Back from the ashes, Summize has returned from 18-year-old founder @rghanem1 with a new UI, five new features, and the ability to save summizes. (And a freemium subscription model.) With Summize, you can scan a photo of your textbook or news article and instantly get access to a summary, concept analysis, keyword analysis, bias analysis, grammar analysis (essays), related videos, background info, instant annotation and flashcards.

Haven't been able to try it out yet but if this can do what it says it can well, then wow!

Love the story. Inspiring. Best wishes with the new launch!

So tell us what happened since the previous launch, being removed from the App Store and the 2.0 release :)

@rghanem1 Good job at putting the product first by removing it from the app store to improve it. Also Summize is exactely what we want in an app now : a real unique tool that does something specific really well, and with a lot of technology in it (compared to e-shop apps and website-like app for example). Your freemium model is awesome too :)

A web demo would be cool!

Looks great! Excited to try it out. Also, it looks like you forgot to put a link on your website to the app store page, which you might want to fix :)

So cool. When I was in college a few friends and I would read only specific chapters, write summaries, then pass them to the others so we didn't have to read as much. So sweet you have found a way to do this with an app

Love the transparency and honesty. Great work.

Trying it, but it crash a lot. Hope you solve this

Really happy it came back. I like the freemium move. Barrier may be set a little low, but if the analytics show that as below average I'm excited to see where it goes. Great job @rghanem1

Very cool, I'll try this out shortly... but have you seen this which, unless affiliated w/you somehow and/or I'm out of it and missing something, is not even trying to hide that it's a knock-off of your app? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...

Hello - thanks Chris for hunting us. Glad to be back. Our initial launch went well, at least for the 3 days it was up. We ranked in the #1-5 position on the paid app store for more than 10 countries including USA, Canada and Australia. We realized that as we grew, our back-end was not built to withstand the amount of server requests - so in order to mitigate a crisis, we simply took the app down to work on it. We made changes to the server in ~2 days and all users who had the app purchased were able to use the app with no issues. We decided to keep the app off the app store, though. We decided to invest 1.5 months to rebuild the entire framework and architecture of the app. Summize 2.0 now includes learning NLP - as the userbase evolves, it learns from mistakes and makes improvements on the go. Another big change was the monetization model. We decided to change into a freemium subscription model. Free users get access to concept, keyword and bias analysis for up to 5 scans. Paid users ($1.99/mo) get access to all features (including grammar analysis, related videos, background info, instant annotation, flashcards) and have unlimited scans. Anyone who had purchased the app when it was previously $0.99 automatically get credited a lifetime paid subscription upon updating. The third big change was adding a save summize feature. Some users from our first version mentioned that they'd like to save their results so they could go back to them easily without hassle. So now, once you receive your summaries and analyses, you can click the 'Save' button in the top right corner and it'll be stored in the Saved tab. Here is a quick overview of the new features: Grammar Analysis: runs through the text (essay) and provides spelling, grammar, format and style suggestions Related Videos: provides a series of in-app videos that provide additional reference or background to the textbook page Background Info: pulls up every major & minor concept, as well as main words, and provides definitions, explanations and reasonings Instant Annotation: hyperlinks concepts, terms and events in the text which you can click and get an annotation (more info & explanation) Flashcards: pulls up interactive flashcards you can play inside the app that have to do with the textbook page The team is still myself (18 y/old), Carter Bjorklund (18 y/old) and Aiden Craig (16 y/old). We have future plans to expand into many more study departments including history and chemistry. There is a lot we can do and we're excited.

Will this app ever be available for the web as a webapp?

Eh, where were you while I was at university? Very cool.

I wish the website had an example of what information might be gathered from a page... like a sample from a textbook.

@rghanem1 Clvr stuff !-) perfect for millennial's and even old farts like me lol