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Best AI Summarizers in 2026
AI summarizers can shorten material from documents, webpages, or transcripts. Compare document upload, webpage summaries, transcript summaries, and input limits, then consider how much control you need over summary length. Export formats may affect how the result fits into your workflow; free-plan availability and paid starting prices offer cost context. Lemora, AskSia, and Briefy are among the options. Think about…
Eightify uses AI to summarize YouTube videos and extract their key information.
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Scholarcy
Scholarcy turns research material into interactive summary flashcards that highlight key information and provide context.
Free planWebAPIExtension7.5From $90 a year - 5
SciSummary
SciSummary uses AI to help scientists, researchers, and students understand scientific and research papers through summaries, analysis, and insights.
Free planWebAPIExtension7.4From $48 a year - 6
TLDR This
TLDR This is a text summarization service for turning articles and other lengthy material into concise content.
Free planWebAPIExtension7.4From $4 a month - 7
SummarizeBot
SummarizeBot summarizes links, documents, images, and audio, returning key information such as keywords and key phrases.
Free planWebAPI7.2From $179 a month - 8
Briefy
Briefy turns lengthy material into structured summaries and keeps them in a knowledge base for later use.
Free planiOSWebExtensionmacOS7.0From $89.88 a year - 9

Kagi Summarize
Kagi Summarize turns web pages, videos, and podcasts with available transcripts into summaries.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.0From $5 a month - 10

smry
smry is an AI reading workspace that summarizes articles, organizes them, and answers questions with the relevant passage.
Free planiOSWebExtension7.0From $36 a year - 11

Summify
Summify turns PDFs, PowerPoint files, YouTube videos, and articles into structured insights, with options for flashcards, quizzes, and audio.
Free planiOSWeb7.0From $4.99 a month - 12
Summary AI
Summary AI records meetings, lectures, and podcasts, then converts them into transcripts and actionable notes.
AndroidiOSWebmacOS6.9From $79.99 a year - 13

AskSia
AskSia solves homework problems in math, science, engineering, business, and computer science, with step-by-step explanations.
Free planAndroidiOSWebExtension6.8Free plan - 14

Paraphraser.io
Paraphraser.io is an online writing tool that rephrases sentences and articles while aiming to keep their meaning.
AndroidiOSWebAPI6.8From $0.99 a year - 15

genei
genei is an AI-powered research and note-taking tool for analysing webpages, documents and PDF files.
Free planWebExtension6.7From $5.49 a month - 16
Lemora
Lemora turns lectures and course materials into study notes and learning resources.
Free planAndroidiOSWebmacOS6.7Free plan - 17
PDF Summarizer
PDF Summarizer is a web service that uses AI to summarize, search and translate documents in more than 90 languages.
Free planWeb6.7From $12 a month - 18

Sidenote
Sidenote is an AI reading assistant for asking questions about documents in a browser and checking the passages behind its answers.
Free planWebExtension6.7From £14.40 a year - 196.7From $7 a month
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SummarizeDocs
SummarizeDocs is a web-based tool that turns documents and pasted text into summaries.
Free planWeb6.7From $79 a year - 21
Grasp
Grasp uses domain-aware AI to produce summaries and insights from text, documents, images, audio, and video.
Free planWebExtensionmacOS6.6From $95.88 a year - 22
Recast
Recast uses Claude AI to turn PDFs, article links, text, and topics into content for different platforms.
Free planWeb6.6From $15 a month - 23
Summio
Summio turns eligible books, public YouTube videos, compatible public articles, and text-based PDFs into structured summaries.
Free planiOSWeb6.5Free plan - 24
PaperGate
PaperGate is a web platform for finding, accessing, and summarizing academic research.
Free planWeb6.4From $9.99 a month - 25

TurboSum
TurboSum creates AI-generated summaries of text, webpages, files, YouTube videos, audio and web search results.
WebExtension6.4From $49.99 a year