# Shorty Overview

> What Shorty is and what you can do with it — AI summaries, transcription, subtitles, file conversion, and a developer API.

Shorty ([aishorty.com](https://aishorty.com)) is an AI productivity toolbox built around one idea: turn long content into something you can actually use — fast, and without making you sign up first.

> **Onboard your agent:** paste this into any AI coding agent — "Fetch and execute the appropriate instructions to set me up for Shorty from https://aishorty.com/agent-setup/prompt.md"

## What Shorty does

- [AI Summarizers](/docs/summarizers) — Summarize YouTube videos, web pages, articles, PDFs, Word documents, plain text, and audio.
- [Transcription and Subtitles](/docs/transcription-and-subtitles) — Turn audio and video into text, record and transcribe in real time, and generate SRT, VTT, or burned-in subtitles.
- [File Converter](/docs/file-converter) — Convert and compress files — audio, video, images, and PDFs — right in the browser or in the cloud.
- [Developer API and MCP](/docs/api) — A REST API at aishorty.com/v1, official SDKs, webhooks, and an MCP server for AI assistants.

## Free by design

The core tools are free to use with no account or login required. You can summarize a YouTube video, transcribe a recording, or convert a file as a guest. Creating a free account unlocks saved history (your articles and transcriptions) and higher guest limits; the paid Premium and Pro plans raise upload sizes, batch sizes, and durations — see [Plans and limits](/docs/pricing).

## Shorty Assistant

Shorty includes a built-in AI chat assistant (available at `aishorty.com/chat`) that is context-aware: it knows which tool you are using and can help you work with your summaries and transcriptions.

## Everywhere you work

Shorty runs in any browser, ships iOS and Android apps, and offers browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge — see [Apps and extensions](/docs/apps-and-extensions).

> **Note:** New here? Start with the [Getting started guide](/docs/getting-started) — your first summary takes under a minute.