Free Text Summarizer
Paste any article, essay or paper and get a clear summary in seconds. Free, private, and no sign-up.
Runs entirely in your browser · built by Answerr
How to summarize text
Paste your text into the box, choose how short you want the summary (short, medium or long), and click Summarize. The tool finds the most important sentences and returns them in order, so you get the key points without changing the author's words.
Why students use a summarizer
Summarizing long readings saves time, helps you revise faster, and makes it easier to spot the main argument before you cite a source. Pair it with the free citation generator to summarize and cite in one workflow.
Frequently asked questions
Is this text summarizer free?
Yes. It is completely free, runs in your browser, needs no account, and has no ads. Paste your text and get a summary instantly.
How does the summarizer work?
It uses extractive summarization: it scores every sentence by how many important, frequently used keywords it contains, then keeps the highest-ranking sentences in their original order. Because it selects the author's real sentences, nothing is invented or misquoted.
Is this an AI summarizer?
It uses an NLP (natural-language processing) ranking method rather than a large language model, so it is fast, private and free — and it never hallucinates, because it only reuses sentences from your text.
What can I summarize?
Articles, essays, research papers, textbook passages, notes, or reports. Paste at least 40 words, choose short, medium or long, and click Summarize.
Is my text private?
Yes — everything runs locally in your browser. Your text is never uploaded anywhere.
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