ReadPartner Review: Summarization, Reading, Reimagined

ReadPartner

$

8

• Try ReadPartner
• How we test →

ReadPartner is an AI summarization tool that can summarize websites, documents, videos, text, and articles. Its AI-powered news automation aims to help professionals to keep up with trends and make informed decisions with real-time insights.

As a content creator, I find myself researching for hours before I can start writing. Not only is this time-consuming, but it’s also not the most practical approach.

ReadPartner promises to resolve this issue by using AI for research grunt work and providing context-driven responses. But is it worth the hype?

That’s what I’ll determine in this ReadPartner review. I’ll test its key features like Summarization and News Digest, and cover how it could benefit researchers, businesses, and institutions.

Features

• Summarize text, website, videos, and documents
• Create a personalized automated news digest and deliver it via email and SMS.
• Supports various languages, including English, Dutch, and Japanese.
• Listen option to play summary in the background.
• Provides user analytics and history for data-driven insights.

Pros

• Summarization is quick and covers important aspects
• News Digest is useful for businesses to stay updated with trends
• Excellent Discussion feature for extracting more information (within document context)
• Web app and Chrome extension are easy to use

Cons

• Not meant for diving deep into a particular topic for knowledge gain
• Free tier features are highly limiting

What is ReadPartner?

ReadPartner is an AI-powered tool that saves you time by offering media and long-form content analysis and summarizing it for you in digestible format.

It’s an accessible tool that offers a Chrome browser extension to quickly summarize online content, including videos, documentation, academic studies, news, and even books.

Based on an Adobe survey, US employees spend 24 hours and 54 minutes per week (on average) to read and summarize documents. AI tools like ReadPartner can significantly reduce the time spent in these tasks.

Anyone who relies on research can use ReadPartner to reduce their reading workload and save time. This includes journalists, researchers, business professionals, marketers, students, and content creators. It is also a useful AI tool for business people and busy professionals—helping them make faster decisions based on reliable summarized information.

Founded in February 2024 by Grigory Silanayan, ReadPartner is a relatively new company with headquarters in Dover, United States.

Testing Methodology

I’ll test ReadPartner’s capabilities by summarizing different types of content.

There are two ways you can use ReadPartner:

• Copy and paste content or URLs to their tool via its web app.
• Via its Chrome plugin—it summarizes the page in a single click.

I’ll use both methods to showcase ReadPartner’s capabilities throughout the review.

ReadPartner Summarization

ReadPartner excels at summarization. You can use it to summarize different kinds of content, including articles, videos, websites, and even raw text.

Under the hood, it utilizes natural language processing. This helps it understand the context better and offer accurate and concise summaries.

I used it to see how well it works and created summaries for different sources and media formats. These include:

• Websites
• Online review article
• Online information article
• Text
• Documents
• YouTube video

ReadPartner lets you change summary settings. However, it is advised to leave them as they are. You can access the settings via the cog option, as shown in the image below.

The Legacy mode allows you to choose a response length from three available options: Short, Medium, and Long.

ReadPartner currently supports four languages: English, Dutch, German, Japanese, and Russian. They’re working to add more language support, including Korean, Spanish, and Ukrainian, in April 2025.

Websites

To test its website summarization capabilities, I summarized two sites: Geekflare and ReadPartner.

Let’s check the Geekflare site’s summary.

The screenshot above shows that the summary produced by ReadPartner is short and precise. It pins down the important information in a readable format.

But what about ReadPartner’s own website? Well, I summarized it, too.

It does a good job summarizing the sites. Also, you can see that I asked the AI questions, which it answered accurately.

This offers an excellent use case for business leaders who want to quickly go through different tools or services before making a decision. For example, if they’re looking for reseller hosting, they can go to popular reseller hosting providers such as A2 hosting, SiteGround, and inMotion hosting.

However, it is not capable of analyzing multiple links and providing you a comparison, which other broader AI models such as ChatGPT can help with.

When I entered the following:

I want to help summarize these three reseller hosting providers to help me choose the best one based on value for money, resources offered, and ease of use.
https://www.a2hosting.com/reseller-hosting/
https://www.siteground.com/reseller_hosting.htm
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/reseller-hosting

It replied, “The content you provided is too short; please try summarising something else.”

However, you can start with one link and then ask questions like “How does the A2 Hosting reseller program compare to SiteGround’s reseller program?” 

Online Review Article

For my MailerLite review, I wrote approximately 4,000 words. It’s highly detailed and provides deep insights into MailerLite. So, I decided to test ReadPartner’s capabilities for summarizing the review.

As I have written the review myself, I can judge if it’s creating the summary correctly or not.

ReadPartner did summarize the review correctly. It included important points and provided them in separate sections such as Introduction, Features, Pricing, and so on. Impressive!

I wanted to try their Legacy mode with the long response type as well. So, I went forward and ran the query again.

To my surprise, it didn’t do well. It returned a hard-to-read summary with no separate sections.

Online Information Article

Like websites or reviews, you can summarize information articles, such as Wikipedia pages. I’m a big fan of Formula 1, so I went forward and summarized the Wikipedia page on it.

It does a good job of summarizing the information. It is helpful for mostly new learners to get a broad idea about the sport.

But what if you want to learn more? This is where the text summarization capabilities come in.

Text

On the Formula 1 Wikipedia page, there are plenty of sub-sections such as History, Technological Developments, Big Business, Manufacturer’s Return, etc.

So, to know more about these, you’ll have to copy-paste the text to their online web app and summarize it. Let’s summarize the F1 history section.

As you can see from the screenshot above, ReadPartner provided a decent summary! You can also ask questions, either by selecting the pre-listed questions or asking something new. However, the answer must be within the text or the resource listed.

Documents

ReadPartner is capable of summarizing documents. You can upload documents using the file types TXT, PDF, DOC, and PPTX. But the size of the document depends on the subscribed tier, with the free tier offering 5 MB, the standard tier offering 10 MB, and the Pro tier offering 25 MB.

To test, I upload my Frase review document in PDF format.

And, it did a great job at summarizing it. 👇

YouTube Video

Not every information we consume is text. There are tons of interesting videos full of information out there. As a SaaS expert, I need to review industry leaders’ videos to keep up with the rapidly changing B2B industry.

Like text content, ReadPartner can summarize video as well.

To test this, I picked up this YouTube video that discusses Cold Calling Tips. 

Again, as you can see above, the video was summarized correctly. You can also ask more questions for specific information. For example, you can ask what the duration of cold calling is each day. In the video, the narrator mentions 1 hour and the same is shown by ReadPartner!

ReadPartner News Digests

ReadPartner’s News Digest is a handy way to create automated summaries of particular topics across multiple news sources. It is a customizable feature where you can select:

• Frequency of digest: daily, bi-weekly, weekly, and monthly.
• Language: select from any of the available 5 languages.
• Source: choose news sources, including CNBC, CNN, The Verge, TechCrunch, and many more. You need to select a minimum of 3 with the option to go up to 15 sources.
• Keywords: Add keywords you want the news digest to cover (needs minimum 3 keywords).

You can configure the news digest to be sent by email or SMS (WhatsApp option coming soon).

ReadPartner for Businesses

ReadPartner offers business-focused solutions to improve productivity and decision-making. 

It offers News Digests for organizations that provide automated news delivery. Administrators can set up the company-wide digest once and forget about it. The News Digest is highly customizable, where you can select the keywords, frequency, language, and much more. With curated business news monitoring and information gathering, teams can make informed decisions based on market trends and data.

Businesses also get proper team management tools with the option to invite team members.

But how does it separate from the News Digest feature available to normal users?

Here, ReadPartner offers key enterprise-ready features, including:

• Ability to create an advanced News Digest that can include competitor tracking, trend analysis, and news monitoring.
• Summarize different forms of media and sources, including PDFs, videos, articles, etc.
• Invite team members with ease.
• Get enterprise-based support with resolutions under 24 hours.
• Proper data security and privacy.
• Get priority processing for News Digest.

ReadPartner for Educational Institutions

ReadPartner is equally suitable for educational research and learning. It helps educational institutions, students, professors, and faculty save valuable time and stay productive. Using ReadPartner, students or professors can summarize lengthy documents on complex subjects and improve the learning process, especially when used with discussion options.

Professors or institutions can create institution-wide digests, improving how students keep up with new trends.

How to Summarize Using ReadPartner?

You can summarize using ReadPartner in two ways:

• Via its web app
• Via its Chrome add-on

Web App

To use its web app, go to its official site.

Now, create an account and log in.

You’ll see a user-friendly web interface with a History tab on the left and a search box in the middle of the screen. 

Enter the link or copy-paste text that you want to summarize and click the “Up” arrow button.

That’s it. ReadPartner web app will provide a quick summary.

Chrome Add-on

To use the ReadPartner Chrome add-on, you’ll need to install it first.

Once installed, pin it to your browser extension list. 

Now, go to any web page (informational or video) and click on the ReadPartner Chrome extension.

It’ll open a small pop-up window with the summary!

Note: I’m using Microsoft Edge. It uses Chromium, which has the same underlying code as Google Chrome.

ReadPartner Pricing

ReadPartner offers a freemium plan. Its free plan requires no payment but has limits, including the number of summary requests you can send, only being able to use basic summary settings, and so on. Below is the table that lists the different ReadPartner pricing plans.

Plan	Pricing (Per Month)	Summary Requests	Advanced Summary Settings	News Digest	Usage Analytics	Support
Free	$0	5/week	❌	❌	❌	✅
Standard	$8 (billed yearly)	Unlimited	✅	✅	✅	✅
Pro	$17 (billed yearly)	Unlimited	✅	✅	✅	Priority support

Enterprise plans start at $20/user/month (minimum 5 users). It offers everything Pro offers, plus team management, priority support and enterprise request handling.

ReadPartner Alternatives

ReadPartner competes with alternatives like SummarizeBot, TLDRThis, Semantria (from Lexalytics), and Genei. In the table below, I’ve compared ReadPartner with its alternatives based on document and video summarization, news digest, free plan, and starting price. This will give you an idea about which tool might work better for your specific use case.

Is ReadPartner Worth it?

Yes, ReadPartner is worth it. It is a highly accurate tool that uses natural language processing to provide context-heavy summaries and save time. Plus, its News Digest is a handy feature for staying updated with industry trends, making it a great feature for business use cases.

That’s why I recommend ReadPartner to the following professionals:

• News Readers & Journalists
• Researchers
• PR/Agencies
• Business Professionals

In fact, during my testing time with ReadPartner, I saved 4 hours and 12 minutes. This showcases its effectiveness for summarizing research and saving time that can be better spent elsewhere.

ReadPartner Verdict

ReadPartner is an excellent AI tool. Its ability to summarize different types of content into digestible form is highly valuable, especially in fast-paced and competitive markets.

I like how easy it is to get summaries via its Chrome add-on. Just one click gets you the summary of any website, PDF, and even videos—that too in a few seconds. The summaries are also well-structured, showing keywords highlighted with their meaning, ensuring that you don’t have to leave the page. 

This has higher implications for businesses and institutions, where they can save hundreds of man-hours by setting up proper News Digests to help teams make informed decisions.

However, it is ultimately a summary tool and must be treated like so. If you’re seeking deep knowledge about a topic, then ReadPartner is not for you. It does offer discussions, but can only work with content that needs summarization.

It can help you kick-start learning by gathering smaller bits of information (easily digestible) and then deciding on whether to read it in detail. In both cases, you save a lot of time and effort.

Based on these points and my evaluation during testing, ReadPartner receives the Geekflare Innovation Award. Its ability to create a digestible form of summaries for busy individuals such as researchers, journalists, writers, and business professionals can be invaluable for reducing time spent on reading and researching, enabling them to focus on more complex workflows.