There is no single best AI news digest tool. A fixed newsletter, a source library, a scheduled research agent, a self-service monitor, and a configured briefing solve different jobs.
The useful question is not which product has the longest feature list. It is who chooses the subject, who manages the sources, how the result arrives, and how much setup you want to own.
Comparison method
Reviewed: September 28, 2026. We compared the public workflow each company documents on its first-party product, help, and pricing pages. We looked at subject control, source control, recurring delivery, setup ownership, and the type of output promised.
We did not run a controlled product test, measure recall or summary accuracy, or score editorial quality. Product access and features can change, so the links below are the evidence for the positioning as reviewed. Summry is our product; its limits and prices come from the current public offer.
Quick comparison
| Product | Best fit | Who defines the subject? | How updates arrive | Setup model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summry Free or Individual | Self-service monitoring of a focused work topic | You | Scheduled, source-linked email digest | You configure the monitor |
| Summry Professional | Configured professional briefing for a recurring intelligence need | You and Summry | Scheduled, source-linked briefing | Jointly configured after a pilot |
| Feedly Market Intelligence | Source-library intelligence and team research | Your team | Feedly workspace and automated newsletters | Your team builds feeds, boards, and templates |
| The Rundown AI | Fixed editorial newsletter about AI | The publisher | Email newsletter | Subscribe |
| TLDR AI | Fixed editorial newsletter for technical AI news | The publisher | Weekday email | Subscribe |
| Perplexity Computer | Scheduled research agent and broader recurring automation | You prompt the agent | Notifications, including email, with a saved task session | You define and manage the task |
1. Summry: focused monitoring by email
Best for: people who know the work topic they need to follow and want a recurring digest rather than another feed to check.
Summry self-service monitoring starts with a subject such as a competitor, supplier, regulation, or industry. You add optional focus, choose a supported schedule, and receive a digest with links to the underlying public sources.
The current self-service offer is:
- Free: €0, with one weekly monitor.
- Individual: €20/month, with up to three monitors delivered weekly or on two or more selected days.
This is self-service monitoring: you own the monitor setup. It is a fit when the question is focused enough to configure directly and a scheduled email is more useful than a live research workspace.
For a recurring intelligence need that requires jointly agreed scope, source coverage, review rules, or several recipients, Summry Professional is a different service rather than a larger self-service plan:
- Professional: €100/month per configured briefing, available after a 14-day pilot with no card required.
The pilot is used to configure and assess the briefing before paid continuation. A request starts a conversation; it does not automatically activate a subscription or briefing.
Choose Summry Free or Individual for a focused monitor you can define yourself. Choose Professional when the recurring question needs a configured professional briefing and an agreed operating scope.
Monitor competitors, markets, and any other topic with scheduled AI digests instead of manually checking sources.
Create one source-backed monitor free2. Feedly Market Intelligence: build an intelligence workspace
Best for: teams that want to collect, organize, analyze, and redistribute intelligence inside a shared platform.
Feedly describes its Market Intelligence product as a workspace using AI Feeds across thousands of sources, company and trend views, AI analysis, and team collaboration. This is broader than the old description of Feedly as only an RSS reader.
Feedly also documents Automated Newsletters that can pull from AI Feeds, Boards, and Folders, add summaries or analyst notes, and send recurring newsletters to stakeholders. Its current Market Intelligence pricing page presents team plans and a trial or expert-led sales path.
The trade-off is ownership. Feedly gives a team tools to create feeds, boards, prompts, and newsletter templates. That control is useful when an analyst wants a working intelligence library and an internal distribution workflow. It is more platform to operate than subscribing to an editorial newsletter or configuring one narrow monitor.
Choose Feedly when building and curating the intelligence system is part of the job.
3. The Rundown AI: a broad daily AI briefing
Best for: general AI awareness with no topic setup.
The Rundown AI says it explains the latest AI news, why it matters, and how to apply it at work in a short daily read. The publisher chooses the agenda and sends the same editorial product to subscribers.
That makes it easy to start and useful for broad awareness. It is not the same workflow as monitoring a private list of competitors, a specific regulation, or a niche supply chain question.
Choose The Rundown AI when you want an editorial view of the general AI market and do not need a custom monitoring brief.
4. TLDR AI: concise technical AI coverage
Best for: engineers, researchers, and technical professionals who want a compact weekday scan.
TLDR AI describes itself as a free daily newsletter covering AI news, research, and tools, sent every weekday with short summaries and source links. TLDR also publishes separate editions for areas such as DevOps, security, product, data, and hardware.
You choose an edition, not a custom brief. That is a feature when you want a quick technical reading habit and do not want to configure anything. It is a limitation when the subject only matters to your company or role.
Choose TLDR AI when a publisher-defined technical edition matches the field you want to scan.
5. Perplexity Computer: recurring agent tasks
Best for: people who want a flexible agent to run recurring research or connected workflows.
Perplexity's current documentation says Scheduled Tasks in Computer can run monitoring, reports, alerts, and briefings in the background. You describe the work in natural language, confirm a recurring schedule, and can receive notifications by email, push, web, or in the app. Results remain in the task session. The same documentation says runs use credits and access depends on Computer availability and plan allowances.
This is no longer accurately described as purely pull-based search. It is a scheduled research agent: flexible enough to combine research with connected services and other actions. In return, you own the prompt, schedule, connector permissions, credit use, and task maintenance.
Choose Perplexity Computer when the job is an adaptable recurring agent workflow, not only a stable news digest.
Which AI news digest tool should you choose?
Start with the operating model:
- Want a ready-made AI newsletter? Pick The Rundown AI for broad applied coverage or TLDR AI for a denser technical scan.
- Want analysts to build a shared intelligence library and stakeholder newsletters? Evaluate Feedly Market Intelligence.
- Want a flexible recurring agent that can research and use connected tools? Evaluate Perplexity Computer Scheduled Tasks.
- Want to define one focused topic and receive source-linked updates by email? Start with Summry Free; choose Individual for up to three monitors and a multi-day schedule.
- Want a recurring intelligence brief configured around a professional need? Use the Summry Professional pilot to agree the scope before deciding on paid continuation.
Do not compare these products on an invented universal score. Decide whether you need an editorial publication, an analyst workspace, an agent you operate, a self-service monitor, or a configured service. That choice removes most of the false equivalence.
Monitor competitors, markets, and any other topic with scheduled AI digests instead of manually checking sources.
Discuss a configured Professional briefing