genei
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveSummarises PDFs and web articles into a searchable research library
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
Billed in GBP only: professional Basic £9.99 and PRO £29.99 per month, academic tiers £4.99 and £19.99 (lower when billed yearly); every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and there is no permanent free plan.
Use tool ↗About genei
genei imports PDFs, links and documents into projects, produces summaries and keyword extractions for each source, and answers questions across the collection. It keeps annotations and generates references so material can be cited in a write-up, and a browser extension pulls pages in while you read. The vendor sells separate academic and professional price tiers in pounds sterling.
- Platforms
- Web · Chrome extension
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: professional Basic £9.99/mo and PRO £29.99/mo, academic Basic £4.99/mo and Pro £19.99/mo, 14-day free trial; no USD prices (15 October 2026)genei.io ↗
- Home page unchanged, Webflow stamp "Last Published: Sat Jan 06 2024"; banner points to sister product CoLoop; app.genei.io still answers 200 (15 October 2026)genei.io ↗
Is genei legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 30, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Genei Ltd, United KingdomOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of genei
The app still loads and still takes payment, but the marketing site has not been republished since January 2024 and it is still selling GPT-3 as a headline feature - the team's attention clearly moved to their sister product CoLoop. Only worth a look if the GBP academic tier undercuts everything else for you; otherwise Elicit, SciSpace or NotebookLM are actively maintained and free to start.
Pros
- Academic pricing starts well below most research assistants
- Project structure with annotations and reference export is well suited to writing up
- Cross-document question answering rather than one-PDF-at-a-time
- Browser extension captures sources without leaving the page
Cons
- Site content and copyright notice are years stale, and GPT-3 is still the advertised model
- No free tier, only a trial that requires a card
- No API and no mobile app
- Priced in GBP, so USD buyers absorb the exchange rate
Best for
- Students on the discounted academic tier doing literature triage
- Anyone who wants summaries plus auto-generated references in one place
- Reading-heavy workflows where a browser extension to capture sources matters
Not for
- Work that depends on current-generation model quality
- Anyone who needs an actively supported vendor with a roadmap
Watch out: Treat this as a product in maintenance mode - subscribe monthly rather than annually until you have confirmed support is still responsive.
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