SpanSearch vs Muse
Muse turns a research run into a report or a slide draft. You say what to change and what to keep, then export. SpanSearch puts the result in editors that are already there: the sentence, the picture, the map, and the board.
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Both can do the research. They split on what you do with the result.
Muse produces a report, or a slide draft you can still change. The next change is usually another instruction, or an export. SpanSearch has editors for text, images, vectors, mind maps, and whiteboards. The result stays in them.
The report stays in the text editor, citation beside the sentence. Pictures go to the image or vector editor. Structure goes to the mind map. Steps and relationships go to the whiteboard. You are editing the copy in front of you.
A Muse report can list references. You still check them before you send it. In SpanSearch a key claim points at the passage. Open it, read it, keep the line or drop it.
Muse searches the public web and uses files you give it, plus connections you have already authorized. Before SpanSearch starts, you set the range: built-in sources, a saved group, or a site connected in the browser, including pages you are logged into. No MCP server to build, and no password to hand over.
Once the run is over, you keep going on the kind of result you have.
No second app, and no follow-up note that says what to change and what to keep.
Topics, branches, and levels move on the map. You are editing that map.
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A flow, an architecture, who connects to whom: move the boxes and arrows on the board. Muse usually folds that into slides. Here it stays on the board.
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Illustrations are edited in the image editor. If it has to stay sharp when enlarged, make it a vector and adjust the shapes and type.
Get started for free| Feature | SpanSearch | Muse |
|---|---|---|
| Afterward | Keep editing in the text, image, vector, map, and whiteboard editors. | A report or a slide draft. The next change is another instruction, or an export. |
| Editors | Separate editors for text, images, vectors, maps, and whiteboards. | You work on the generated draft. This set of editors is not there. |
| What you get | A report you can keep editing, plus a map, a board, or a picture from the same run. | A structured report, or a slide draft you can still adjust. |
| Sources | Built-in sources, a group you saved, and sites you connect, including pages behind a login. | The public web, files you provide, and connections you authorized. |
| Citations | The claim points at the passage and stays beside the sentence in the editor. | A report can list references. You still check each line. |
| Fits when | You still have to finish the result in an editor. | This run should end as a draft. |
If the thing you owe someone is a draft, use Muse.
If the result still has to be finished in an editor, use SpanSearch.
Start with a question. The report stays in the text, image, map, and whiteboard editors.
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