Recall

Your Personal AI Encyclopedia

4.7•42 reviews•

5.9K followers

Your Personal AI Encyclopedia

4.7•42 reviews•

5.9K followers

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Knowledge base software

Traditional knowledge management is passive—information is stored but rarely revisited. Recall shifts this paradigm by transforming saved knowledge into active insights. Summarize content, chat with it, store it in a self-organizing knowledge base, and reinforce learning with spaced repetition. The foundation of Recall is its knowledge graph, which automatically links related concepts—uncovering hidden connections you might have otherwise missed.

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4.7

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Recall earns strong praise for turning saved content into useful insights: users highlight fast, reliable summaries, automatic linking that surfaces surprising connections, and spaced repetition that boosts retention. It’s popular for YouTube, PDFs, and research, often replacing bookmarking tools. UI is clean and intuitive. Common asks: better mobile/desktop apps with shortcuts, batch PDF uploads, more highlight colors, optional controls to reduce auto-created graph clutter, import integrations, and broader language support (notably Polish). Overall, a polished, time‑saving companion that helps people revisit and learn from what they collect.

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Pros

AI summary (13)

content organization (12)

automatic linking (11)

knowledge graph (9)

spaced repetition (8)

time-saving (7)

automatic categorization (4)

chat with knowledge base (4)

self-organizing knowledge base (4)

chrome extension (3)

Cons

mobile experience (3)

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•11 reviews

What's great

spaced repetition (8)AI summary (13)self-organizing knowledge base (4)automatic linking (11)

Brilliant AI Tool… Until You Realize It Doesn’t Automate Polish and the pdf problem
Recall promised intuitive AI summaries, idea-linking smart graphs, and memory‑boosting quizzes. But there’s a huge catch: no native Polish support. The interface and all output default to English. You can manually prompt the AI in Polish—but there’s no automation or seamless flow.
Also, while it supports large file size (up to 100 MB per PDF), you can only upload one PDF at a time. Compare that to competitors that let you batch upload 10 or more files—it’s slow and inconvenient if you work with many documents.
Unless Polish language support is added—and batch PDF uploads appear—Recall is not viable for users like me working primarily in Polish.

Thank you so much for your quick and thoughtful reply. I really appreciate that you acknowledged the need for Polish language support and are planning to launch it in the next two months. That’s exactly the kind of responsiveness that builds trust.
I also greatly value that you’re putting bulk PDF upload on your backlog—even if I can only upload one file at a time for now, I understand the cost considerations and limits. It’s reassuring to hear that you’re treating it as a “quick one to implement.”
Thanks again for listening and taking real action. Looking forward to future updates!

Warm regards,
Vivian

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62 views8mo ago

Recall

Hi Vivian, thanks for the feedback - very useful. We are working on support more languages like Polish and will be available in the coming 2 months. For bulk PDF upload, that is a good suggestion. I will make a task on our backlog. It should be a quick one to implement - the main consideration for us is making reasonable limits to the size of the PDFs as it can quickly become very expensive for us if a user uploads 100s of PDFs at once.

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8mo ago

•1 review

What's great

time-saving (7)chrome extension (3)content organization (12)knowledge graph (9)chat with knowledge base (4)ontology engine (1)markdown export (2)

Usecase: pull 80+ videos off YouTube featuring non-fiction author I'm reading. Bulk tag them by his name. Start asking questions and getting detailed answers from those 80+ video transcripts. Being able to save these chats also! Fantastic. Also your detailed video tutorials are outstanding. Collectively, joy ! Pure joy to use!

What needs improvement

mobile experience (3)

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69 views5mo ago

•1 review

° Recall has become indispensable for me — I use it constantly for summarizing and organizing info from numerous YouTube videos and web articles — it has replaced Raindrop as my info repository ° Recall can create both detailed and concise summaries — both are done excellently ° its tagging system works wonderfully for finding and organizing info ° HOW IT COULD BE IMPROVED // it has a knowledge graph feature which I don't use — Recall will automatically create new cards under various categories and links to them for every new info card I add — while some users might appreciate this as a means to automatically categorize & organize any and all info added, I find it annoying — I have a preference for organizing all my cards manually to keep my repository tidy & tight — Recall creates a lot of unwanted / unneeded detritus and clutter — I wish there was some way to turn this feature off — I have to manually select and delete all the cards and tags that it automatically creates which is very tedious

What's great

content organization (12)AI summary (13)

What needs improvement

automatic categorization (1)self-organizing knowledge base (1)

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37 views8mo ago

Recall

Hi Donald, thanks for the feedback - it really means a lot to us.

We are changing how we add connected entities so they will no longer automatically show up in your home page as separated cards unless you explicitly click into one through a connection and save it. I think this change in UX will resolve the feedback that you have given.

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8mo ago

•1 review

Hi Devs, really loving this product so far, it seems very very promising. The AI summary is really very robust. However, just a small and minor request: I would love if there were more color options for the highlighter. I would also love if pdf cards can showcase a thumbnail just like the videos do, because I use way more pdfs and it does get a little difficult to look at the grey squares of pdf on my homepage. Are there any more updates coming in the future? Lovely work guys. Enjoying it a lot.

What's great

AI summary (13)

What needs improvement

color options for highlighter (1)

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7 views11mo ago

Recall

Hello! So sorry for the delay in response.

Highlight Colors - you can pick from these fill color options.
PDF images - Yes! You just import an image into your notebook and select "Make main image"

Don't hesitate to reach out for more feedback! There is alot more coming soon :) Check out our feature request board here.

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10mo ago

•7 reviews

My favorite YouTube companion - any video I watch that I consider relatively good that I might want to revisit, I send to Recall and get a nice summary and a dedicated space to take notes. Too often have I watched a video and lost whatever knowledge I got from it forever, and using Recall I hope to be able to come back to ones I've enjoyed and further develop knowledge from them. There's a lot more you can do with this app, but for this use alone it's great for me.

What's great

content organization (12)AI summary (13)

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17 views5mo ago

•4 reviews

This is the best tool I have discovered since ChatGPT-3. It self-organizes my notes and YouTube summaries, so that I can easily find what I need, either by search, the organized structure or tags. With one-click, I can get YouTube summaries so detailed that I can follow coding instructions directly from the video summary. Recall saves me probably an hour per day, and enhances my learning and productivity.

What's great

time-saving (7)content organization (12)AI summary (13)automatic categorization (4)

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6 views1yr ago

•6 reviews

It's a game-changer!!! Honestly, This is a really handy tool. It’s like having a low-key assistant tidying up all the random stuff I read and watch online. Summaries are quick, accurate enough to trust, and it actually makes it easier to remember things with little quizzes and spaced reminders — which I didn’t realise I needed until I tried it. It’s already earned a spot in my everyday workflow.

What's great

spaced repetition (8)time-saving (7)AI summary (13)

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7 views11mo ago

Recall

Leigh! Thank you so much for your review :) This just made my day. Appreciate the feedback and it is so great to hear that it has made your way into your daily workflow.

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10mo ago

•2 reviews

Recall feels like the AI-powered second brain I didn’t know I desperately needed. It turns passive content into something interactive: summaries, real-time linking, flashcard learning, and a seamless chat experience with your own knowledge—that’s powerful. If they polish the mobile experience and expand browser support, it could become indispensable.

What's great

spaced repetition (8)AI summary (13)chat with knowledge base (4)automatic linking (11)

What needs improvement

mobile experience (3)

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11 views7mo ago

•19 reviews

Been playing around with Recall and honestly feels like a cheat code for studying + side projects. The auto-linking of concepts is wild, I keep stumbling on connections I wouldn’t have noticed on my own. Makes revisiting stuff way less of a chore. Definitely sticking with it for my late-night coding + learning sessions.

What's great

time-saving (7)knowledge graph (9)automatic linking (11)

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4 views6mo ago

•3 reviews

Looks really nice @paul_richards1 . One tip might be to offer a global 'uncheck' box for the bookmark importing, so you don't have to uncheck them all manually if you have lots. That way I can select a few starter bookmarks quickly and easily. But overall, really like the idea and the implementation looks excellent.

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5 views3yr ago