# Summary Box Reviews **Vendor:** Summary Box **Category:** [AI Writing Assistants](https://www.g2.com/categories/ai-writing-assistant) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Summary Box Summary Box is your personal AI copilot for the web. It enhances your online experience by providing functionalities to summarize content, write, and chat with web pages and uploaded documents. It's designed to make your experience on the web across any website more interactive, informative, and efficient, whether for research, study, or personal use. ## Summary Box Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find **Summary Box easy to use** , enabling efficient navigation through articles and tailored configurations. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **customizability** of the product, easily tailoring it to their specific needs and preferences. (1 reviews) - Users enjoy the **easy customization** that allows tailoring the product to their specific needs and preferences. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of configuration** in Summary Box, enhancing their experience with various document types. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy implementation** of SummaryBox, enjoying its straightforward installation and user-friendly content conversion. (1 reviews) - Simple (1 reviews) - Users find **Summary Box invaluable** for quickly orienting themselves with article results, enhancing their reading efficiency. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **contextual understanding** lacking in Summary Box, especially for complex arguments and technical terms. (1 reviews) - Users wish for a **word limit option** in summaries to read them more quickly and efficiently. (1 reviews) ## Summary Box Reviews ### 1. AI based summarizer plugin to quickly skim throuhg a web document **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajalakshmi D V. | Product Management Intern, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** Summary generated by the plugin is concise and very handy when browsing the web, it does not lose any of the important content and allows us to ask followup questions on the side panel chat window. It can also write content based on the custom prompt provided and uses the text from the web view to get more context, which is really helpful for content writing. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** It has some shortcomings where followup questions divert from the original context and the answers are no more relevant to the web page that we were viewing. Also the plugin sometimes freezez the browser and browser lands up in long running process asking us to either stop the web page from loading or we have to restart the browser. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** Summar box is really helpful in skimming through multiple internal docs and chatting with them using AI chat window. This is helpful for us in quickly reading a web page, and even writing new content from the existing web page context. We are using it mainly for reading product blogs and using similar information for publishing and marketting our own products on oracle web pages. ### 2. The extension is a loss of time if one is looking for a single tool to work for all. **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SARAYU B. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** It only works for articles with textual content. It dodnt work for me on most of the newsarticles which contained images. The only best part is its ease of usage as it comes handy in the form of a browser extension and summaries can be generated on go with in chrome. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** It just doesnt work well with iamge content. Has several inaccuracies sometimes missing out key details based on the amount of summary selected by the user. Does not take in to account the code snippets present. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** The tool promises in generating text summaries for all kinds of content such as PDFs, youtube videos, articles etc., But it seems to work well only with textual content. The premium version of the product doesnot give many new features when compared to the free trail taking into account that there are many open source softwares for the same work that work for free. It would also have been better if there was a feature to actually look at the generated summaries so that hey can be stored or shared with others. There is also no mention of how and what data would be stored and used by the product. ### 3. Decent tool for getting summary of the webpage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayesh H. | Product Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** SummaryBox helps to get shorter version of the content in a readable format. It is available as a chrome extension, and you can install and use it without much headache. It convert the contents on website, in a simple, and easy to understanding way. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** The provide summary, but still the summaried version is also long. It would have been better if they had a option to limit how many words can be there on a summaried version, so that we can read summuries faster. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** Summary Box Provides interface to read shorter content, and helps you to understand the context without going through the entire page. ### 4. An AI tool to summarise the content **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshima Nishith K. | Content Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** It is easy to access as it can be a part of your chrome extension. So, you do not have to login to the website everytime you need to have a summary of a content or URL. Implementing summary box is easy and fun. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** The character count is limited in the writing space . Cannot write much therefore have to think what words should be included but as a Chrome extension, it is good. It can summarise long page as well. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** A;ways reading an entire page can be time consuming . Sometimes you just need to know what is important about this page . Summariser helps to make this task simple but showing the summary of the entire page and SAVES TIME ### 5. Summarizer on browser and easy summarization of URL's **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh S. | Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** The feature to summarize articles of links precisely in the way we want, we specifically use it's link summarization feature **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** There are still a few bugs in the platform, such as there are some issues in logging in and out of the platform, there should be a mobile app too. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** I prefer it to underatand complex topic and save my time using their summarization tools through which I can easily write and understand topics, we mainly use it to summarize links instead of going through complex pages this saves our time and efforts ### 6. Great user experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** I've been using Summary Box for the past few weeks almost daily, and it's been a real time-saver! As someone who reads a lot of articles and reports for work, I needed a tool that could quickly distill the main points without losing important details—and this tool does just that. The summaries are usually spot on and coherent, it worked right away and integerated with my chrome with no problems . implementation is very easy you simply paste the text, and within seconds, you get a concise summary. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** would have preferred if they have a free version. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** As someone who reads a lot of articles and reports for work, I needed a tool that could quickly distill the main points without losing important details ### 7. Summary Box- Summarize your problems to solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nanda K. | Deliverability Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** Summary Box help to understand long paragraghs sent by my clients in simple format. Help to support my customers with quick and easy solutions. Features like paraphrase helps to ease the statements and make it undersatand. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** Sometimes translation cause issues with understanding of the statements. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** It resolves the queries asked my clients and make it easy to understand. ### 8. Information is available on the internet **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zamani I. | Junior Project Manager, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** I am able to easily determine the key issues of an article or a research paper, without focusing on the peripheral aspects. I must admit that the program does a remarkable job at summarizing webpages and documents. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** There is no continuity of thought flowing from one program list to another in the summaries. This makes it difficulty to arrive at the general meaning of the original content as a whole, especially for intricate subject matters. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find it useful in parsing a large volume of text data effectively. Information overload on the web is addressed by the following Summary Box. It helps me decide which headlines to give close attention and which headlines to merely skim over. ### 9. Keeping up with the happenings and balancing responsibilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mostafa H. | Marketing Manager, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** Summary Box useful for orientation with the results of brief articles, digest news or portions of it. It works well as a summary tool so that I can sift through a stack of material and see which articles I want to focus on. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** Summary Box summaries are therefore not as helpful when one is dealing with rather detailed arguments on complex matters or technical matters that involve difficult terminologies. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** Summary Box is useful when I am to filter massive information within a short span of time particularly those within the internet. It allows me to filter the content, find sources, and gain information on various subjects in general. ### 10. Save your precious time with this plugin! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** I simply find it difficult to read very long posts due to time constraints. This tool comes in handy to summarise the whole page. I also use it very frequently when I am not able to understand a post well. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** No issues so far. I find it quite useful. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** It summarises complex or long text on a page in shorter version which is easy to digest and understand. It saves a lot of time. ### 11. Best tool for instantaneously summarise the article **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arunmozhi B. | Research Scholar, Education Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** Summary box is the best ai summarizer to instantly summarize the research article.summary box is quite accurate while summarise the article without losing the keypoints from the research article. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** I would like to make a suggestion to develop a ms-word plugin to use more effectively. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** Summary box very useful to summarise the research article to only read the keypoints of the article.it also summarise from the text, Google docs, pdfand YouTube videos. ### 12. Powerful tool to be work directly on the site **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anubhav P. | ui designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** Have features to summarize text, url, audio, pdf and even youtube also. Easily create the content through pargraph using keyword and have many tone features like professional, casual and friendly **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** Genearate summary using AI, that's already knows by the browser that's is copied using AI. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily summarize the short para into long para using title for my videos and site. ### 13. Good software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** liza g. | industrial engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** It's Great to summarize every text you need **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** It's a little dificult to understand how it works **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's faster to do any text without effort, i can have the resume of any information and it will be great , really takes the most important things to be show ### 14. This is such a good summarizer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** I love how easy it is so configure it to my needs and wants. It works for pdf, articles, and any post you want. I love it honestly. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** nothing, it is straightforward to use, and the best in the market. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is solving the time issue with reading an article and summarizing everything, and it also paraphrases for me when needed. ### 15. Summary Box **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Summary Box?** Summary Box excels at condensing complex information into clear, concise overviews. It saves time, enhances comprehension, and improves retention by highlighting key points. **What do you dislike about Summary Box?** Summary Box can oversimplify content, leading to loss of important details or context. **What problems is Summary Box solving and how is that benefiting you?** content - [View Summary Box pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/summary-box/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-20+04%3A14%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7c92ac88-9205-4823-a135-02462723c89b&secure%5Btoken%5D=79a0afa8cc16d47495af34f259844b19cf51f6a61f1edde73e8b5a7efc447752&format=llm_user) ## Summary Box Features **Grammar** - Grammar Check - Tone Check - Sentence Formatting **Formatting** - Plagiarism Check - Style Editor - Citation Finder **Content ** - Idea Recommendation - Content Generation - Form Generation **Product Type** - Standalone Application - Plugin **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization ## Top Summary Box Alternatives - [Zoom Workplace](https://www.g2.com/products/zoom-workplace/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (53,417 reviews) - [Grammarly](https://www.g2.com/products/grammarly/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (11,898 reviews) - [Intuit Mailchimp Email Marketing](https://www.g2.com/products/intuit-mailchimp-email-marketing/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (12,653 reviews)