Move your team from Glasp to Liner.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Liner — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Glasp is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both products let users ask questions and get AI-generated answers grounded in source material — Glasp against the user's personal saved highlights, Liner against a live web index with inline citations. Moving from Glasp to Liner: use Liner Search to replace the 'Chat with Highlights' workflow by typing the same questions into Liner's search bar; Liner returns cited answers sourced from the web rather than your personal library, so results are broader but not personalized to your reading history. To replicate Glasp's AI summary of a specific page in Liner, upload the PDF or paste the URL as a file and query it via file-upload analysis. Moving from Liner to Glasp: save key source pages via the Glasp extension, then use 'Chat with Highlights' to query your curated collection — this gives a more personalized lens but loses Liner's real-time web access. For summarizing individual pages, Glasp's one-click AI Summary button in the extension is the direct equivalent of Liner's per-document AI query.
- Warning: Glasp's Chat with Highlights is trained only on the user's personal saved highlights — it will not surface content the user has not already highlighted. Liner Search queries the entire web, so gaps in personal reading history are filled automatically.
- Warning: Liner's Deep Research mode (40 credits per query) provides multi-source synthesis comparable to querying across many highlights; on the Free plan only 10 Research Assistant queries per day are allowed.
- Warning: Glasp supports multiple AI backends (ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral, Gemini) for summarization; Liner uses its own AI with premium external models costing 30 credits each, counted against a monthly credit budget.
Both tools let users process web pages and PDFs for research, but in different ways. In Glasp, install the Chrome/Safari/Edge extension, then select text on any webpage or PDF to highlight it in up to four colors and attach inline notes; highlights sync to your Glasp account automatically. In Liner, upload PDF documents directly in the web app (up to 5 files at once on Pro, 200 MB each on Max/Team) and run AI queries against them. To migrate from Glasp to Liner: export all Glasp highlights as CSV or Markdown from the Glasp web app, then upload the exported files as reference documents in Liner's file-upload interface. To go the other way, download Liner's AI responses with their cited sources, then paste or import the key passages into Glasp as new highlights via the extension. Note that Liner's analysis is query-driven rather than highlight-driven, so users must re-frame their annotation habit as questions to ask against documents.
- Warning: Glasp works live in the browser with no file size restriction mentioned for web pages; Liner's free plan caps uploads at 25 MB per file and one file per question per day — heavy PDF researchers will need Pro or higher.
- Warning: Glasp preserves color-coded highlights with inline notes tied to specific text positions; Liner's analysis does not retain per-sentence annotation metadata, so color-coded review workflows cannot be replicated exactly.
- Warning: Liner file upload is not a browser extension — users must actively upload files rather than annotating in-situ while browsing, changing the capture workflow.
Both products support bringing content created outside the tool into your research workflow. Glasp imports existing highlights from Kindle, Pocket, Medium, Instapaper, Readwise, Hypothesis, and Snipd via the Glasp web app import flows; once imported, those highlights are searchable, taggable, and queryable via AI chat. Liner accepts uploaded files (PDF, and document formats) to analyze alongside web search results. Moving from Glasp to Liner: export your imported highlights from Glasp as Markdown or CSV, then upload those files in Liner's document interface to query them with Liner's AI. Moving from Liner to Glasp: export documents or saved responses from Liner, convert to text if needed, and import via Glasp's supported import channels (Readwise is the most flexible intermediary — Readwise can ingest many formats and syncs directly to Glasp). Readwise acts as a bridge: it is natively supported on both sides and can relay highlights between the two ecosystems.
- Warning: Glasp's import from Kindle, Pocket, and Instapaper is direct and free; Liner has no equivalent native import from those reading apps — users must manually export and re-upload.
- Warning: Liner's file upload on the Free plan is limited to 1 file per question, 25 MB, once per day; large libraries of exported highlights will hit this cap quickly and require a paid plan.
- Warning: Glasp stores imported highlights as first-class objects with tags and spaced-repetition review (Kindle Daily Review); Liner treats uploaded files as ephemeral per-session context and does not retain them as a persistent library.
Both products offer a way to share research with others, but the models differ: Glasp uses an open social graph where highlights are public by default and anyone can follow any user; Liner uses a bounded Team workspace (2–20 seats) with shared billing and centralized access. Moving from Glasp to Liner: identify the colleagues you currently follow on Glasp and invite them to a Liner Team plan; the shared workspace gives all members access to the same AI tools and credit pool. Export your public Glasp highlights (Markdown or CSV) before switching and share the files in the Liner team environment via file upload. Moving from Liner to Glasp: each team member creates a free Glasp account, follows the others, and can now see each other's public highlights and discover content via the community knowledge graph — this is free but lacks the centralized billing and admin controls of Liner's Team plan.
- Warning: Glasp's social sharing is public-by-default; users who need private research sharing must enable Private Highlights per highlight manually. Liner Team workspaces are private and access-controlled from the start.
- Warning: Liner Team plan is priced at $26.99/seat/month (annual) for 2–20 members; Glasp's social layer is free with no seat limit, but there is no managed workspace or centralized admin.
- Warning: Liner Enterprise supports organizations above 20 seats; Glasp has no enterprise tier documented, making large-team deployment on Glasp unverified.
Glasp collects highlights during reading and then exports them (Markdown, CSV, HTML, JSON) or syncs them to Obsidian, Notion, Roam, or Readwise for drafting. Liner Write combines research and drafting in a single editor surface, with a Citation Recommender agent suggesting peer-reviewed sources inline as you type. Moving from Glasp to Liner: instead of exporting highlights to a separate writing tool, open Liner Write and start drafting directly; let the Citation Recommender populate references as you write. For existing Glasp highlights you want to carry over, export them as Markdown from the Glasp web app and upload the file into Liner's file-upload interface as a reference document while drafting. Moving from Liner to Glasp: use the Glasp extension to highlight source pages referenced in your Liner drafts, then export those highlights to Obsidian or Notion and write in those apps. This adds a step relative to Liner's integrated experience.
- Warning: Liner Write and the Citation Recommender are available only on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans — the Liner Free plan does not include the integrated writing editor.
- Warning: Glasp's export integrations (Obsidian, Notion, Roam, Readwise) are already available on the free tier; teams moving to Liner for writing lose free-tier access to the drafting surface.
- Warning: Liner Write targets professional and academic writing with peer-reviewed citation suggestions; Glasp's export-to-Notion/Obsidian path gives more flexible format control but requires a separate writing app.