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Paste any long, padded, or over-written text. Get back the same content at roughly half the length — every essential point intact.
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Most first drafts are too long. Not because writers have too many ideas — but because cutting is uncomfortable. Deleting sentences you wrote feels like losing work. The result is writing full of padding: phrases that add length without adding meaning.
The most common offenders:
Clearwrite's shortener catches all of these — and restructures sentences where the padding is baked into the syntax rather than sitting in obvious filler phrases.
| Goal | Best Tool | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Trim excess words, keep structure | Text Shortener | ~50% length |
| Get a quick overview of long text | Summarizer | ~25–30% length |
| Use different wording for same ideas | Paraphrase | Similar length |
| Improve flow without reducing length | Rewrite | Similar length |
For more aggressive reduction, use the Text Summarizer. To clean up grammar after shortening, run through the Grammar Checker.
The target is roughly 50% of the original word count. A 300-word paragraph becomes approximately 150 words. The shortener prioritises cutting repetition, filler phrases, and over-elaboration rather than removing key points.
It targets redundancy and filler first. Essential facts, arguments, and conclusions are preserved. That said, compare the output to your original — if a specific detail is critical to your argument, verify it survived.
Text Shortener cuts word count while keeping the original structure — it makes the same text leaner. Summarize reorganises and condenses more aggressively, aiming for 25–30% of original length. Use Shorten for editing; use Summarize for radical reduction.
Yes. Business writing tends to be padded with filler phrases ("in order to", "it should be noted that", "as a result of this") that Shortener removes efficiently, leaving tighter, more credible prose.
Absolutely. Over-long emails are one of the most common business communication problems. Paste the draft, shorten it, and the result is usually more direct and more likely to get a response.