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Savedly vs Glasp
Glasp is built as a social highlighter focusing on personal knowledge from highlights. Savedly is an open-source AI second brain where you save anything and find it via hybrid search. Here&aposs how they compare.
| Feature | Savedly | Glasp |
|---|---|---|
| Core Capabilities | ||
| Core Idea | AI second brain | Personal knowledge from highlights |
| What they save | Links, images, notes, videos, PDFs, screenshots | Web, PDFs, YouTube, Kindle |
| Auto-organization | Yes (Auto-tagging & embeddings) | Tags |
| AI / Semantic Search | Yes (Hybrid + Ask Assistant) | Yes |
| WhatsApp / Chat Capture | Adding Soon | No |
| App Features | ||
| Secure Vault | Yes (Secure Vault) | No |
| Public Sharing | Yes (Public links) | Yes (Social) |
| Knowledge Graph View | Yes (Visual knowledge graph) | No |
| Platform & Privacy | ||
| Open Source | Yes (AGPL-3.0) | No (Proprietary) |
| Self-Hostable | Yes (Docker) | No |
| Pricing Model | Free (Self-Host) or Cloud | Free |
Pick Savedly if
- • You want a private, secure vault for your memories rather than a social network
- • You need to save files and notes, not just web highlights
Pick Glasp if
- • You want to see what other people are highlighting on the same article
- • You want a social feed of knowledge
Why Choose Savedly Over Glasp
Savedly is a private, encrypted-at-rest second brain where you own your data.
Where Glasp Excels
Glasp is essentially a social network for readers and highlight-sharers.
We&aposre just getting started
While Glasp has been around longer, Savedly is shipping rapidly. We are actively working on native iOS/Android apps, WhatsApp capture bots, deep browser integrations, and fully local LLM support.
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