Free AI Text Summarizer
A summary you can trust has three properties
A good summary is shorter, faithful and useful. Shorter is easy. Faithful is the hard part, because a summary that invents a detail or shifts an emphasis is worse than none. Useful depends on the shape you choose. This free AI text summarizer lets you pick the form: a paragraph, bullet points, or key takeaways with a one-sentence bottom line, and a length of short, medium or long. It is told to use only what is in your text and to add no facts, numbers or opinions.
Choosing the right format
| Format | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Paragraph | A quick overview to paste into a message or report |
| Bullet points | Scanning an article, or noting the main claims |
| Key takeaways | A short list of the main points plus a bottom line, good for meeting notes, reports and emails that need a decision |
Length controls how much detail survives. Short gives one or two sentences, medium a paragraph of three to five sentences, and long three to five short paragraphs that cover every main point. For a one-line TL;DR, choose short.
Everyday jobs
- Long articles and papers: decide quickly whether a full read is worth your time.
- Meeting notes or transcripts: pull out decisions and who does what by when.
- Study material: condense a chapter into points for revision, then test yourself.
- Email threads: catch up on a long discussion before you reply.
- Your own drafts: if the summary does not match what you meant to say, the draft is unclear.
How to check a summary
Never skip this. Read the summary, then scan the original for the three or four most important claims and confirm each is present and correct. Pay special attention to numbers, dates, names and negations, because a missing not reverses a meaning. If you will quote the summary, or act on it, check the original passage for every figure you rely on. Summaries are for orientation, and the source remains the authority.
Working with long documents
Each request has a maximum length, so a book chapter or a long report may not fit in one go. Split the document into sections of reasonable size, summarise each, then paste the section summaries together and summarise those. This two-step approach often gives a more even result than forcing everything into one pass. You can also check how long a document is in tokens with the AI token counter, and extract text from a PDF with PDF to text.
What summaries lose
Nuance, caveats and minority viewpoints are the first things to go. Evidence and reasoning are often reduced to conclusions. Tone and humour vanish. For legal, medical, financial or scientific material, read the full text and treat any summary as a map, not a verdict. When the stakes are high, a person who knows the field should read the original.
What the lengths mean in practice
In bullet format, short gives three or four bullets, medium five to seven and long seven to ten. In paragraph format, short is one or two sentences, medium a paragraph of three to five and long three to five paragraphs. Key takeaways gives a short list of three to five points followed by a one-line bottom line, which makes it the best choice when you need a decision more than a description. Try two lengths on the same text, and keep the one that leaves out nothing you would have wanted.
How it works, and your privacy
Your text is sent to Google’s Gemini model, which writes the summary, and this site does not save it. Each visitor has a limited number of free uses per day. Do not paste confidential contracts, private messages or personal data you are not free to share. If you only need word counts or reading time, use the word counter, which works entirely in your browser.
FAQ
Yes, within a length limit per request. For very long documents, summarise in sections and then summarise the summaries.
The tool is instructed to use only your text and not to add facts. Always verify important points against the original.
Short is one or two sentences, medium is a paragraph of three to five sentences, and long is three to five short paragraphs. In bullet format, the number of bullets grows with the length you choose.
Extract the text from the PDF first, then paste it here.
No. It is sent to the AI model and is not saved by this site.
Yes. Choose bullet points as the format. Short gives three or four bullets, medium five to seven and long seven to ten.
No. The tool is told to use only what is in your text and not to add facts, opinions or advice.
No. The tool is told to use only what is in your text and not to add facts, opinions or advice.