# AI Summarizers

> Summarize YouTube videos, web pages, articles, PDFs, Word documents, plain text, and audio with Shorty.

Shorty offers a family of free AI summarizers, all available from [aishorty.com/summarizers](https://aishorty.com/summarizers). Each produces a structured summary you can read, edit, and keep.

## The summarizer family

| Tool | Input | Page |
| --- | --- | --- |
| YouTube | Any YouTube video URL | `aishorty.com/youtube-video-summarizer` |
| Webpage | Any URL — blog posts, docs, news | `aishorty.com/webpage-summarizer` |
| Article | Long-form articles and essays | `aishorty.com/article-summarizer` |
| PDF | Uploaded PDF files | `aishorty.com/pdf-summarizer` |
| Word | DOCX files (save an older .doc as .docx first) | `aishorty.com/word-summarizer` |
| Plain text | Pasted raw text, any length | `aishorty.com/text-summarizer` |
| Audio | Voice recordings (transcribe + summarize) | `aishorty.com/audio-summarizer` |

The YouTube summarizer is Shorty's home page and works instantly with no account: paste a link and get key points, full breakdowns, and chapter summaries.

## Saved summaries and the editor

When you are signed in, every summary is saved to **My Articles**. Summaries open in a rich editor where you can:

- Edit, format, and copy the text freely (never gated)
- Use inline AI rewrites from the editor's bubble menu — successful AI rewrites are metered per day by plan (25 on Free, 150 on Premium, 400 on Pro); manual editing is always unlimited

## Shorty Assistant

The chat assistant at [aishorty.com/chat](https://aishorty.com/chat) is aware of the tool you are using — for example, on a summarizer page it knows you are summarizing and can help with the content at hand.

## Trending articles and search

Shorty also publishes AI-generated summaries of trending topics at [aishorty.com/articles](https://aishorty.com/articles), and full-text search across articles is available at `aishorty.com/search`.

> **Note:** Want summaries programmatically? The same capabilities are exposed through the [public API](/docs/developer-api) (`POST /v1/summaries`) and through [MCP tools for AI assistants](/docs/connecting-ai-assistants).