This text summarizer asks an AI language model to condense a passage into a shorter version, at the length and in the style you choose. Paste up to about 1,700 characters (roughly 250 to 300 words), press Summarize, and the summary comes back with Copy and Regenerate buttons and a word count for the original and the summary.
How to use the text summarizer
- Paste your text into Your Text. A live word count sits under the box.
- Choose a Summary Length and a Summary Style.
- Click Summarize. The summary appears word by word.
- Read the stats line, for example "60 words original → 36 words summary (40% shorter)".
- Copy the summary, or press Regenerate for another version.
Summary lengths and styles
| Summary Length | Summary Style |
|---|---|
| Brief (2-3 sentences) | Bullet Points |
| Short (1 paragraph), the default | Paragraph, the default |
| Medium (2-3 paragraphs) | Executive Summary |
| Detailed (4-5 paragraphs) | Simple (easy to understand) |
Pick the length to suit the source. Bullet Points works well for meeting notes, and Executive Summary suits a report you are passing to someone senior. A 250-word passage summarized at Detailed (4-5 paragraphs) can come back as long as the original, and then the page leaves out the "% shorter" figure.
Example request
Input, with Brief (2-3 sentences) and Paragraph selected:
The second-floor kitchen will be closed for repairs from Monday while the plumbing under the sink is replaced. The work should take about two weeks. Until then, staff can use the fourth-floor kitchen, which is getting a second coffee machine. Please label any food you move upstairs. Anything left in the second-floor fridge on Friday afternoon will be thrown away.Illustrative output (the model's wording changes from run to run):
The second-floor kitchen closes on Monday for about two weeks of plumbing repairs. Until it reopens, staff should use the fourth-floor kitchen, label any food they move there and clear the second-floor fridge by Friday afternoon.
60 words original → 36 words summary (40% shorter)Notice what went missing: the second coffee machine on the fourth floor. The model decides which details count, so read the summary against the source when the details matter.
An AI summarizer that writes new sentences
Some summary generators pick whole sentences out of your text and string them together. This one is an AI summarizer: it rewrites the content in its own words, which reads more smoothly but can merge, reorder or slightly change points. If you need the exact original sentences, for a quote or a legal text, copy them by hand instead.
Your text goes from the browser to this site's server and on to an outside AI provider. It tries Google's Gemma models first and falls back to other providers if that fails. The site does not store the text in its database, but the rate limiter records your IP address.
Using it as an article summarizer
The size limit suits passages of a few paragraphs: part of a report, a long email, meeting notes or a news story that needs a two-line version for a newsletter. For a longer article, split it into pieces under the limit, summarize each one, then paste the combined summaries back into the text summarizer for a final pass. The word counter shows the character total before you paste.
Limits and caveats
- The server rejects any request over 2,000 characters, and the instructions the tool adds take 263 to 305 of them depending on the options. Longer input fails with "Validation failed".
- Each IP address can make 5 AI requests per minute across all of this site's AI tools, and every Regenerate click counts as one.
- The model rephrases and can drop or change details, so check names, figures and dates before reusing a summary. A pass through the grammar checker helps if you edit it.
- To answer an email you have just summarized, the AI email writer drafts a reply from a sentence of intent.
Before you reuse a summary in your own writing, read how to edit AI content so it sounds human. For other tools like this text summarizer that need no account, see the list of free AI writing tools with no sign-up.
