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   TLDR This▲362

   Automatically summarize any article or webpage in a click.

   2019

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   ExplainToMe▲182

   Automatic web article summarizer

   2016

3. 3EM
   Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot▲76

   2018 · summarizebot.com

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   Free Summarizer▲167

   Summarize *any* text online in just a few secs. *MAGIC*

   2015

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   Summarify▲185

   Summarize PDFs, webpages, Youtube videos, blogs & more

   2023

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   synopsis▲163

   Summarize any webpage or article automagically.

   2019

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   TldrGPT.net▲112

   Summarize and share any web. Get to the point, save time

   2023

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   Youtube Summarizer by Spext▲189

   Summary, search & automated chapters for any Youtube video

   2023

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   Summarize This▲121

   Summarize text, YouTube, tweets, and anything else you want

   2023

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    Automatic tool to summarize any text, document, or URL▲62

    2016 · summarizer.intellexer.com

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    AI Summary Helper - Summarize Articles▲139

    Summarize  in your language and style & read them on the go

    2024

12. 12SF
    Summarized Finance / Tech Newsletter Using Natural Language Processing▲93

    2019 · getthecrypt.com

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    TL;DR▲85

    Interesting content, summarized by real people

    2014

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    Text Summarizer AI▲140

    Summarize any text content in seconds for free

    2024

15. 15TI
    Tldr++ – interactive tldr client▲10

    2018 · github.com

16. 16IB
    I built a site that summarizes articles and PDFs using NLP▲31

    2022 · summarizen.com

17. 17TA
    TextTeaser – An automatic summarization app and API▲16

    2013 · textteaser.com

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    Gistr▲55

    Your thinking space for Learning & Research

    May 2026 · gistr.so

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    QuickRead AI▲91

    Summarize & chat with any webpage

    2024

20. 20AR
    App Reviews Analysis and Summarization▲47

    2013 · sensortower.com

21. 21TO
    TLDRs of 300 articles for developers▲22

    2020 · insnippets.com

22. 22AA
    An AI zettelkasten that extracts ideas from articles, videos, and PDFs▲38

    Hey HN! Over the weekend (leaning heavily on Opus 4.5) I wrote Jargon - an AI-managed zettelkasten that reads articles, papers, and YouTube videos, extracts the key ideas, and automatically links related concepts together. Demo video: https://youtu.be/W7ejMqZ6EUQ Repo: https://github.com/schoblaska/jargon You can paste an article, PDF link, or YouTube video to parse, or ask questions directly and it'll find its own content. Sources get summarized, broken into insight cards, and embedded for semantic search. Similar ideas automatically cluster together. Each…

    Dec 2025 · github.com

23. 23SA
    Summa, a tool that annotates over whatever you're reading▲5

    Jul 2026 · summa.josephruocco.net

24. 24WC
    Wiki – Command-line tool to fetch summaries from Wikipedia▲35

    2015 · github.com

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