Gene records 2,491 monthly visits with +87% month-over-month growth and Free pricing. Sider records 2,644,740 monthly visits with -10.6% growth and Freemium pricing.
A low-cost AI assistant that lives in your browser tab
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | askgene.io | sider.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 2.49K (2,491) | 2.64M (2,644,740) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +1.16K (+87%) | -314.2K (-10.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🌐 Global (—) | 🇺🇸 United States (13.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 980 | 1.7M |
| User Rating | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| 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.
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.
One AI assistant that plugs ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini into every tab
One AI assistant that plugs ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini into every tab
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.
Highlight the web, learn in public, and build your AI clone
Highlight the web, learn in public, and build your AI clone
Excels at advanced web automation and data extraction alongside chat, but has a steeper learning curve than Sider.
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.
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.
One AI sidebar for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini across the web
One AI sidebar for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini across the web
AI summarisation, keyword extraction and research for long documents
AI summarisation, keyword extraction and research for long documents
