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Summ-it
Turn your reading list into an audio playlist
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Turn your reading list into an audio playlist
10 followers
Most read-later apps store articles you never get back to; most TTS apps read one doc at a time. Summ-it focuses on both: easy addition (extension, share sheet, email) and seamless consumption - smart audio playlist, full read or summary per item, "Catch Up", and "Ask Summit" (Q&A over your library with citations).
Hi Product Hunt!
I'm Vadim, a creator of Summ-it app.
I built Summ-it after Pocket shut down and took its Listen feature with it. My reading list kept growing, and the only time I actually had for it was commutes, runs and dog walks - so I built the app that turns the backlog into something I listen to instead of feeling guilty about.
The idea is two halves that most apps only do one of:
EASY ADDITION - save anything, from anywhere:
• Browser extension (Chrome / Firefox / Safari)
• Your phone's share sheet
• Forward an email newsletter to the app's inbox
• Drop in a PDF, YouTube link (for an audio summary), or pasted text
SEAMLESS CONSUMPTION - it just plays:
• One auto-advancing audio playlist, podcast-style
• Full read or an AI summary per item
• Smart playlists, automatically grouped by topic
• Auto-translated to your language when needed
• Web pages and emails often come wrapped in clutter - it's stripped before narrating
• Natural voices, background + offline playback, CarPlay & Android Auto
BEYOND READ-ALOUD:
• Catch Up - automatically folds your backlog into one short briefing, so it never piles up
• Ask Summit - ask a question, get an answer drawn only from your own saved library, with citations to the items it used. You can listen to that too.
• Sessions & Discoveries - jump back to something you heard on a run but couldn't act on, and drill into the links found inside each article
Free tier is 50 items with natural voices, then a basic voice free forever; Pro is $7.99/mo (100 items/mo, translation to 15+ languages, Discoveries). Listening is Android/iOS - the extension and email are how you feed the queue.
I'd love feedback, especially from ex-Pocket-Listen users or anyone using another TTS or read-later solution: what's a replacement still missing? I'll be here all day. 🙏
the catch up feature is genuinely clever, sounds like exactly what i needed when my read later pile hits triple digits. love how the qa with citations treats the library like an actual searchable knowledge base rather than just a dump.
@asyaerbilen Thanks! The inevitable backlog is exactly what Catch Up was built for. The whole app is really about seamless consumption: personally I was never going to read dozens of saved articles, but I'll happily listen to a 5-10 minute briefing on a walk/commute. Catch Up, Ask with citations, automatic playlists - all of it comes from that.
honestly the catch up mode sounds great, but one thing i'd love is a way to save specific audio snippets from the playlist as standalone notes, basically highlight a moment while listening and send it to something like Notion with the citation already attached
@zmra1155063 Right, I thought about something like that, but since I designed it mostly for hands-free listening (commute, gym, jogging) I went the other way -- reversing the process: the Sessions screen shows the last played items so you can get back to them once you can actually operate the app. But then again, the precise moment is lost. I'll think more about your idea, it feels useful for many.
honestly the playlist idea is what got me, but a sleep timer that fades audio out gradually would be a nice touch for those long catch-up sessions in bed.
Love how Summ-it pairs catch up mode with the ask your library Q&A, that combo actually makes a read later backlog feel manageable again.