Skiml
A browser extension that turns the articles, videos and PDFs you save 'for later' into a 60-second summary with the key takeaways, so your reading list actually gets read instead of piling up forever.
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Description
Almost everyone who saves articles, YouTube videos or PDFs to read "later" ends up with a backlog of hundreds of unread items they'll never get to. Skiml attacks that specific problem: click its browser button on anything you save, and within seconds it hands back a short brief — a few sentences on what the piece says, the key insights, and any concrete action items — so you can decide in ten seconds whether it's worth your full attention, instead of leaving it to rot in a bookmarks folder.
Skiml is a browser extension for Chrome, Arc, Brave and Edge that works across articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, podcasts, tweets and newsletters. Each saved item gets an AI-generated action brief (summary, key insights, action items, follow-up questions), stored in a searchable, tag-organized library, and a "triage mode" presents your backlog as a card-stack you swipe through quickly. A daily or weekly digest email surfaces items ranked by relevance so you don't have to open the app to stay on top of your queue. Content is processed in the cloud (it leaves the browser for AI summarization), and Skiml states it does not train on or sell saved content. It positions itself explicitly as a replacement for Pocket, which shut down in 2025, competing with Readwise Reader and Raindrop.io.
💬 Our review
The short version: if your actual problem is a graveyard of hundreds of unread saved articles rather than needing a place to save them, Skiml is a smart, cheap fix — the free tier alone (50 saves/month) is enough to test whether the triage workflow clicks for you.
What differentiates Skiml from a plain read-later app like Pocket or Instapaper is that it doesn't just store content, it actively summarizes and triages it, which is the step most people skip and why their backlog never shrinks. Readwise Reader does something similar but leans more toward highlight-and-annotate for deep readers, while Raindrop.io is closer to a pure bookmarking tool without AI briefs. Skiml's honest weak point is that your saved content is sent to the cloud for AI processing — a dealbreaker if you're saving anything sensitive — and the free tier's weekly-only digest limits how useful it is until you upgrade. At $6/month, Pro is inexpensive next to Readwise Reader's roughly $8-10/month, and the one-time $149 lifetime deal (while the 100 seats last) is a good bet if you're confident the habit sticks.
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🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit (50 sauvegardes/mois, digest hebdo), Pro 6$/mois ou 72$/an (illimité, digest quotidien), Lifetime 149$ à vie (places limitées à 100).
Pros
Résumé automatique en brief actionnable de 60 secondes
Fonctionne sur articles, vidéos YouTube, PDF, podcasts et newsletters
Mode triage en pile de cartes pour vider rapidement le backlog
Digest quotidien classé par pertinence (palier Pro)
Cons
Le contenu sauvegardé part dans le cloud pour être traité par l'IA
Palier gratuit limité à un digest hebdomadaire seulement
Places du plan Lifetime limitées à 100