An app that turns your saved articles, videos and podcasts into a short AI digest
Yes, there is an app for this. Compendro is a read-later app that sends you a digest: a short newsletter with a selection of the articles, videos and podcasts you saved, each with an AI summary. You choose when and how often it arrives, and you read it in your inbox, in the web app, or in the mobile app. This page explains how the Compendro digest works, what it costs, and how it compares with three other apps that send a digest.
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How the Compendro digest works
Saving is the easy part. The digest is the part that brings your saves back to you, so a backlog turns into things you actually get through.
Save from anywhere
Save an article, a video or a podcast in one tap with the browser extension for Chrome or Firefox, or with the share sheet on iPhone and Android. All three go into the same queue.
Compendro adds an AI summary
Every save gets an AI summary, tags and a category. For videos and podcasts, Compendro first creates a transcript, then writes the summary from that transcript. It transcribes videos and podcasts up to 2 hours long.
Choose when the digest arrives
Pick how often your digest comes: daily, every 2 to 7 days, weekly, every two weeks, or monthly, at a time you set. The default is weekly.
Read it where you like
Each digest brings back a selection of things you saved, with the summary of each one. Read it in your email inbox, in the Compendro web app, or in the iOS and Android app.
Decide in seconds
The summary helps you decide whether to read, watch or listen to an item, or drop it from your queue, without opening the original. Summaries are AI-generated: use them to decide, not as a replacement for the source.
Finish something with Quick Pick
Got ten minutes? Tell Quick Pick, and it suggests saved articles, videos and podcasts that take about that long or less, one card at a time. Swipe left to skip, right to read.
What it costs
Compendro is a paid app: 59 euros per year, or 149 euros once for Lifetime. Both plans have a 14-day money-back guarantee. Compare the plans on the pricing page.
Other apps that send a digest, compared
Compendro is not the only app with a digest. These three come up most often for this question. Each one does a different job, so the right pick depends on what you want the digest to bring you.
Compendro
Best for: A digest of the things you chose to save
A read-later app built around the digest. You save articles, videos and podcasts, Compendro summarizes each one, and the digest brings a selection back to you as often as you choose.
- Digest of
- Articles, videos and podcasts you saved
- How often
- Daily, every 2 to 7 days, weekly, every two weeks, or monthly, at a time you set (weekly by default)
- Read it in
- Email, the web app, and the iOS and Android apps
- AI summaries
- An AI summary for every save, with transcripts for videos and podcasts up to 2 hours long
- Price
- 59 euros per year, or 149 euros once for Lifetime, with a 14-day money-back guarantee
Readwise Reader
Best for: Heavy readers who highlight and also follow feeds
Reader is a full reading app built around highlighting and notes. Its Daily Digest collects an assortment of documents from your Feed and your Saved for Later, to help you triage your feed and find documents you might have forgotten. Ghostreader, its AI assistant, can summarize the documents you save.
- Digest of
- Documents from your Feed and your Saved for Later
- How often
- A new Daily Digest each day; you can turn it and its emails off
- Read it in
- Top of Home in the mobile app, a Home section on the web, and email
- AI summaries
- Ghostreader summarizes documents you save; Feed documents are summarized automatically only with your own OpenAI API key
- Price
- About $120 / year ($9.99 / month billed annually) or $12.99 / month, with a 30-day free trial
Mailist
Best for: A free weekly email of unread bookmarks
Mailist is a bookmarking web app with Chrome and Firefox extensions. Once a week it emails you a random selection of unread links from your list. You choose how many links each email has and the day it arrives. It has no native mobile app; its FAQ suggests a bookmarklet or a home-screen shortcut on phones.
- Digest of
- A random selection of unread links from your list
- How often
- Weekly, on the day you choose (sent at 13:00 UTC)
- Read it in
- AI summaries
- AI summaries in the newsletter with Mailist AI; the free plan has 10 summary credits per month
- Price
- Free plan with up to 500 unread links; Mailist AI is $9 / month
Summate
Best for: A summary of newsletters, channels and blogs you follow
Summate is an AI digest for content you follow, not for things you saved. You forward newsletters to a personal Summate inbox and add YouTube channels and RSS feeds. Before each digest, its AI summarizes the new content, and you can give it your own instructions. Its Chrome extension can summarize a page and save it to your digest, but the extension page says extension support is temporarily paused.
- Digest of
- New content from newsletters, YouTube channels and RSS feeds you follow
- How often
- Daily, weekly or monthly, at a time you choose
- Read it in
- Email and the Summate web reader
- AI summaries
- An AI summary of each item, shaped by your own instructions
- Price
- Beta pricing of $10 / month billed yearly, with 2,000 AI credits per month and a 14-day free trial
Which digest app should you pick?
| If you | Pick |
|---|---|
| Want the things you saved to come back as a short summary digest | Compendro |
| Highlight a lot and want one digest across your saves and your feeds | Readwise Reader |
| Want a free weekly email of random unread bookmarks | Mailist |
| Want summaries of newsletters, YouTube channels and blogs you follow | Summate |
Where Compendro fits, honestly
Readwise Reader is the richer reading app, Mailist is free, and Summate covers newsletters and feeds you follow. Compendro does a narrower job: it brings back the articles, videos and podcasts you chose to save, with a summary for each, so you can read them or let them go.
- Your own saves, not a feed: articles, videos and podcasts in one queue
- An AI summary for every save, and transcripts for videos and podcasts
- A digest by email or in the app, as often as you choose, from daily to monthly
- Quick Pick: got ten minutes? Finish something you saved
- A one-time Lifetime option and an EU-based team
Frequently asked questions
Is there an app that sends me an AI summary digest of the articles I save?
Yes. Compendro is a read-later app that sends you a digest with a selection of your saved articles, videos and podcasts, each with an AI summary. You choose how often it arrives, from daily to monthly, and read it by email, in the web app, or in the iOS and Android app.
How often does the Compendro digest arrive?
As often as you choose: daily, every 2 to 7 days, weekly, every two weeks, or monthly, at a time you set. The default is weekly.
Does the digest include videos and podcasts?
Yes. Videos and podcasts are saves like articles. Compendro creates a transcript first, then writes the summary from it, for videos and podcasts up to 2 hours long.
Can I get the digest by email?
Yes. You can read your digest in your email inbox, in the Compendro web app, or in the iOS and Android app.
Can the AI summary replace the original article?
No. The summaries are AI-generated reading aids. They help you decide whether to read, watch or listen to an item, or drop it from your queue. Open the original for the full content.
How is this different from the Readwise Reader Daily Digest?
The Reader Daily Digest collects documents from your Feed and your Saved for Later, inside a full reading app built around highlights and notes. The Compendro digest is built from what you saved, and you choose how often it arrives.
Is there a free app that emails my saved links?
Mailist has a free plan with a weekly email of unread links. Compendro is a paid app: 59 euros per year, or 149 euros once for Lifetime, with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Get your saves back as a short AI digest
Compendro is 59 euros per year, or 149 euros once with the Lifetime plan, both with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
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