Comparison

SemanTer vs Summarize This

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SemanTer

This tool efficiently creates summaries of articles and webpages, reducing hours of work to seconds. It preserves the original meaning and allows users to adjust the summary length. Supports multiple languages and offers features like a dark theme and embedded browser.

Highlights
  • AI-powered text summarization
  • Adjustable summary length
  • Summarize links and URLs
  • Multilingual support (16 languages)
  • Dark theme and refreshed UI
  • Summarize files (PDF, DOC, etc.) with Pro version
  • Export summaries to PDF
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LEARN BETTER. DO MORE. INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY! You can achieve all of this using SemanTer – efficient tool for summary creation. Have you ever tried to write a summary even for a small article? This could have taken several hours. You can reduce this time to several seconds and get the summary from professionals. SemanTer fully preserves the meaning of source text and enables you to determine summary size. WHAT’S NEW: ● Dark theme ● Refreshed UI SAVE YOUR TIME WITH SUCH FEATURES: ● Exceptionally precise algorithms Our algorithms are unique and patented, which guarantee high precision of each summary. ● Variable Summary Size Need more detailed or brief summary? Just use slider at the bottom of the screen. ● Summarize links and URLs from other apps Press Share button in the app and choose SemanTer. ● Multilingual summarization in 16 languages: English, German, French, Russian, Chinese (limited), Dutch, Danish, Czech, Finnish, Italian, Portugal, Spanish, Romanian, Norwegian, Hungarian and Japanese (limited). ● Share summaries in social networks, Skype, e-mail, etc. ● Interactive History of recently summarized webpages ● Embedded browser for content search and summarization It is easy as ABC: - Find a page you wish to summarize - Press Summary button - Done! ● Text block summarization ● Adjustable summary font size for convenient reading ● Lightweight and fast IN-APP PURCHASES ● Weekly or monthly subscriptions. Subscriptions give you all the advantages of Pro-version: summarization of webpages and files without any restrictions and ads as well as summary export to PDF file. Subscriptions are renewed automatically. You can cancel your subscription at any time in the AppStore. ● Packages of 12, 25 and 39 summaries. If you ran out of free summaries for a day (12 pcs.), you can purchase any required amount of summaries. Packages can be used for new documents summarization or for changing sizes of already created summaries. Number of packages is not limited – buy as many as you need. ● Remove ads: one-time purchase allows to completely remove ads from the app BENEFITS OF SEMANTER PRO: ● iCloud, Google Drive & local files summarization (PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPTX) * With SemanTer Pro you can summarize files on your iOS device (iOS 11+), Google Drive and iCloud as well as webpages of any size. * Only files with text inside are supported, excluding pictures or scanned documents. For security reasons password protected files are not processed. ● Unlimited size of texts You can summarize really big documents. ● Unlimited number of summaries ● Ad free ● Summary export to PDF file QUESTIONS If you have any questions or problems, please use Help section in the app or send us an e-mail if you can’t find an answer. Please, don’t leave negative feedback before contacting our support service. Thanks! YOUR OPINION SemanTer was designed to save priceless time of our clients and we hope it does. If you think this app has potential, please give us positive feedback in AppStore. If you have proposals, please, e-mail us. It’ll allow to keep improving SemanTer and help other people to benefit from it. Your opinion matters to us! We're constantly working on development of SemanTer and you can contribute to the process by buying Pro-version. Important links: ○ Basic usage of SemanTer, including Sharing and Embedded browser https://semanter.com/howto/#howto-basic ○ Advanced usage of SemanTer, including Summary Size, Text block summarization etc. https://semanter.com/howto/#howto-advanced ○ SemanTer benefits https://semanter.com/benefits ○ Terms of use https://semanter.com/license-agreement ○ Privacy policy https://semanter.com/privacy-policy

About

Summarize This

Condense lengthy text, web links, and videos into concise summaries. Utilize a shortcut extension for quick access and summarization of any content. Offers free trials for its premium features.

Highlights
  • Summarize text
  • Summarize links
  • Summarize videos
  • Shortcut Extension
  • Free trials
Features
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Summarize anything such as text, links, videos and long form content with Summarize This. You can also use our Shortcut Extension to quickly go to the app and Summarize whatever you need. Try Summarize This for free with our Free Trials. ELULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SemanTer4 screens
Summarize This4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Summarize This at 4.3 against SemanTer's 3.1. Summarize This also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). SemanTer's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SemanTer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days and Summarize This sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Summarize This holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SemanTer ships an update every 2 months, Summarize This fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SemanTer versus Summarize This: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSemanTerSummarize This
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (9 ratings)4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB11 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperStanislav IegorovMohamed Maail

Customer experience

SemanTer

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Summarize This

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

SemanTer

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly subscription$1.497 Days
  • Monthly subscription$3.491 Month
One-time5
  • 12 summaries$0.99
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • 25 summaries$1.99
Show 2 more
  • 39 summaries$2.99
  • 99 summaries$5.99
4 purchases

Summarize This

Subscriptions3
  • Summarize This: Pro Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Summarize This: Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Summarize This: Pro Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Summarize This: Life Time$7.99

Questions

Is SemanTer free?
SemanTer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Summarize This free?
Summarize This is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SemanTer or Summarize This?
Summarize This is rated higher. SemanTer averages 3.1 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Summarize This averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do SemanTer or Summarize This have ads?
Neither SemanTer nor Summarize This shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SemanTer or Summarize This?
SemanTer ships an update every 2 months, and Summarize This fortnightly. Most recently, SemanTer was updated on September 6, 2026 and Summarize This on September 17, 2026.

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