Shorty vs Recall
Recall is a place to keep what you read, with 10 AI summaries a month on its free plan. Shorty summarizes with no account at all, and also transcribes files, generates subtitles and converts files.
What Recall is: An AI knowledge base that saves articles, YouTube videos, podcasts and PDFs, then summarizes and links them. Everything in the Recall column below was read from www.getrecall.ai on 21 October 2026. A dash (“—”) means we could not verify that detail there — it is not a claim that the feature is missing.
Recall's prices were read from www.getrecall.ai/pricing the same day, in US dollars, and can change at any time.
Side by side
The two differ on 8 of the 10 points we checked, marked below: Primary focus, Sources it summarizes, Transcription, Languages stated, Free tier, Paid plans from, Platforms, Public developer API.
| Feature | Shorty | Recall |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focusdiffers | Multi-source summarizer + transcription + file tools | Personal AI knowledge base |
| Sources it summarizesdiffers | YouTube, Spotify, webpages, articles, PDF, Word, audio, text | Articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, PDFs |
| Transcriptiondiffers | Yes — uploaded audio and video files, and live recording | YouTube transcript generator |
| Subtitle / caption generation | Yes — SRT, VTT, and captions burned into the video | — |
| File conversion / compression | Yes — audio, video, image and PDF | — |
| Languages stateddiffers | 113, with automatic detection | Multi-language support (paid plans) |
| Free tierdiffers | Summarize with no account at all; a free account adds a daily cloud-conversion quota | 10 AI summaries a month, no card |
| Paid plans fromdiffers | Premium and Pro — live prices on the Shorty pricing page | $10/month billed yearly |
| Platformsdiffers | Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Chrome/Edge/Firefox extensions | Web, Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Safari extensions, iOS, Android |
| Public developer APIdiffers | Yes — REST /v1, a TypeScript SDK, and an OAuth 2.1 MCP server | API and MCP access, on the free plan |
Comparing more than one tool? See Shorty next to every AI summarizer we track.