, but has a steeper learning curve than Sider.
SpecialistAllows customizing instrumental background tracks and loops, but focuses on media production rather than cognitive enhancement.
SpecialistAllows customizing instrumental background tracks and loops, but focuses on media production rather than cognitive enhancement.
Free / Open-sourceSummarize YouTube, Google, and any page with AI — free in your browser
Free / Open-sourceSummarize YouTube, Google, and any page with AI — free in your browser
Integrates bookmark management and content composition into a clean sidebar, but has a more limited feature set than Sider.
Integrates bookmark management and content composition into a clean sidebar, but has a more limited feature set than Sider.
SpecialistCreates royalty-free background music for videos, but lacks specialized sound engineering designed for deep work concentration.
SpecialistCreates royalty-free background music for videos, but lacks specialized sound engineering designed for deep work concentration.
Delivers streamlined inline writing and webpage summarization via a browser extension, but with fewer custom sidebar tools.
Delivers streamlined inline writing and webpage summarization via a browser extension, but with fewer custom sidebar tools.
