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24 alternatives to I made a website with nonfiction book summaries

The Summarist is a collection of high-quality nonfiction book summaries. Its goal is to allow you to get an idea of the contents of a book before you buy it, and to be used as a reference if you have already read it.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a website with nonfiction book summaries launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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The Summarist▲15
High-quality summaries of nonfiction books.
2024 · thesummarist.net · its alternatives →
2
Summarist.ai▲92
AI-powered book summaries
2023 · summarist.ai · its alternatives →
3
Bookstash▲512
Get the essentials of top books in under 3 minutes
2021 · bookstash.io · its alternatives →
4
Summarize▲256
Remember the books you read through organized notes 📚
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Summari▲624
Instantly summarize any article or webpage in one click
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hardbound 3.0▲739
Illustrated summaries of bestselling nonfiction books
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
7
SumReads▲148
Free book summaries
2024 · sumreads.com · its alternatives →
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Summarify▲185
Summarize PDFs, webpages, Youtube videos, blogs & more
2023 · summarify.me · its alternatives →
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Blinkist▲288
Key insights from 2,000+ bestselling nonfiction books
2013 · blinkist.com · its alternatives →
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Bookcademy▲251
Book summaries as fun, useful & practical courses
2019 · bookcademy.com · its alternatives →
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TLDR This▲361
Automatically summarize any article or webpage in a click.
2019 · tldr.hackeryogi.com · its alternatives →
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I built a site that summarizes articles and PDFs using NLP▲31
2022 · summarizen.com · its alternatives →
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BookWatch▲367
Animated book summaries for visual learners
2025 · bookwatch.com · its alternatives →
14
Summa-Rise ☀️▲93
Book summaries written by a human, delivered into your inbox
2019 · its alternatives →
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Executive Reads▲90
Revolutionizing how book summaries are consumed
2023 · grand-trader.com · its alternatives →
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Summerian▲247
Non-fiction book summaries that make you go "Aha!"
2020 · its alternatives →
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Summarki▲102
Powerful automatic summarization extracts meaning from text
2020 · its alternatives →
18
wits.io▲230
Weekly book summaries recommended by founders and makers
2017 · wits.io · its alternatives →
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Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI▲142
On demand web article summarization
2023 · summate.it · its alternatives →
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tl;dr AI Summarizer▲92
Summarize any web article
2023 · gettldr.app · its alternatives →
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Summrize – Free Non-Fiction Book Summaries▲6
Hey everyone! I know that a lot of people want to make more time for reading in their lives, but don't always have the time to do so. So I've created Summrize, an online platform for reading FREE non-fiction book summaries. For each book, I've condensed the most important concepts, quotes, actionable insights, frameworks and case studies, and presented them in a beautiful format. You can save the snippets that resonate the most with you, and share them on other platforms too! We know there exist other similar platforms (Blinkist, Shortform), but my goal with Summrize is to make access to the…
2024 · summrize.com · its alternatives →
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Digital Library▲94
Organize your books, track your reading and write reviews
2023 · pascio.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
23
Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics▲140
Science book reviews
2021 · vellum.tachy.org · its alternatives →
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Unsummary▲96
AI-generated summaries of books, movies, tv-shows, podcasts
2023 · its alternatives →

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