Article summarizer
Paste the address of any public article and read the key points first.
No example to hand? — a long encyclopedia article — long enough that the preview will offer you just the first part.
Summaries you create here are kept for 7 days so you can save them by signing up.
Sumwise is a free article summarizer. It fetches the page, pulls out the article text and writes a structured summary: a title, then the key points as a list you can skim. Blog posts, news stories, documentation and long-form essays all work.
The preview starts without an account — the title and the first key point arrive straight away. A free Sumwise account opens the rest and keeps it in your library.
How the article summarizer works
Paste the article's address
Any public page: a news story, a blog post, documentation, a long-form essay.
Sumwise reads the page
The page is fetched and the article text extracted — navigation, headers, sidebars and footers left out — then read as text.
Read the summary
The title and the first key point appear straight away. Sign up free to open the rest of the key points.
What you get
- The same structure every time: a title, then the key points — one idea per line.
- News, blogs, documentation and essays — anything served as a public web page.
- Inside Sumwise, summaries in 7 languages: English, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, Arabic (full right-to-left), German and French. This page runs in English.
- A free account: 5 summaries a day, 30 a month, no credit card.
- Every summary you make is saved to your library, so you can come back to it.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need an account?
- Not to start. Paste a link and you will see the article's title and its first key point straight away. The rest of the key points needs a free Sumwise account, and signing up pulls the summary you just made into your library.
- Which pages work?
- Most public articles, blog posts, documentation and essays. Pages behind a login or a paywall, and pages that assemble their text with JavaScript after loading, can come back empty — Sumwise fetches the page rather than running it. For those, the Chrome extension reads the page you already have open.
- How long can the article be?
- Long articles are fine. Something very long is cut down for the free preview — when that happens Sumwise tells you and offers to summarize the first part instead of quietly shortening it. With an account, the whole page is summarized.
- Can I paste a YouTube link here?
- Yes. Sumwise recognises a YouTube link and reads the video’s captions instead of the page, because a YouTube page on its own carries no article text. There is a page built for that: the YouTube video summarizer.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing to try here, and nothing for an account: the free plan is 5 summaries a day and 30 a month, with no credit card. Pro raises those limits — the pricing page has the current numbers.
- What happens to the article I paste?
- Sumwise keeps the summary it produced so you can claim it after signing up, and an unclaimed preview is deleted after seven days. The page itself is fetched to read its text and then dropped — the source text is not stored with the summary.