About

About Summio

Summio is an AI reading companion for iPhone made by a small independent team. We build the tool we wanted ourselves: open input — book, video, article, or PDF — structured summaries you can chat with, and a library that compounds with use.

What Summio is

Summio is an open-input AI reading companion for iPhone. Drop in a book title, a YouTube URL, a long-read article, or a PDF; get a structured summary you can read in five minutes or fifty depending on the depth you pick. Save it. Chat with it. Drill it. The library compounds — the things you read accrue into something you can search and revisit, not a pile of bookmarks you forget.

What we make

  • AI summaries — books, YouTube videos, web articles, and PDFs (including scanned PDFs via automatic OCR). Four reading depths, from a 5-minute triage to a 45-minute deep read.
  • Dialogue — chat with any source. Every claim points to a passage; every answer cites the original. If we can’t ground it, we don’t print it.
  • Practice — spaced-repetition flashcards generated from the summaries you save. Five minutes a day to keep what you read.
  • Library — your saved summaries, available offline, syncing across your devices, indexed for search and chat.

What we believe

Reading is not the opposite of scrolling — forgetting is. The opposite of a thoughtful hour with a book isn’t the next book; it’s the version of you who read it last year and remembers nothing. Summio is an act of care against forgetting.

We compress sources to their essence; we don’t replace them. The original work earns the hours. A summary is for triage and recall — deciding what to read, then keeping what you read. The book itself remains the thing.

Source-grounded AI: every claim points to a passage. We refuse to print a sentence the model can’t cite. This is the difference between a reading companion you can trust and an LLM that confidently invents methodology details.

The team

Summio is made by a small independent team — not part of a larger publisher, content network, or summary catalogue. We build it with care, ship it ourselves, and answer support from the same inbox we read bug reports in. You can reach us at [email protected] for support and [email protected] for privacy questions.

Where we operate

Summio is globally available. The app is free to download from the Apple App Store and runs in 27 languages. Data may be processed in the United States and the European Union under Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border transfers. The full data-processing posture lives in the Privacy Policy, and the use-of-service terms in the Terms of Use.

Get in touch

Questions, bug reports, partnership inquiries, press — write to us. We read everything that comes in.