A free text summarizer that shortens any text to its main points, as a line, a paragraph or key points, two summaries at once.
Paste your text, pick how long the summary should be and a language, and I'll write two summaries at once. Each one shows its length next to your original.
Your text
Separate them with commas. Names, product names and terms stay exactly as you write them.
Your summaries
Type your text and press Summarize, and the results show up here.
A text summarizer turns a long text into a short one that keeps only the main points.
This free text summarizer writes two summaries at once, as a few sentences, one paragraph, key points or a single line, in the language you pick.
Each summary shows how long it is next to your original, so you know how much it cut.
TL;DRKey takeaways
What is a text summarizer?
A text summarizer is a tool that shortens a text to its main points in new words.
Purdue's writing lab says a summary includes "only the main point(s)" and is "significantly shorter than the original".
How to summarize a text
The lengths
Pick the one that fits where it's going:
| Length | What you get |
|---|---|
| One line | A single sentence, the takeaway |
| Short | 2 or 3 sentences |
| One paragraph | A full paragraph |
| Key points | A list, one point a line |
| Detailed | About a third as long as the text |
Every summary keeps the facts and numbers it uses as the text gives them.
How each version is scored
Every version is checked in your browser the moment it comes back, with no AI:
- Length – how long it is next to your original, as a percentage.
- Reads human – the engine behind my AI slop checker, which counts the patterns that give AI writing away.
- Real-post numbers – pick what you're writing, and its sentence length and reading grade show next to real blog posts, newsletters or LinkedIn and X posts I measured.
So you can pick the version that reads like a person and fits where it's going.
A real example
Here's the article from the Try button, 129 words on how remote work changed hiring. The first summary it wrote, at the Short length:
Remote work reshaped hiring after 2020, expanding recruitment from local areas to nationwide and even global talent pools, giving people in smaller towns access to jobs that previously required relocation.
This shift also introduced challenges such as coordinating across time zones, reduced on-the-job learning for new hires, and difficulties for managers in assessing unseen work.
As a result, many firms now adopt hybrid models, combining office days with remote work.
It came out at 56% of the original's length and scored 100 for reading human. For a tighter version, pick One line or Key points.
Summarize or paraphrase?
They're easy to mix up, so here's how they differ:
- Length
- Much shorter
- What changes
- Only the main points stay
- Length
- About the same
- What changes
- The words and the sentences
- Length
- About the same
- What changes
- The wording, to read clearer
To keep every point in new words, use the paraphrasing tool. To make a paragraph clearer, the paragraph rewriter.
Summarizing videos and podcasts
This one takes text. For a video or a podcast, my YouTube video summarizer and podcast summarizer read the transcript and summarize it with timestamps.
Who is the text summarizer for?
It's for anyone with more to read than time:
- YouTube video summarizer – anyone who'd rather read a video than watch it
- Podcast summarizer – anyone catching up on a long episode
- Paraphrasing tool – anyone who wants the whole text in new words
- Grammar checker – anyone checking the summary before they share it
And if you write long posts, a one-line summary makes a good opening line.
Text summarizer FAQs
Questions about the text summarizer? Here's what to know.
A text summarizer is a tool that shortens a text to its main points, in new words.
Yes, it's free with no sign-up.
Each person can summarize 20 times a day.
Up to 2,000 words at a time.
For a longer text, summarize it in parts, then summarize the summaries.
Pick Key points, and the summary comes back as a list.
Yes, press Download all to save every summary as one text file.
Copy takes just the one you're reading.
Yes, paste the text of up to 2,000 words at a time, such as the abstract or one section.
Cite the paper when you use the summary.
This one takes text.
For a video, use the YouTube video summarizer, which reads the transcript for you.
Yes, when it's someone else's work.
Purdue's writing lab says summaries still need to be attributed to the source.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the text summarizer as one of my free tools on navid.me.
You can read more about me.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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