Gene records 2,491 monthly visits with +87% month-over-month growth and Free pricing. Glasp records 889,564 monthly visits with -14.1% growth and Freemium pricing.
A low-cost AI assistant that lives in your browser tab
Highlight the web, learn in public, and build your AI clone
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | askgene.io | glasp.co |
| Pricing Model | Free | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 2.49K (2,491) | 889.56K (889,564) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +1.16K (+87%) | -146.38K (-14.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🌐 Global (—) | 🇺🇸 United States (15.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 980 | 400.6K |
| User Rating | 4.1 | 4.2 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
A low-cost AI assistant that lives in your browser tab
Summon the AI chat without leaving the page you are on, so context from your current tab stays in front of you.
Chat with web pages, Google Docs, YouTube videos, and PDFs to pull out key points quickly.
Capture text or an image on screen and ask Gene to explain, translate, or interpret it.
Turn short prompts into illustrations and design assets for creative projects.
Highlight the web, learn in public, and build your AI clone
Mark up passages on any website or lines in a YouTube transcript from a browser extension, then keep them in one searchable library.
Highlights are shared publicly by default, so you can follow other users, react to their picks and discover sources through people with similar interests.
Generate summaries of long articles, PDFs and YouTube videos to judge relevance fast and to digest what you have already saved.
Trained on your accumulated highlights and notes, the AI clone answers in the shape of your reading history and areas of interest.
SpecialistThe AI workspace where teams and agents get work done together
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
All-in-one AI assistant across web, browser, desktop and mobile
All-in-one AI assistant across web, browser, desktop and mobile
SpecialistExcels at deep scientific literature reading and analysis, whereas Glasp targets general web and video content curation.
SpecialistExcels at deep scientific literature reading and analysis, whereas Glasp targets general web and video content curation.
Offers a broader multi-model sidebar for quick page summarization, but lacks Glasp's community-driven public highlighting and curation.
Offers a broader multi-model sidebar for quick page summarization, but lacks Glasp's community-driven public highlighting and curation.
Provides faster multi-tab AI assistance and article summaries, but lacks dedicated social knowledge curation and note archiving features.
Provides faster multi-tab AI assistance and article summaries, but lacks dedicated social knowledge curation and note archiving features.
Delivers powerful web automation and page summarization, but features a steeper learning curve than Glasp's streamlined extension.
SpecialistConverts academic papers into structured summary flashcards, but lacks Glasp's broad web article and YouTube highlighting capabilities.
SpecialistConverts academic papers into structured summary flashcards, but lacks Glasp's broad web article and YouTube highlighting capabilities.
Free / Open-sourceProvides open-source YouTube and webpage summarization directly in search results, but lacks Glasp's long-term knowledge management.
Free / Open-sourceProvides open-source YouTube and webpage summarization directly in search results, but lacks Glasp's long-term knowledge management.
Combines webpage summarization with bookmark management, but provides less robust community social curation than Glasp.
Combines webpage summarization with bookmark management, but provides less robust community social curation than Glasp.
SpecialistSpecializes in timestamped YouTube video summaries, but offers much weaker web article highlighting and knowledge management tools.
SpecialistSpecializes in timestamped YouTube video summaries, but offers much weaker web article highlighting and knowledge management tools.
Builds a similar connected knowledge base from saved content, but emphasizes structured concept maps over social highlighting.
Builds a similar connected knowledge base from saved content, but emphasizes structured concept maps over social highlighting.
