NoteGPT alternatives for videos, notes and study
Every NoteGPT alternative here does less than NoteGPT overall and more in one area: free daily summaries, remembering, studying, or video. Here is who each one suits.
NoteGPT does a lot. It started as a YouTube summarizer and has grown into a wide AI workspace: summaries of videos, audio, PDFs, slides and web pages, transcripts with speaker separation, mind maps, flashcards, quizzes, slide decks, essay and image tools, and a chat where you can pick between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and other models. Its YouTube summarizer takes playlists and batches of 5 to 20 videos depending on the plan, and its pricing page lets videos without subtitles run up to 120 minutes on Pro and 210 on higher plans.
People look for a NoteGPT alternative for a few reasons. The quota system is one: most features draw on one pool, with 15 a month free, and a summary costs 1 per 10,000 words, each chat message 1, though flashcards and quizzes are listed as free. Some only use one feature and want a tool that does that one thing well. Some want a library that keeps what they learn, and some want the refund terms to be gentler: NoteGPT refunds only within 24 hours of a first purchase, minus the premium credits you used, and discounted purchases aren't refundable.
We make Claras, which is on this list. Below is what each option does better than NoteGPT, where it falls short, and who it suits, including where NoteGPT is still the better choice.
The short answer
- Free YouTube summaries while you browse: Glasp.
- One-click summaries on your phone and in Chrome: Eightify.
- A knowledge base with spaced repetition: Recall.
- Research across documents, with citations: Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM).
- Flashcards and quizzes from course material: Mindgrasp.
- A video library with highlights, notes and exports: Video Highlight.
- Many video platforms, mind maps and an API: BibiGPT.
- Video transcripts, summaries, chapters and playlists, with limits you can predict: Claras.
How we checked
We read each product's own site, pricing page or store listing on 11 and 12 November 2026, and only give a price when it was there. Prices change, so check before you buy. For reference, NoteGPT billed yearly is $108 a year for Pro, and Unlimited was $239 a year at a limited-time price, normally $348. Monthly billing costs more.
| Tool | Best for | Study aids | Free plan | Paid, as listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glasp | Quick summaries beside the video | No | 3 summaries beside the video a week, 3 a day sent to an AI chat | Pro $15, or $150 a year |
| Eightify | One-click summaries, also on phones | No | 7-day trial in Chrome | iPhone: $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year |
| Recall | Keeping and remembering what you learn | Spaced repetition quizzes, on Plus | 10 AI summaries a month | Plus $10 a month, billed yearly |
| Gemini Notebook | Research across mixed sources | Flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, reports | 100 notebooks, 50 sources each | Higher limits with Google AI plans |
| Mindgrasp | Students with mixed course material | Flashcards, quizzes, AI tutor | A free trial, and a free YouTube summarizer | Not on its website. App Store: Scholar $12.99 a month |
| Video Highlight | A video library with notes | No | 10 public videos a month | Plus $12 a month, or $96 a year |
| BibiGPT | Many platforms and outputs | Mind maps | 120 minutes once, at sign-up | Plus $19.8 a month |
| Claras | Getting through videos and playlists | No | 3 videos a month | See pricing |
1. Glasp: free summaries while you browse
Glasp's YouTube Summary extension puts a summary and the full transcript beside the player, or sends the video to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini in a new tab. Clicking a key point jumps the video there. You can highlight transcript lines and export notes to Notion, Obsidian, Roam Research and mem.ai. It works on articles and PDFs too, in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, with phone apps.
Where it beats NoteGPT: daily free use. The free plan sends 3 videos a day to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for a summary, and writes 3 of its own beside the video every 7 days. NoteGPT's 15 quotas cover a month.
Where it falls short: we found no study aids on its pages, and its page doesn't say it handles videos without captions. Chat uses credits: 20 a month on free.
Price: Pro is $15 a month, or $150 a year. Unlimited is $30 a month, or $360 a year. See how Claras and Glasp compare.
2. Eightify: one job, one click
Eightify does one thing: click its button on a YouTube video, and you get a summary and key insights in seconds, with timestamps to jump around, plus the top comments. Its Chrome listing says it handles videos up to 10 hours, offers 40+ languages and a transcript generator, and lets one account work across Chrome, iPhone and Android. You can set the focus, format and length of the insights.
Where it beats NoteGPT: simplicity, and phone apps.
Where it falls short: its Chrome and iPhone listings are about YouTube, and don't mention asking questions, playlists or videos without captions. Its website blocked our checks, so this comes from its store listings.
Price: the Chrome extension has a 7-day free trial. In the iPhone app, Pro is $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Read Claras and Eightify compared.
3. Recall: keep what you learn
Recall (formerly getrecall.ai, now recall.it) saves YouTube videos and Shorts, articles, PDFs, podcasts and social posts into one knowledge base. It summarizes each item, and on Plus it tags items, links them into a knowledge graph automatically, and quizzes you with spaced repetition. It transcribes videos with no captions as long as they run under 5 hours.
Where it beats NoteGPT: it is built to help you remember, with unlimited saves even on the free plan. It has four browser extensions, phone apps and Markdown export.
Where it falls short: chat across your library, quizzes and automatic tagging start on Plus, and its own MP4 uploads were listed as coming soon.
Price: free with 10 AI summaries a month. Plus is $10 a month and Max $38 a month, both billed yearly. See Recall and Claras side by side.
4. Gemini Notebook: research across documents
Google's research notebook, renamed from NotebookLM in July 2026, reads PDFs, Docs, Slides, web pages, audio files and YouTube links, and answers with citations that open the quoted passage. It makes Audio and Video Overviews, reports, flashcards, quizzes and mind maps.
Where it beats NoteGPT: a large free plan, of 100 notebooks with 50 sources each, and answers you can trace to the source.
Where it falls short: YouTube sources must be public and have captions, and there is no playlist import on the help pages we read. Our NotebookLM alternatives guide has the detail, and Claras and Gemini Notebook compared covers the video side.
5. Mindgrasp: a study suite
Mindgrasp turns PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints, MP3s, MP4s, articles and YouTube or Vimeo links into notes, summaries, flashcards, quizzes and an AI tutor. It records lectures live, including on a phone with its iOS app, and its Chrome extension reads Canvas, Blackboard and Panopto pages.
Where it beats NoteGPT: live lecture recording and course sites. Its FAQ says every plan has unlimited uploads and no daily limits, and its free YouTube summarizer needs no sign-up.
Where it falls short: prices aren't on its website, and a subscription is needed after a free trial. Its App Store listing shows Scholar at $12.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and Premium at $14.99 or $131.99.
Choose it if you are a student and NoteGPT's flashcards were the main draw. See Claras and Mindgrasp side by side.
6. Video Highlight: a library for videos
Video Highlight imports YouTube videos, playlists and whole channels, and gives timestamped summaries and transcripts in 37 languages. You can highlight and annotate transcripts, chat with answers whose citations jump to the second, and export to Word, Markdown, CSV, SRT, Notion and Readwise. A connector lets Claude and ChatGPT search your library.
Where it beats NoteGPT: keeping and annotating videos, clickable citations, and exports to note apps.
Where it falls short: uploads of your own files need a paid plan, and we found no flashcards or quizzes on its pages. It does transcribe YouTube videos with no captions, up to 150 minutes each on the free plan.
Price: free for 10 public videos and 450 minutes a month. Plus is $12 a month, or $96 a year. Read Video Highlight and Claras compared.
7. BibiGPT: many platforms, many outputs
BibiGPT is the closest to NoteGPT in breadth, but for media. It summarizes links from Bilibili, YouTube, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, X, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Coursera and TED, plus local files, with timestamped summaries, mind maps and chat. It can summarize a YouTube playlist of up to 50 videos with a recap across them, rewrite into articles and slides, translate subtitles, and push to Notion. It has apps on every platform, plus an API and an MCP server.
Where it beats NoteGPT: platform coverage, especially podcasts and Chinese video sites.
Where it falls short: the free allowance is one-off: 120 minutes at sign-up, up to 3 videos of 30 minutes each, without follow-up chat. Instagram isn't in its list of sources.
Price: Plus is $19.8 a month or $142.56 a year, and Pro $34.8 a month or $250.56 a year. Credit packs bill 1 credit per minute of video summary. See BibiGPT and Claras side by side.
8. Claras: video only, with limits you can predict
Claras does far less than NoteGPT. No flashcards, quizzes or mind maps. No PDFs, slides or web pages. No choice of model in the web app, no speaker labels, and no summary length setting, though you can add style instructions of up to 500 characters in the web app's settings. If you use NoteGPT for its range, stay with it.
Claras is for people who mostly used NoteGPT on videos. Paste a YouTube, Instagram or TikTok link, or upload a video or audio file up to 6 hours, and you get a timestamped transcript, a summary with key takeaways, chapters that jump to their moment, and Ask AI. YouTube videos with captions are read directly. Videos without them are transcribed with AI, up to 30 minutes on the free plan and 3 hours on a paid one. The Chrome extension also marks chapters on YouTube's own progress bar.
Limits are counted in videos and hours, not in words per summary: the free plan is 3 videos a month and 1 bulk run, and paid plans are on the pricing page. Bulk Summaries reads a playlist (up to 50 videos) or a YouTube search page (up to 20) and gives you one combined summary or one per video. Channel pages aren't supported, which NoteGPT's paid plans do handle. If you want a different model for a task, Send to AI copies the transcript and opens Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity, and on a paid plan the Chrome extension takes your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key.
First payments come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. The full comparison of NoteGPT and Claras has the detail, and there is a guide to turning lectures into notes.
How to choose
- You use many of NoteGPT's tools: stay, or look at BibiGPT if you need more platforms.
- You only want quick YouTube summaries: Glasp for free daily use, Eightify for phones.
- You want to remember what you learn: Recall.
- You study from documents and lectures: Gemini Notebook or Mindgrasp.
- You want to keep and annotate videos: Video Highlight.
- You want transcripts, summaries and chapters for videos and playlists, with simple limits: Claras.
Questions people ask
What is the best free NoteGPT alternative?
For quick YouTube summaries, Glasp, whose free plan sends 3 videos a day to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for a summary and writes 3 of its own beside the video each week. For research across documents, Gemini Notebook, with 100 free notebooks. For a knowledge base, Recall, with unlimited saves and 10 AI summaries a month.
Which NoteGPT alternative has flashcards and quizzes?
Mindgrasp makes flashcards, quizzes and an AI tutor. Recall quizzes you with spaced repetition on its Plus plan, and Gemini Notebook makes flashcards and quizzes. NoteGPT lists its own flashcards and quizzes as free of quota. Claras, Glasp, Eightify and Video Highlight don't make study aids.
Is there a NoteGPT alternative without quotas?
Claras counts videos and transcription hours, not words or messages. Mindgrasp's FAQ says every plan has unlimited uploads and no daily limits, though its prices aren't public. NoteGPT's own Unlimited and Max plans make basic quotas unlimited.
Which alternative can summarize a YouTube playlist?
Claras's Bulk Summaries reads a playlist of up to 50 videos. BibiGPT summarizes playlists of up to 50 with a recap across them, and Video Highlight imports playlists and channels.
Which one handles videos without captions?
Claras transcribes them, up to 30 minutes free and 3 hours on a paid plan. Recall transcribes caption-less videos that run under 5 hours, and Video Highlight up to 150 minutes on its free plan. Gemini Notebook can't import them from a YouTube link.
Can I choose the AI model like in NoteGPT?
Not inside the Claras web app. Its Send to AI menu opens Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity with your transcript, and on any paid plan the Chrome extension takes your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key. Recall's Max plan also lists model choice.
Which one has the most generous refund?
Claras offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on first payments. NoteGPT refunds only within 24 hours of a first purchase, minus premium credits used. Check each tool's terms before paying.
More guides are on the Claras blog, and every head-to-head we have written is in all comparisons.
Competitor details checked on their own sites and store listings on 11 and 12 November 2026, and they can change. Sources: NoteGPT home page, NoteGPT pricing, NoteGPT quotas, Glasp pricing, Eightify on the Chrome Web Store, Eightify on the App Store, Recall pricing, Gemini Notebook sources, Mindgrasp, Video Highlight pricing, BibiGPT pricing.
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