Too long? Get the TL;DR.

Paste text, an article link or a YouTube video — get a clean summary in seconds. Free, no sign-up, no ads.

Any public article or blog post. Paywalled pages usually can't be fetched — paste the text instead.

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10 free summaries a day, no account, no ads. Free account: 30 a day, 3x longer inputs and chapter summaries. Pro: unlimited.

One box for everything you don't have time to read or watch

Articles & reports

News, essays, papers, documentation — paste the link or the text. Full-length articles, not a 600-word cap.

YouTube videos

TL;DW: drop a video link and read what it says instead of watching 40 minutes of it.

Your own text

Meeting notes, email threads, transcripts, drafts — shrink them to the part that matters.

How it works

1

Paste text, an article URL or a YouTube link.

2

Pick a style: TL;DR, key points, or a detailed breakdown.

3

Read or copy the summary — in your language, seconds later.

There's an API too

Summarize from your own code — one JSON endpoint, free token on every account.

curl -s https://summarizer.free/api/v1/summarize/ -H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN" \
  -d '{"kind":"url","mode":"tldr","input":"https://example.com/article"}'
API docs →

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Frequently asked questions

Yes — 10 summaries a day with no account and no ads, for inputs up to ~25,000 characters. A free account gives you 30 a day, ~55,000-character inputs and chapter summaries. Pro is unlimited with ~500,000-character inputs — about four hours of video.

It depends on your tier: about 25,000 characters without an account (~a 15-minute video), 55,000 with a free account (~40 minutes), and ~500,000 on Pro (~4 hours). If your input is over your limit, we tell you exactly which limit you hit instead of silently cutting it off.

Any YouTube video that has captions (auto-generated ones count). If a video has no captions at all, paste its transcript into the Text tab instead.

Yes. The summary comes back in the language you're using the site in — pick it from the menu in the top bar. The input can be in any language.

It's processed on our own servers to produce your summary, kept briefly for abuse prevention, and never sold, published or used to train models. Details in the privacy policy.

The summarizer only restates what's in the source — it's instructed never to add facts. For anything high-stakes, use the detailed mode and skim the original: a summary is a map, not the territory.