Recall
Recall is a personal AI knowledge base. Officially, it is used by 700,000 professionals. It can summarize articles, videos, podcasts and PDFs, and automatically connect them. You can use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to converse with your saved content.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Recall?
Recall positions itself as "your second brain," with the official slogan "Summarize everything, remember nothing." It stores all the articles you’ve read, videos you’ve watched, and podcasts you’ve listened to in a knowledge base that automatically organizes and connects them. It emphasizes that answers come from sources you trust, not the best guesses from the internet, making it ideal for long-term knowledge accumulation.
Who is it for?
- Scholars and analysts conducting in-depth research who need to conduct integrated searches across a large volume of documents and videos.
- Lifelong learners who want to turn scattered readings and podcasts into a queryable knowledge base.
- Content creators who need to quickly review past materials and generate new ideas.
- Knowledge management enthusiasts who agree with the "Build a Second Brain" workflow.
- Working professionals who need unified search across sources and to avoid scattered information.
Key features
6Multi-type content summarization
Supports articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, PDFs, social media posts and even recipes. Officially called "Summarize anything".
Automatically Organized and Interlinked
All content is stored in a unified knowledge base, automatically categorized and cross-linked for easy rediscovery. Officially described as "automatically organized and interlinked".
Conversations Based on Saved Content
Engage in Q&A with your saved content using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Officially described as "Get answers from your trusted sources".
Note-taking & Highlighting
Take notes and mark key points on the content, and save them to the knowledge base. It is officially stated that you can "take notes" and save them uniformly.
Multi-scenario usage
The official lists entry points such as podcasts, YouTube, PDFs, articles, social media posts and recipes, covering various scenarios from commuting listening to serious reading and cooking.
Reliable Scale
It is officially stated that it is used by more than 700,000 professionals, with an app rating of 4.7/5 based on 464 reviews, and it has received recommendations from Tiago Forte, the author of *Building a Second Brain*.
How to use Recall
- 1First, use the browser extension to save your regularly read articles and videos to Recall with one click, letting it automatically summarize and create links.
- 2Just ask the AI about old content to retrieve the key points of the paragraphs you saved five years ago using natural language.
- 3The free version lets you experience core summarization and conversation; evaluate the paid plan for heavy use.
- 4Pay attention to the data policies of the integrated third-party models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) and store sensitive information cautiously.
- 5Treat it as a tool for retrieval and inspiration; your final judgment and citations still require you to verify the original text yourself.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Recall receives about 116.3K visits per month and ranks #389,839 worldwide.
Monthly visits
7 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct58.3%
- Search16.1%
- Social12.7%
- Referrals9.6%
- Mail1.8%
- Other1.6%
Top countries
- United States54.9%
- United Kingdom6.0%
- Australia5.4%
- India4.5%
- South Africa2.5%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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