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Article Summarizer - Paste a URL, Get the Gist
Drop the link of a blog post, news article, or Medium piece. AI strips the noise and returns the main idea + key sections + conclusion, free.
Paste article URLNo credit card required
What is an article summarizer?
An article summarizer is a free AI tool that reads a web article from its link and returns a short summary: the main idea, the key sections, and the conclusion. You paste a URL, and instead of reading 2,000 words you get the gist in a few seconds.
CreatorNote pulls the article text from the link you paste, removes ads, menus, and clutter, then hands the clean body to AI. The result is a structured summary, not a wall of text: main idea up top, key points in the middle, conclusion at the end.
It is built for article links specifically. Paste a blog post, a news story, a Medium piece, a Wikipedia entry, or a journal blog, and it focuses on the actual content of the page. To summarize text you already copied, use the text summarizer; for any other kind of web page, use the web summary tool.
Start free with no credit card. The Free plan covers up to 80,000 characters per day, and you can summarize in 75+ languages no matter which language the article is written in.
One limit to know up front: paywalled articles cannot be read. The tool only summarizes pages that are openly accessible without a login or subscription.
How it works
- 1
Paste a URL
Drop the link of the article you want summarized.
- 2
AI extracts the content
Ads, menus, and clutter are stripped, and the main body is structured.
- 3
Get summary with citations
Main idea + key points + conclusion. Each point links back to the section it came from.
Supported article types
- Blog posts (WordPress, Medium, Substack)
- News sites
- Wikipedia entries
- Academic blogs and journal articles
- Content length up to your plan quota
Example output
Input
https://medium.com/example/productivity-guide-2026AI summary (with section citations)
Main Idea: Five AI-powered ways to boost productivity in 2026. Key Points: • Start mornings with deep work, not AI (Intro) • Build a prompt template library (Method 2) • Spend 30 seconds reviewing AI output (Method 4) Conclusion: AI is an assistant, not a robot. Keep your hands on the wheel.
Who is this for?
Researchers
Compare multiple articles side by side as summaries.
News digest
Skim the day's key articles as condensed summaries.
Academics
Quickly scan online journal articles.
Frequently asked questions
Read any article in 30 seconds
Paste a URL, let AI summarize. Free to start, no credit card.
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