Long text in, key points out.
Paste a long article, report or transcript and get the key sentences in seconds. Free online text summarizer.
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What people say
4.534
Real reviews from people who use the service. Emails are partly hidden, and reviews are shown in the language they were written in.
I skim about ten papers a week. Pasting the abstract and discussion here tells me in seconds whether it's worth a full read. It keeps the author's actual claims instead of generalizing them away.
Our meeting transcripts run 5,000+ words. The summary is short enough that people actually read it, which was never true of the raw notes.
The free mode is genuinely useful, not a teaser. I use it every day for lecture transcripts and I've never hit a wall.
I curate a links newsletter. Summarizing each article down to two sentences used to be the whole job; now it's the fast part.
I skim long papers with it first. It does not swap out the original terminology.
For me, I skim long papers with it first.
I use it to condense meeting notes. Tables and lists survive intact.
In my experience, I skim long papers with it first. The bullets are usable straight away.
For me, I use it to condense meeting notes. The bullets are usable straight away.
How a long document becomes one paragraph.
Paste the long text
Meeting notes, a paper, a lecture transcript, a full article — whatever you don't have time to read.
Pick the key sentences
The free summary keeps the most important sentences in their original order, so you can see what was left out.
Get a readable summary
AI mode rewrites the picked content into new sentences you can drop straight into a report.
Turning the summary into something you can hand in.
Check the summary fits the limit — characters, words and bytes.
If the summary kept the source's wording, put it in your own.
Record the source you summarized as a proper reference.
Handing the summary in as is? Give the spelling and grammar a final check.
Questions people ask.
- Is the summarizer free?
- Yes. Sign in with Google and run the free summary — it's rule-based and doesn't use any credits.
- How does it work?
- It scores every sentence and keeps the most informative ones in their original order.
Start with the thing you don't have time to read.
Key-sentence extraction is free after sign-in. Use a credit only when you need a newly written summary.