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24 alternatives to Wikum

Recursively summarize long comment threads, from MIT

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Wikum launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   ExplainToMe▲182

   Automatic web article summarizer

   2016 · explaintome.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Reddit Summarizer▲260

   Summarize long Reddit threads with one click

   Dec 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Twitter Thread Summarizer▲103

   Compress long Twitter threads into a short story

   2021 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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   HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories▲335

   Hey there HN! I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!) HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different. While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This…

   2023 · hackyournews.com · its alternatives →

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   TL;DR▲199

   I love Hacker News but I rarely have time to read full articles / comments, so I built a simple site to summarize the top posts & comments to make it easier to get a big picture. A few implementation details: - It pulls the top stories from the HN Firebase API (`/v0/topstories`) - Filters stories with >200 points - Uses Claude Sonnet for post + comment summaries - Tries to capture the sentiment of the comments (still working on improving this) - Refreshes both posts + summaries hourly It has already helped me I hope it helps you! Please let me know if you have any feedback --…

   2025 · tl-dr.tv · its alternatives →

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   Spacy.io▲86

   Semantic analysis of the Reddit hivemind

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Taim▲67

   Speed up knowledge consumption

   2023 · its alternatives →

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   SummifyYT▲93

   Summarize YouTube comments

   2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Wikiwand▲169

   Streamline Wikipedia knowledge and answer your questions

   2024 · wikiwand.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    ThreadGenie▲86

    The ultimate tool for crafting twitter threads

    2023 · threadgenie.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Reading the Comments▲70

    Likers, haters, and manipulators at the bottom of the web

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Summarize this site▲92

    Get short summaries from long web articles

    2023 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Endless▲132

    Random and amazing Wikipedia articles.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    TldrGPT.net▲112

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

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Cwiki▲130

    A Command line interface for searching Wikipedia!

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wiki – Command line Wikipedia summaries▲7

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    @SummariseThis▲70

    Get the gist of threads in one tweet with @summarisethis

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Chrome extension to summarize blogs and articles using ChatGPT▲116

    Summarize web pages using OpenAI ChatGPT. Contribute to clmnin/summarize.site development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Clipped▲74

    Summarize anything.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Reddit Thread Summarizer▲12

    Thread Summarizer

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Lect.io▲60

    MOOCs contextualized comments for lectures.

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Feedworthy▲72

    A beautiful way to experience Reddit

    2014 · yapstudios.com · its alternatives →

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    Chrome extension to summarize HN comments using AI and LLMs▲8

    Hello! I built this to solve a personal problem of where I didn't want to wade down large chains of HackerNews comment threads in order to get the key takeaways from the discussions. I built this Chrome extension, which supports both OpenAI and Ollama(local LLMs) to summarize comments and display the summary within Chrome's sidepanel. It's open source as you can see from the link, feedback appreciated!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kullish – Bring your own links (BYOL) comment aggregation▲7

    2020 · kulli.sh · its alternatives →

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