Text Shortener
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Shorten long text while keeping key points with free AI. Concise writing instantly.
How to Use Text Shortener
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Use this tool via API
Automate this tool from your own code. OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint, Bearer-token auth, no extra SDK required. Token costs match the web interface.
curl -X POST https://api.free.ai/v1/chat/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-free-..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "qwen7b", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this: ..."}]}'Related Free AI Tools
Text Shortener — FAQ
Free.ai Text Shortener condenses any block of text to a target size while keeping meaning. Six target sizes: Tweet (280 chars), SMS (160 chars), Executive summary (~50 words), Standard summary (~100 words), Halve it (50% of original), Trim light (75% of original). Priority picker lets you rank what survives: preserve meaning, keep facts/data first, keep action items first, or most-punchy phrasing.
Resoomer Premium is $19.99/mo with 5,000-char limit on the free tier. QuillBot Summarizer caps free use at 1,200 words ($9.95/mo Premium). TLDR This is $3/mo minimum. SMMRY is free but uses extractive sentence-ranking (quotes verbatim sentences, no paraphrase). Free.ai runs on self-hosted GPUs, no monthly subscription, 5,000+ word inputs, and ships 6 purpose-built targets (Tweet / SMS / Executive / etc.) with explicit character limits the model actually enforces.
Summarizer (/text/summarizer/) is for structured output — bullets / table of contents / key points + quotes / executive summary. Use it for meeting notes, articles, reports. Shortener is for condensing to a specific size — tweet, SMS, exact-word-count summary. Use it when the output length matters more than the output format.
Three known failure modes: (1) Tweet and SMS targets drop secondary information by design — verify the important point survived. (2) Halve-it on fact-dense text may drop some numbers; use Priority "Keep facts & data first" if you need all statistics. (3) Executive mode assumes the source has a recommendation; if it doesn't, the model may imply one. For high-stakes condensing (legal, medical), always review output against source.
The prompt instructs the model to count characters and stay under 280. Models are not perfect counters (they tokenize, not char-count) so occasionally the output runs long — Text Shortener shows the character count in output stats so you can catch it. If it's over, copy + trim manually, or regenerate with slightly shorter input.
A ~50-word decision-ready summary with three elements: 1 sentence of context, 1 sentence of the key finding, 1 sentence of the recommendation or ask. For leadership emails, board memos, or status updates where the reader has 10 seconds. Pair with /text/tone-changer/ Professional tone if the source is casual.
Nine explicit picks + auto-detect. English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic. Auto-detect works across all 99 Free.ai languages. Character-count targets (Tweet, SMS) are calibrated for Latin scripts; for CJK (Chinese / Japanese / Korean) the character limits still hold but represent roughly 2× more information per character.
Up to 10,000 words (~40,000 characters). For longer documents use /text/summarizer/ ~20% mode which scales to the input. For PDFs use /pdf/summarizer/ which handles native extraction.
The system prompt prioritizes preserving unique claims over examples. For fact-dense content, pick Priority: "Keep facts & data first" which moves every number, statistic, date, and citation to the front of the preservation queue. Verify critical numbers in output against source.
Text is sent to Free.ai's self-hosted GPUs, processed, and discarded. We do not train on user inputs. We log only timestamp + token cost for billing — never the source text. Generation history (signed-in users) stores a 200-char preview.
No — first shortening runs free, no email, no credit card. Sign up for 10,000 free signup tokens + generation history + access across all 400+ Free.ai tools.
Yes. POST to /v1/chat/ with the shortener system prompt (bearer auth, monthly limits per plan). Useful for auto-tweet generation, SMS workflows, executive briefing pipelines. Full snippets at /api/.
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