Shortform records 847,045 monthly visits with -4.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Zeli records 56,147 monthly visits with -46.8% growth and Free pricing.
In-depth guides that help you actually master non-fiction
Hacker News and AI paper summaries in seven languages
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | shortform.com | zeli.app |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 847.05K (847,045) | 56.15K (56,147) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -39.67K (-4.5%) | -49.3K (-46.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (49.9%) | 🇨🇳 China (65.1%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 146.14K | 39.95K |
| User Rating | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
In-depth guides that help you actually master non-fiction
More than 12,000 book guides, 1,000+ article and topic guides, and podcast breakdowns, with new titles added weekly.
Guides are written with smart analysis and opinionated commentary, so you engage with ideas rather than skim a trimmed abstract.
Every guide has full audio narration and supports offline listening, so commutes and workouts are study time.
Follow your subscription on desktop, iOS or Android, with highlights, notes, PDF downloads and reading lists that travel with you.
Hacker News and AI paper summaries in seven languages
Each story carries a short summary generated from the linked article plus a standout key quote, so you can judge relevance before clicking through.
The whole feed — titles, summaries and top comment highlights — is available in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish and Russian.
Every day gets a permanent page containing every story that hit the front page, retrievable long after the feed has moved on.
Daily AI papers are surfaced with translated titles and AI summaries, making Zeli a research reader as well as a news reader.
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.
Provides concise 15-minute nonfiction book summaries with audio, but lacks the deep analytical guides and cross-book syntheses of Shortform.
Provides concise 15-minute nonfiction book summaries with audio, but lacks the deep analytical guides and cross-book syntheses of Shortform.
A proactive AI reading lens for papers, videos, and web pages
A proactive AI reading lens for papers, videos, and web pages
Offers readable digests and audiobooks of popular titles, but provides less comprehensive analytical breakdowns than Shortform.
Offers readable digests and audiobooks of popular titles, but provides less comprehensive analytical breakdowns than Shortform.
Free AI Summarizer for text, articles, URLs and images
Free AI Summarizer for text, articles, URLs and images
Converts books into personalized audio micro-lessons, but focuses more on bite-sized learning than deep conceptual study guides.
Converts books into personalized audio micro-lessons, but focuses more on bite-sized learning than deep conceptual study guides.
SpecialistTurn podcast listening into lasting knowledge
SpecialistTurn podcast listening into lasting knowledge
AI-powered platform to read, write, and stay current with research
Turn any long article or webpage into a clean, clickable summary in one click
Turn any long article or webpage into a clean, clickable summary in one click
AI summaries and study guides for scientific papers
AI summaries and study guides for scientific papers
AI research workspace for searching, reading and connecting papers
AI research workspace for searching, reading and connecting papers
Highlight dense research text and get plain-language explanations instantly
Highlight dense research text and get plain-language explanations instantly
