Looking for a Glasp Alternative?
Glasp is a social web highlighter. Screvi is a private highlights manager: import from Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and the web, then resurface your highlights with spaced repetition and AI-powered search. Your highlights stay yours.
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What is Glasp?
Glasp is a social web highlighting tool with over 500,000 users. Its Chrome extension lets you highlight text on websites and PDFs with colored markers, sync Kindle highlights, and summarize YouTube videos using AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). Glasp's key differentiator is its social layer: your highlights are public by default, visible to other users, and designed to build a shared knowledge base. Glasp offers a free tier with a Pro plan for advanced features like AI video summaries, and sends daily email digests with your highlights. While Glasp is good for web highlighting and social sharing, it lacks a dedicated article reader, spaced repetition, and the depth of highlight management that serious readers need.
Why people look for Glasp alternatives
- Highlights are public by default, and not everyone wants their reading visible to others
- No spaced repetition or review system for remembering what you highlighted
- No article reader or read-it-later functionality: Glasp is a highlighter, not a reader
- No highlights feed for passive rediscovery beyond the daily email
- No Kobo or Apple Books highlight import: limited to Kindle and web
- No AI semantic search across your own highlights: AI is focused on summarization
- Limited mobile experience: primarily a browser extension
- No physical book scanner with AI text extraction
Screvi vs Glasp: Feature Comparison
Screvi: 25/27 features · Glasp: 10/27 features
| Feature | Screvi | Glasp |
|---|---|---|
| Highlight text on websites | ||
| Highlight PDFs | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Import Kindle highlights | ||
| YouTube transcript saving | ||
| AI-powered summaries | Pro plan | |
| Tags | ||
| iOS & Android apps | ||
| Social/community highlights | ||
| AI clone chat | ||
| Import Kobo highlights | ||
| Import Apple Books highlights | ||
| Import Twitter/X bookmarks | ||
| Physical book scanner (OCR) | ||
| Article reader (read-it-later) | ||
| AI semantic search | ||
| Spaced repetition review | ||
| Daily email digest | ||
| Highlights feed | ||
| AI topic discovery | ||
| AI highlight cleanup | ||
| Personal newsletter inbox | ||
| iOS home screen widget | ||
| Private by default | ||
| Tags with colors | ||
| Public API | ||
| Export to Markdown & HTML | Copy to clipboard |
Why choose Screvi over Glasp
Private by default
Glasp makes your highlights public to build a shared knowledge base. Screvi keeps your highlights completely private. Your reading is personal, and your data belongs to you.
More than a web highlighter
Glasp is primarily a browser extension for web highlighting. Screvi is a complete highlights manager with a full article reader, Kindle/Kobo/Apple Books import, physical book scanner, and more.
Remember what you highlight
Glasp has daily email digests, but Screvi goes further with spaced repetition review (SM-2 algorithm), a scrollable highlights feed, and an iOS widget, forming a complete system for actually retaining what you read.
AI semantic search
Glasp's AI is focused on summarizing content. Screvi's AI lets you search your highlights by meaning. Ask "what did I read about decision-making?" and find relevant passages across all your sources.
Import from everywhere
Glasp supports Kindle and web highlights. Screvi adds Kobo, Apple Books, PDFs, physical books, Twitter bookmarks, YouTube, and newsletters, bringing all your reading sources into one place.
Full article reader
Screvi includes a built-in article reader with inbox/read-later/archive workflow, AI summaries, and a personal newsletter inbox. Glasp only highlights. It doesn't help you read.
Switching from Glasp?
Copy your Glasp highlights and use Screvi's AI intelligent parser to import them. Going forward, use the Screvi browser extension for web highlighting and enjoy the added benefits of spaced repetition, AI search, and a full article reader.
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