Summarize
Summarize anything. Where you found it.
Select a long email, a thread, an article or a report, press one keyboard shortcut, and Echo gives you the point in a few lines. No summarizer tab, no pasting, no losing the place you were reading.
macOS 13 or later · Free 7-day trial
How to summarize text on a Mac with a shortcut
Select what is too long
A twelve-message thread, a contract, a research paper, a wall of meeting notes. Echo summarizes exactly what you highlighted and nothing around it.
Press your shortcut
Press 4 for Summarize. Or type your own instruction if you want bullet points, a single sentence, or only the decisions that were made.
Keep it, or drop it in
Copy the summary somewhere, or replace the original text with it. The popup closes and you are back exactly where you were.
Everything you have to read anyway
There is no file to upload and no document to attach. Echo summarizes whatever you can select, wherever you found it.
Long email threads
Catch up on a chain you were added to halfway through, without reading it backwards.
PDFs and reports
Select the section you actually have to know about and get its point in a few lines.
Articles and research
Decide whether something is worth twenty minutes before you spend them.
Meeting notes
Turn a page of raw notes into the decisions and the things that happen next.
Slack channels
Select the part of the discussion that happened while you were away.
Documentation
Get the shape of a page first, then read only the part that concerns you.
Questions
Select the text anywhere on your Mac, press your Echo shortcut and choose Summarize. The summary appears in a small popup over the app you are in, ready to copy or to replace the original.
Echo handles what you can comfortably select in a document or a thread — long emails, articles, sections of a report. Very large documents are better done a section at a time, which also gives you a more useful summary.
Yes. Type your own instruction instead of using the preset — bullet points, one sentence, only the action items — and refine the result if the first pass is not what you wanted.
Yes, as long as the PDF has selectable text. Echo works from your selection, so a scanned page with no text layer is the one case that will not work.
No. The selected text and the summary live in memory for the duration of the popup and are never saved or logged.
No. There is nothing to upload — Echo works from the selection you already made, in the app you already had open.
Summarize is one of five tools. See what else Echo does.