# Summuray — Create Summaries > App for creating and managing text summaries from documents. (iPhone/iPad app by Christoph Schuierer.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/summuray/id1517413303 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Christoph Schuierer](https://appshunter.io/developer/1482543763) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free - Rating: 3.67/5 from 3 App Store ratings · 17 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 13.0 · 3 MB - Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish - Released: 2020-12-30 - Data updated: 2026-06-03 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/summuray/id1517413303/reviews.md ## What is Summuray? Become the summuray of summaries! Get the most important things from your texts with Summuray. The desired text parts of your PDF are moved to a summary by simply selecting the words. Summuray allows you to easily summarize, manually edit text, insert images, and more. This saves you work and time by allowing you to focus on the essential. Perfect for learning, sharing, or just to have important information available immediately. - Summarize texts automatically: Use your Apple Pencil (iPad only) or your finger to mark the desired text passage. Summuray recognizes the marked section and adds it to your summary. - Manual text input: Summuray allows you to write a completely new text or to manually edit and add to your summary. - Handwriting recognition: Summuray recognizes your handwriting. This allows important marginal notes to become part of your summary. - Customize your text: Summuray allows you to customize your text using various tools. Tools: - Text Size - Text color - Font size & typeface (bold, italic) - Underline - Insert images: With Summuray you can add images and graphics to your summary. Simply select the desired image in the PDF or insert one from your photo library. - Merge PDFs: Summuray merges different documents into one. - Sharing: Share your information - share your summaries in PDF with just one click. - Efficient document management: Organize your documents in a folder structure and add endless subfolders. - Take your documents anywhere: Summuray uses iCloud to keep your documents and summaries up to date. So you always have the most important information with you - on your iPad, iPhone and Mac. ## Key features - Automatic text summarization - Manual text editing and input - Handwriting recognition - Image insertion - PDF merging - Document organization - Cloud synchronization ## Recent user reviews (10 of 17) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/summuray/id1517413303/reviews.md ### 4/5 — App utilissima, unica!!! Molto intuitiva! *2024-12-13, version 1.3* Con Mac Book spesso si interrompe e si blocca. Vi prego aggiustatelo è favolosa questa app!! ### 1/5 — Dejó de funcionar *2024-05-25* De pronto y sin aviso, la app dejó de funcionar, intento hacer algo en ella y se cierra, ya sea un documento o una carpeta, es injusto, pues es de pago. ### 1/5 — Sounds Good *2024-02-29, version 1.3* Sounds good but firstly restricted only to PDF and then can't actually seem to select any file so it can't be tested. ### 1/5 — Full of potential but doesn’t work. *2023-04-16, version 1.3.1* Tried it on a pdf file. The pencil touch point doesn’t coincide with the pdf selection. It’s useless at this point. ### 2/5 — App utilissima, peccato per i bug!!! *2023-02-10, version 1.3.1* Per favore aggiornate l’app, prima funzionava perfettamente, ora non riconosce più il testo del pdf! Sarebbe da 5 stelle se non fosse per questo problema recente! ### 5/5 — Proffesional Organization *2022-09-20, version 1.3* The negative associations that the term bureaucracy evokes in us are in stark contrast with the positive image of the professional organization. We prefer to be known as professionals rather than bureaucrats. Architectural firms, accountancy firms, and consultancies are the most frequently cited examples of professional organizations. but professional organizations are also common in the public sector, such as educational institutions, universities, and welfare organizations. Professionals perform complex work that requires specialized knowledge and skills. Professionals have received specialist training. Think of lawyers, psychiatrists, and scientists. Professionals strongly identify with their profession, which is expressed, among other things, in shared professional ethics: professional rules about what action is and is not responsible at a given moment. Characteristics of the professional organization are the long-term education and the intensive training of the people who work there. A professional organization has several characteristics that correspond to the bureaucratic organizational form. Here too there is a far-reaching division of tasks, a hierarchical structure, and position covering based on expertise. In an ideal-typical professional organization, authority is linked to knowledge and skills. Power remains at the bottom of the organization, with the specialists, the organization, the scientists, and the welfare workers. In comparison between a professional organization and a bureaucratic organization is that in the bureaucratic organization the chief officer takes the decisions it is a chain of command and in a professional organization such as a hospital they are professionals and everyone can take decisions. ### 4/5 — Great concept! *2021-12-16* Me gusta mucho la dirección que lleva esta app! Y por eso tengo algunas sugerencias por las que estaría encantado de pagar si se desarrollan. Por orden de relevancia: 1. PRINCIPAL: El resumen es el resultado final, pero me gustaría poder interactuar entre él y el texto a través de un esquema de contenidos editable al estilo de los marcadores de Acrobat, y que las 3 vistas estén relacionadas. De hecho el resumen bien podría ser el conjunto de ambas vistas, es decir, los comentarios y subrayados dentro de la estructura de marcadores. El objetivo es poder volver a la fuente y agilizar los movimientos a través del texto. Esto le añadiría valor real, más allá de ahorrarte los click de copiar y pegar (puntazo) que actualmente es la única diferencia frente a las opciones multitarea que ofrece el iPad. 2. acceso multidispositivo vinculado a la nube de terceros dropbox, drive, etc. 3. se agradecería un drag and drop de imágenes y maquetación por cajas de texto con guías de alineación básicas. Un saludo! ### 4/5 — Very Nice So Far *2021-11-15, version 1.3* I don't usually write reviews, but I really liked this app. I normally use PDF Expert for annotations (heavy research notes). But this app really simplifies the annotation summaries. It is quite sleek. It reduces the steps one has to complete to extract text from PDFs and lets you work on your annotation summary as you go. If you work with research documents a lot, this is immensely useful. I hope the developer continues to improve this app. It is a teeny bit buggy right now, but not in ways that can't be fixed. For instance, I could change the font in the apple settings but not in the app settings for text that had already been written. I would happily purchase this app in the future as it gets tweaked a bit. But I am using it now and think it is a phenomenal idea and beautiful execution of that idea. ### 1/5 — - *2021-11-03, version 1.3.1* Alles funktioniert nicht !!! ### 3/5 — Broken *2021-08-31, version 1.3* With recent update highlight doesn’t work, no text appears, Apple pencil highlight is blank, nothing copied to doc , undo button which is new doesn’t work. There are plenty more things I’d like to share feedback about but when i have time… ## Frequently asked questions about Summuray ### How does Summuray summarize texts? Summuray allows you to select desired text passages from PDFs or other texts using your finger or Apple Pencil. The app then recognizes the marked section and adds it to your summary. You can also manually input or edit text. ### Can I edit the summaries created by Summuray? Yes, Summuray offers robust editing capabilities. You can manually edit existing text, write entirely new content, customize text size, color, font, and even add images or graphics to your summaries. ### What devices does Summuray support? Summuray is available on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod. It utilizes iCloud to keep your documents and summaries synchronized across all your Apple devices. ### Is Summuray free to use? Yes, Summuray is offered for free. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements, allowing for an uninterrupted user experience. ### How does Summuray handle document organization? Summuray provides efficient document management through a folder structure. You can organize your documents and add an unlimited number of subfolders to keep your summaries and source materials well-organized. ### Can I share my summaries from Summuray? Absolutely. Summuray allows you to share your created summaries in PDF format with just a single click, making it easy to distribute your condensed information. ### Does Summuray have ads? No, Summuray is completely ad-free. The application does not contain any advertisements, ensuring a clean and focused user experience. ### What is the age rating for Summuray? Summuray has an age rating of 4+. This indicates it is suitable for users of all ages, with no content restrictions. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5 — 2023-12-10 Hi Summurays! This update contains new Keyboard Shortcuts, some bugfixes and optimization for iOS 17. ### 1.3.1 — 2021-09-27 Hi Summurays! This update contains some bugfixes and optimization for iOS 15. ### 1.3 — 2021-08-30 New Highlighting – Style:  - You can now select and highlight your text along the words in your PDF, so you always get the right text. - On iPhone and iPad without Apple Pencil, you can enter highlighting – mode by longpressing on the desired word and then swipe along the text. Favorites:  - We added two customizable Favorite Buttons for you, so you can select you preferred textsettings with one tap! Smaller Changes: - You can now access Document Settings inside an opened document. - On iPhone, the main interaction buttons for highlighting your PDF were moved into a bar at the bottom of the screen, so you can reach it more easily. - You can finally select different text fonts. Bugfixes - they are unworthy for all of you Summurays!: - Documents won’t get overwritten anymore. - Pictures will be extracted with a higher resolution. ### 1.2 — 2021-01-27 - Selecting Images from PDF: You can finally select any image from your PDF. Just highlight the image and Summuray will add it to your summary. - Bugs fixed: - Fixed a bug that brings the App to crash after leaving a folder - Fixed a bug that loads the PDF wrong after merging documents - Fixed a bug that brings the App to crash when saving an images from the summary - Mac - Version: You can finally enjoy Summuray on you Mac! Of course with full iCloud support. ### 1.1 — 2020-12-30 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Summuray | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Shortify: Summarize Anything](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shortify-summarize-anything/id1670824156) | 4.4 (34) | Free | Productivity | | [Text Summarizer: AI Summary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-summarizer-ai-summary/id6450649631) | 4.5 (18) | Free | Productivity | | [Summarize Text Summary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/summarize-text-summary/id6446126096) | 4.5 (16) | Free | Productivity | | [Summarize: AI Text Summarizer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/summarize-ai-text-summarizer/id6475821548) | 3.9 (16) | Free | Productivity | | [SemanTer - Text summarizer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/semanter-text-summarizer/id1063365070) | 3.1 (9) | Free | Productivity | | [Summary AI: TLDR Summarizer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/summary-ai-tldr-summarizer/id1567387131) | 4.5 (262) | Free | Productivity | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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