About the AI Summarizer
AI Summarizer turns a long piece of text into a shorter one that keeps the main points. Paste an article, email thread, meeting notes or report, choose Short (two or three sentences), Key points (a bulleted list) or Detailed (one full paragraph), and press Summarise. It reads and answers in the same language as your text, and the tool shows how many words you started with and how many the summary has. The text is sent to our AI service to write the answer and is not stored. You can use up to 6,000 characters at a time, which is around 1,000 words, and it is free for up to 30 answers a day. Like all AI, a summary can miss or blur details, so check important facts against the original.
Updated September 2026
How to use the AI Summarizer
- 1Paste the text you want to summarise into the box (up to 6,000 characters).
- 2Choose Short, Key points or Detailed.
- 3Press Summarise and wait a few seconds.
- 4Read the result, and press Try again for a different version.
- 5Copy the summary, and check the important facts against the original.
When a summary helps
A summary saves time when you have more to read than you can go through: long emails, articles, reports, transcripts, lecture notes and terms and conditions. A three-sentence overview lets you decide if a text deserves your full attention, and a list of key points is a good start for notes or a briefing.
Students use it to get the main ideas of a reading before studying it in depth, and workers use it to catch up on a long thread. It is not a substitute for reading a contract, a medical letter or an exam paper carefully.
Choosing the summary type
- Short: two or three sentences, for a quick sense of the topic.
- Key points: five to seven bullets that follow the order of the text, easy to copy into notes.
- Detailed: one paragraph that keeps the important facts, names and numbers.
- If the result is too thin, try Detailed; if it is too long, try Short.
Getting the best result
Paste clean text. Menus, comment sections and ads copied from a web page confuse the model and can end up in the summary, so copy only the article itself. Keep to one topic per run, because a text that jumps between subjects gives a scattered summary.
If your text is longer than the limit, split it at a natural break, such as a chapter or a heading, and summarise each part. To go further, Word Counter shows the length of your text, Paraphrasing Tool rewrites the summary in a different style, and Grammar Checker polishes the wording before you send it.
Privacy and limits
Unlike most tools on this site, this one cannot run entirely in your browser, because the language model runs on a server. Your text is sent over an encrypted connection, used to write the answer and not stored. There is a daily limit of 30 answers per visitor so that the service stays free for everyone.
On a phone, paste from the clipboard into the box, tap Summarise, and use the Copy button to move the result into your notes or messages.
Features
- Three summary types: short, key points and detailed
- Works in the language of your text
- Shows the word count before and after
- Try again for a fresh version
- One-tap copy
- No sign-up and no watermark
- Your text is not stored
Frequently asked questions
How does the AI summarizer work?
Your text is sent to a language model running on our AI service. The model is told to keep to the facts in your text, to answer in the same language and to write the type of summary you chose. The answer comes back in a few seconds and appears below the button. The service does not keep your text.
How long can the text be?
Up to 6,000 characters at a time, which is about 1,000 words or two pages. For a longer document, summarise it in parts and then summarise the summaries, or use AI PDF Summarizer for PDF files.
Is the summary always correct?
No. AI can leave out something important, mix up names and numbers, or over-simplify. Use the summary to get the idea quickly, and check dates, amounts and names against the original text before you rely on them or share the summary.
Which summary type should I choose?
Short suits a quick look at what a text is about. Key points give a bulleted list that is easy to scan, good for meeting notes and articles. Detailed writes one paragraph that keeps more facts, useful when you need names, dates and figures.
Does it work in other languages?
Yes, it summarises in the language you paste, and the quality is best for widely used languages such as English, Spanish, French and German. Results in smaller languages can be weaker, so read them carefully.
Is it free, and is my text private?
It is free for up to 30 answers a day per visitor, with no sign-up. Your text is sent to our AI service to write the answer and is not stored by us. Do not paste passwords, card numbers or anything else you would not want to send over the internet.