Summly App for iPhone Review
Summly app for iPhone provides an easy way to browse/search the web by summarizing search results, web pages, and news articles automatically. It is accurate, while avoiding information overload for the user. Also, the app is language independent, which means it can summarize web contents across different languages. Summly iPhone app can be downloaded for free from Apple iTunes.
How iPhone Summly App Works?
When you search some term in Summly iPhone application, you’ll be returned a set of search results, with automatic summary. In other words, the app will fetch the results and summarize them. So, for the user, they can view the summary before actually deciding whether to head to a particular search result page or not. As per the developers of this application, their algorithm goes through the search results, pick relevant sentences from the source, and put them together to form a relevant summary before you open the search result page. The state-of-the-art technology of Summly uses a combination of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Ontology techniques at its core.
The user interface of Summly App is pretty well laid out. You could see the results large and clear. Further, it is possible to email summary or link directly from the application. You can also copy summary, or open a particular link in Safari browser.
The most notable aspect of Summly is that it reproduces results in any language, although it is optimised in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, and all other European languages. At the moment, the app works well with news articles and search results that are written in an informative style rather than in a narrative style.
Final Thoughts
Summly app for iPhone is a revelation. There are no similar apps that provide specialised search results that are automatically summarised, saving you both time and energy. Researchers in MIT, who have tested the app, certifies that it returns very accurate results most of the time. Further, the app is language independent, meaning it handles web contents written in virtually any known language on earth. To top it all, Summly is a free of cost iPhone app. Verdict: A must have if you search the web a lot from your iPhone.