Search+ vs Recall
Recall is a personal knowledge base: you save articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, PDFs and notes, and it summarizes them, links related items in a knowledge graph and lets you chat with your library or the internet. Search+ is project-shaped: a workspace of documents with standing instructions, where answers come only from those documents and cite the excerpt. Choose Recall to collect and revisit everything you read. Choose Search+ to work through a defined set of documents for a project.
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At a glance
| Search+ | Recall | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A web app for asking questions across document workspaces, with cited answers | Save and summarize articles, videos, podcasts, PDFs and notes |
| Chat | Answers only from the documents in your workspace | Chat with your knowledge, the internet, or both |
| Organization | Workspaces per project, with saved conversations | Automatic knowledge graph; quizzes and spaced repetition |
| Developers | Cited answers in chat; no export, API or add-on tools | API and MCP access |
| Pricing | Create an account without payment details; plans on searchplus.ai | Free; Plus $10 a month yearly; Max $38 a month yearly |
How Search+ and Recall differ
Recall collects many kinds of content
Recall saves YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, PDFs and notes into one library. Search+ is built for document files inside project workspaces.
Search+ answers only from your documents
Recall can chat with your knowledge, the internet or both. Search+ answers only from the documents in the workspace and cites the excerpt behind each claim, which matters when an answer must be defensible.
Recall is built for remembering; Search+ for a project
Recall links related content automatically in a knowledge graph and offers quizzes with spaced repetition. Search+ has no knowledge graph or study features; it keeps a project's PDFs, instructions and conversations together.
Recall has an API and MCP
Recall offers API and MCP access. Search+ has no public API or integrations today.
Search+ vs Recall, feature by feature
Checked against public pages on October 11, 2026. "Not covered here" means the pages we checked do not say; it is not a claim that the feature is missing.
| Topic | Search+ | Recall |
|---|---|---|
| Files | PDF, Word and Excel files; OCR for scanned pages; up to 5 GB per file | Articles, videos, podcasts, PDFs, notes |
| Citations | Inline citations; open one to read the supporting excerpt | Not covered here |
| Question scope | Whole workspace or one document | Your library, the web, or both |
| Standing instructions | Workspace Context, applied to every question | Not covered here |
| Saved work | Workspaces and conversation history are saved | A lifelong library |
| Sharing and teams | Team plan available | Not covered here |
| Export and outputs | No export | Not covered here |
| Where it runs | Browser only | Browser extensions and downloads; API, MCP |
| Price | See current plans on searchplus.ai | Free; Plus $10; Max $38 a month yearly |
As of 2026-10-11
Sources: Recall pricing
Pricing
Recall prices as of October 2026, from recall.it/pricing, which also offers a 30-day refund. For Search+ plans, see the pricing section on the Search+ homepage.
| Product | Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recall | Free | $0 per month | 10 AI summaries a month |
| Recall | Plus | $10 billed yearly, or $12 monthly per month | Unlimited AI summaries; chat |
| Recall | Max | $38 billed yearly, or $48 monthly per month | Model choice and bulk actions |
Prices as of 2026-10
About each product
Search+
Search+ is a web app for working with documents. You create a workspace for each project, upload PDF, Word and Excel files, and ask questions across every document or narrow a question to one. Answers come with inline citations; open one to read the excerpt behind it. Workspace Context holds standing instructions that apply to every question, and workspaces and conversations are saved so you can pick up where you left off.
Recall
Recall is a personal AI knowledge base. You save articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, PDFs and notes; Recall summarizes and tags them, links related items in a knowledge graph, and lets you chat with your library, the web or both. It offers quizzes, API and MCP access, and a 30-day refund. Recall says it is used by more than 700,000 learners.
Which one fits your work
Choose Search+ when
- You have a defined set of PDFs for one project
- Answers must come only from those documents
- You want standing rules applied to every question
- You want to open each citation and read the excerpt
Choose Recall when
- You want to save everything you read and watch in one library
- You learn from videos and podcasts as well as PDFs
- You want quizzes and spaced repetition
- You want API or MCP access to your knowledge
How to try both on the same documents
- Keep Recall for the reading you collect.
- When a project needs a fixed document set, export those PDFs.
- Upload them to a Search+ workspace.
- Write the project's reading rules in Workspace Context.
- Ask your project questions and check the citations.
Questions about Search+ and Recall
Is Recall a document workspace?
Can Search+ answer from the web?
How much does Recall cost?
Does Search+ have an API or MCP?
Sources
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Checked 2026-10-11
Give each project its own workspace
Upload the documents for one project and ask across them with cited answers.
Start a workspace