Data month 2026-09

Skimr

Education & Research

AI Tutoring AI Document / PDF

Premium Academic Assistant with Sage UI.

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According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, the Chrome extension Skimr has 37 users (+32.1% MoM) — ranked #6,068 of 9,324 AI browser extensions, and #446 of 676 in Education & Research.

Users · 2026-09

37+32.1%

Rating

Overall Rank (9,324)

#6,068

Education & Research Rank

#446/ 676

What is Skimr

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Premium Academic Assistant with Sage UI. Free Chrome extension that turns any article or PDF into Cliff Notes, AI flashcards, and a 4-question recall quiz, in seconds.

Built for students, researchers, and serious readers who want to read less and remember more. Skimr runs locally in your browser. No account, no API keys, no tracking.

WHY ACTIVE RECALL? The biggest meta-analysis on study strategies found that highlighting and re-reading have near-zero effect on long-term retention. The methods that actually work — testing yourself and spaced practice — have always been hard because someone has to write the questions. Skimr removes that friction.

WHAT SKIMR DOES:

AI Cliff Notes — get the core takeaways from any article, paper, or PDF in 5 seconds
Auto-generated flashcards — ready to study, no manual deck building
4-question recall quiz — find your gaps before the exam does
Custom AI Q&A — ask anything about the page, grounded in the actual content
Vault — save summaries locally on your device
Markdown / PDF export — works with Anki, Obsidian, Notion, NotebookLM

WHO USES SKIMR:

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Undergraduate and graduate students processing course readings
PhD students and researchers running through dozens of papers a week
Pre-med and law students who need to retain dense material
ESL learners reading academic text in a second language
Knowledge workers and PKM users who want frictionless capture

PRIVACY: Skimr runs locally on your device. No account creation. No data sent to ad networks. No training-data risk. Your reading stays yours.

100% free, forever.

Built by Anu Tewari, a mechanical engineer (ex-Rivian, ex-Volkswagen) who got tired of nodding along to articles and forgetting them by the next week. Reach me at skimr.app or @SkimrApp on X.

Skimr is an Anki alternative for active recall, an AI PDF summarizer, an AI study tool for college and graduate students, an AI flashcard generator, and a free Chrome extension for retrieval practice.