ReadSmart records 0 monthly visits with — month-over-month growth and Free pricing. SciSpace records 4,464,111 monthly visits with +8.6% growth and Freemium pricing.
One-click AI summaries of any webpage from your Chrome sidebar
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | chromewebstore.google.com | scispace.com |
| Pricing Model | Free | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 0 (0) | 4.46M (4,464,111) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | 0 (—) | +355.38K (+8.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🌐 Global (—) | 🇺🇸 United States (13.2%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 0 | 1.32M |
| User Rating | 1.6 | 4.6 |
| Supported Platforms | Browser Extension | Website |
One-click AI summaries of any webpage from your Chrome sidebar
Press the sidebar button on any page and ReadSmart returns a condensed summary of the page's text without you scrolling through everything.
Rather than dumping the whole page into a summary box, the extension detects the main textual content, which works best on news sites and long-form blogs.
Summaries you have already generated are kept, so you can return to a page you read earlier and jump straight back into the gist.
The extension lives in the Chrome sidebar, so generating a summary never pulls you out of your current tab or workflow.
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
Open or upload a paper and ask questions, get plain-language explanations of highlighted passages, and pull out methods, results and limitations conversationally.
Search a large scholarly index spanning Google Scholar, PubMed and arXiv, then generate structured literature reviews and related-work sections from what you find.
An AI Writer for drafts, a paraphraser for academic tone, and a citation generator that formats references in popular styles.
Turn tables and results in a paper into structured data, and check whether a manuscript reads as AI-generated with a built-in detector.
SpecialistOffers broad general reasoning and document upload capabilities, but lacks specialized academic indexing and citation databases.
SpecialistOffers broad general reasoning and document upload capabilities, but lacks specialized academic indexing and citation databases.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of scholarly literature with citation graphs, but lacks built-in interactive paper reading assistants.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of scholarly literature with citation graphs, but lacks built-in interactive paper reading assistants.
Provides evidence-based answers extracted directly from peer-reviewed papers, though less of an all-in-one reading workspace.
Provides evidence-based answers extracted directly from peer-reviewed papers, though less of an all-in-one reading workspace.
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
Stronger automated data extraction and systematic review synthesis, but less focused on interactive PDF annotation than SciSpace.
Stronger automated data extraction and systematic review synthesis, but less focused on interactive PDF annotation than SciSpace.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on assisted academic drafting and autocomplete, whereas SciSpace centers more on reading and analysis.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on assisted academic drafting and autocomplete, whereas SciSpace centers more on reading and analysis.
One-click AI assistant for browsing, writing and research
One-click AI assistant for browsing, writing and research
Highlight the web, learn in public, and build your AI clone
Highlight the web, learn in public, and build your AI clone
Excels at tracking citation contexts and how papers cite each other, but has less robust general PDF chat features.
Excels at tracking citation contexts and how papers cite each other, but has less robust general PDF chat features.
One browser agent that combines every major AI model with web automation
Free AI Summarizer for text, articles, URLs and images
Free AI Summarizer for text, articles, URLs and images
Streamlines literature searches and reference management like SciSpace, but with a distinct citation workflow.
Streamlines literature searches and reference management like SciSpace, but with a distinct citation workflow.
