Glarity vs Kome
Glarity is a free, ad-free summarizer extension (Chrome/Edge/Safari/Firefox/Opera): summaries for YouTube, Google results, webpages, PDFs and Gmail threads, plus side-by-side translation in 90+ languages; free tier with daily limits, Premium reported between $4.99/month and $12.49/month billed annually depending on source and region, so confirm on the official site (checked Oct 2026). Kome (Summarize with Kome) summarizes articles, news, YouTube, PDFs and X threads from the active tab and adds a self-organizing bookmark manager plus Smart Compose for drafting from saved clips; free plan with 5 summary credits, Premium $5.99/month with 200 credits (verified Aug 2026). Pick Glarity for translation-heavy reading across languages; pick Kome if you also want bookmarks and draft-from-clips in the same extension. No hands-on test was run; no winner declared.
| Decision point | Glarity | Kome |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Summarizing videos and webpages and translating pages in the browser | Not verified |
| Plans and cost | The homepage presents Glarity as free and ad-free, with no dollar price shown on the page visited. | Not verified |
| Limitations | ['The homepage retrieved is very short, with little detail on setup, limits, or data handling', 'Underlying model access may require a key or account, which the short homepage does not fully explain', 'Summary quality across languages and video types was not independently tested here'] | Not verified |
Use the same input
You read dozens of English articles and YouTube videos daily and want one-click summaries, plus frequent side-by-side Chinese-English reading.
What a successful result must preserve
Compare by summary coverage (content types), translation ability, bookmark/collection management, free-tier allowances and pricing.
Evidence and test status
Pricing and feature comparison based on publicly available information. Plan prices, allowances and feature claims below come from the two vendors' official pricing and feature pages plus recent third-party pricing reads, re-checked October 2026. We did not run a hands-on test on either tool; no quality winner is declared.
- Glarity — Glarity homepage ↗ (reviewed 2026-11-01)
- Kome — Imported listing. Official details have not been verified.