Summ-it
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveSaves articles, PDFs, newsletters and videos, then reads them back as an audio playlist
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $7.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Pro is $7.99/month or $74.99/year with 100 natural-voice credits a month; Premium is $13.99/month or $129.99/year with 250. A credit covers one article plus one more per extra 30 minutes of audio, and paid plans keep unlimited saves in the basic voice. Free allows 100 saves a month in the device voice with a 7-day archive and 25 starter credits; prices are Google Play launch rates and App Store pricing may differ.
Use tool ↗About Summ-it
Summ-it is a read-it-later queue that plays back as audio. Articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, pasted text and whole newsletters go in from a Chrome, Safari or Firefox extension, the phone share sheet, or by forwarding email, and each item becomes a full narration or a summary of chosen length. The library is searchable by question, with answers that cite the saved articles, and Catch Up folds a backlog into one short briefing. Topic playlists, offline downloads, translation into 30 languages, CarPlay and Android Auto make it a commute tool. Free gives 100 saves a month in the device voice; Pro is $7.99 a month for 100 natural-voice credits.
- Platforms
- Web · iOS · Android · Chrome extension
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Saves articles, PDFs, YouTube and newsletters via extension, share sheet or email forwarding; Ask with cited answers, Catch Up, CarPlay and Android Auto (15 October 2026)summ-it.pro ↗
- Free 100 saves a month; Pro $7.99/month or $74.99/year with 100 credits; Premium $13.99/month or $129.99/year with 250 credits; 1 credit per article plus 1 per extra 30 minutes (15 October 2026)summ-it.pro ↗
- Terms of service are governed by the laws of the State of Israel with arbitration under Israeli law (15 October 2026)summ-it.pro ↗
Is Summ-it legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- May 20, 2026Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 18, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 16, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
Pros & cons of Summ-it
The good idea here is not the narration, which everyone does, but the queue around it: forward an email, get it in a playlist, and let Catch Up flatten a week's backlog into one briefing. Credits are counted per article rather than per minute, so the plans are easy to reason about, and the free tier is generous if the device voice is good enough for you.
Pros
- Ingests articles, PDFs, newsletters, YouTube and email, not just web pages
- Choice between full narration and a summary of adjustable length, per item
- Ask returns answers with citations back to the saved item
- CarPlay and Android Auto support plus offline downloads
Cons
- Natural AI voices are metered by monthly credits on every paid tier
- No company name published; only Israeli governing law in the terms
- No public API found, and no export of the generated audio described
Best for
- Commuters who want their newsletter and article backlog as audio
- People who forward things to themselves and never read them
- Anyone wanting a summary of a long PDF they can listen to before deciding to read it
Not for
- Users who need the source text rather than audio
- Heavy readers who want natural AI voices on more than 250 items a month
Watch out: Long pieces cost more than one credit: each extra 30 minutes of audio takes another, and prices shown are Google Play rates that can differ on the App Store.
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