Summarizer

What is a summary?

A summary condenses a longer text into its essential points, without the supporting detail, examples and repetition. A good summary is shorter than the original, stands alone (a reader who has not seen the source understands it), and is neutral — it reports the source's ideas rather than your opinion of them.

How the summarizer works

The tool sends your text to an AI model with instructions to write a concise, neutral summary of about one third of the original length, keeping the key points, main arguments and important facts. You receive a single condensed version. This is useful for quickly digesting long documents, preparing study notes, or getting the gist of an article before reading it fully.

Extractive vs abstractive summarising

Older tools used extractive summarising: they picked the sentences that looked most important and stitched them together. The result can read awkwardly and repeat content. This tool uses abstractive summarising: the model reads the whole text and writes new sentences that capture the key information. Abstractive summaries are shorter, smoother, and closer to how a human summarises.

How to write a good summary by hand

1. Read the whole text once, then identify the main claim of each paragraph.
2. Drop examples, anecdotes, statistics that support but do not define the point, and any repetition.
3. Express each key point in one sentence of your own words.
4. Order the points to match the original's logic, then trim until only essentials remain.
5. Check that the summary mentions who or what the text was about, so it stands alone.

Summarising vs paraphrasing

Summarising condenses a long text into its key points. Paraphrasing restates a passage at roughly the same length in new words. Use the paraphrasing tool when you want a different wording of the same content, and this summarizer when you want a condensed version.

Frequently asked questions

Is the summarizer really free? Yes. It is free and requires no sign-up. The free AI tier has a daily limit, which resets each day.

How long can my text be? The tool accepts up to 5,000 characters per request. For longer documents, summarise section by section.

Will the summary include numbers and names? It is instructed to keep the key facts, including numbers and proper nouns. Always spot-check the output for critical figures.

Is my text stored or used for training? No. Your text is sent to the AI service to generate the summary and is not stored or used for training. This is the only way your text is transmitted.

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