Alternatives to Liner
Browser extension for highlighting, bookmarking and AI-summarizing webpages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Liner
Browser extension for highlighting, bookmarking and AI-summarizing webpages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Liner.
Hypothesis
Highlights and annotates any web page or PDF, privately or in a group.
Hypothesis is free and open source under BSD-2-Clause and supports private, group and public annotation layers, but has no bookmarking or AI summaries and needs an account.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Liner as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Diigo
A web annotation and bookmarking service with a browser extension for highlighting, tagging and saving pages.
Liner combines highlighting, bookmarking and AI summaries of pages, PDFs and videos, with AI features processed in the cloud and likely limited on the free tier.
Glasp
A browser extension and mobile app for highlighting text on web pages and PDFs and collecting notes.
Liner combines highlighting with bookmarking and AI summaries of pages, PDFs and videos, on a freemium plan that relies on cloud processing, and offers no mobile apps listed.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Raindrop.io
Bookmark manager with collections, tags, full-text search and previews.
Evernote Web Clipper
Clips articles, screenshots and PDFs into an Evernote notebook.
Notion Web Clipper
Saves web pages into a Notion database with one click.
WebScrapBook
Captures web pages into an organised, annotatable local archive.
Reader Mode
Browser extension that strips clutter for distraction-free reading.
Sider
AI sidebar for the browser that summarizes pages and chats with several AI models.
