Genei is an AI research tool that summarises PDFs and web pages and extracts keywords. Plans start at £3.99 per month with a 14 day free trial.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Genei is an AI-powered research and note-taking tool that analyses web pages, documents, and PDF files. Its website describes it as a way to work with more efficiency and clarity, with automatic summaries of background reading that help users produce blogs, articles, and reports faster. It runs as a web app, with a Chrome extension for browsing.
The company is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, was named among TechCrunch's favourite startups of summer 2021, and won a prize at Oxford University's All Innovate 2020 startup competition. Its pages describe use cases in content production, academic writing, and professional writing, and this review relies only on the company's own site.
According to the FAQ, Genei uses natural language processing models to enable abstractive summarisation, entity annotation, semantic search, and question answering. The company says the main advantage of such models is that they consider the context of each word in a document in relation to all others, which it says enables deeper insight into the text.
Users add PDFs or web pages to the web app, organise them into projects, and then run summaries, keyword extraction, or searches. They can ask questions and receive answers drawn from the documents. Higher-priced plans also give access to GPT3 for summaries, search, and question mode.
The FAQ lists three key features: keyword extraction and definition, semantic and query-based search within and across documents, and summarisation of entire documents and sections within them. The pricing page adds AI-generated keywords, graph, figure and table extraction, and, on Pro plans, multi-document analysis and AI-powered expand, paraphrase, and rephrase tools.
Around the AI tools sits a research workspace. Users can organise documents into projects, annotate articles with comments and highlights, tag phrases with custom definitions, make notes, and link content to any part of a document to generate references automatically. Export functionality and in-built citation management are included, and the Chrome extension summarises pages or saves them for later.
Genei is an AI-powered research and note-taking tool that analyses web pages, documents, and PDF files. It offers summarisation, keyword extraction, and semantic search. It is meant to help users read and write with more efficiency.
Professional plans are £9.99 (Basic) and £29.99 (Pro) per month, or £7.99 and £24.99 per month billed annually. Academic plans are £4.99 and £19.99 per month, or £3.99 and £15.99 billed annually.
Yes. Genei offers a 14 day free trial that can be cancelled at any point. The site does not list a permanent free plan.
The FAQ says Genei supports PDF and web content. It handles English-language files only.
No. According to the FAQ, Genei is currently compatible only with desktop devices.
Basic covers summaries, search, notes, annotations, and reference management. Pro adds advanced summarisation, GPT3 rephrasing and paraphrasing, multi-document analysis, AI question answering, and unlimited file size.
Yes. The Chrome extension lets users summarise web pages or save them for later reading while browsing.
Email support@genei.io. Plans also list email and chatbot support, and the site offers a 1-1 walkthrough with a team member.