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Essence is the quickest and most seamless way to get the summary of a web article.
- Quick and accurate summaries of long web articles / blogs
- Maintains the essence of the article while reduce the text
- Listen to the audio summary
Understand the tone, sentiment & key topics
Summarize articles in any language
Summarize email newsletters, twitter / X threads and much more
Best for reading all the news faster
- No signup required
It gives you a quick and accurate summary of what the article entails thus helping you decide whether to invest your time going through the entire article. With Essence you normally would get the gist of 5X more articles that you would normally get by reading the entire articles, thus significantly increasing the rate of information assimilation.
When you open an article to read, just click on Essence icon. You instantly get the core of the article, without all its bells and whistles. Read through the summary on the overlay, get the understanding of the what the article attempts to convey, and then decide whether to go ahead and read the entire article or not.
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Essence - Read smarter requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Essence - Read smarter is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.
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