TenWords is a Chrome extension built around one small, stubborn idea: most of what you are asked to read every day is far longer than what it actually says. Articles are padded to hit word counts, documentation restates itself paragraph after paragraph, and AI assistants answer simple questions with walls of text nobody asked for. TenWords takes the page you are already on and rewrites it in place, so that every single paragraph becomes exactly ten words long, with a ten-word summary of the whole page pinned to the top. It is not a summary panel bolted to the side of your window. The page itself collapses, paragraph by paragraph, into something you can actually skim.
TenWords rewrites the page into exactly ten words per paragraph
Not a panel beside the page: this page, condensed itself.
Using it takes one keystroke. On any article, any documentation page, any interminable blog post, you press Alt and T together, or click the small pilcrow icon in your toolbar if you prefer the mouse. The extension gathers up the paragraphs on the page, sends them off in parallel batches, and as each batch of summaries comes back the paragraphs fold down one after another, right where they stand, while a ten-word summary of the entire page settles in at the top. A long article finishes in well under a minute; you watch the page get shorter while you wait.
Press Alt+T on any article and paragraphs collapse in place
Or click the toolbar pilcrow; batches stream in while watching.
Press Alt plus T right here to see it again.
Sometimes the whole page is not the problem; the problem is one enormous quoted email, one sprawling comment, one section of a spec you need the gist of before a meeting that started two minutes ago. For that, you do not need to condense everything. Select the offending text with your mouse the way you would to copy it, right-click it, and choose Condense selection from the menu. Only the paragraphs inside your selection fold down to their ten-word lines; the rest of the page stays exactly as it was, untouched.
Select any part of a page, right-click, condense the selection
Only the paragraphs you selected fold; everything else stays untouched.
Nothing is destroyed, and nothing needs to be undone carefully. The original text of every paragraph is kept, byte for byte, from the moment you condense. When you want the full page back, you press the same shortcut again, or click restore original in the banner at the top, and every paragraph unfolds back into precisely the text that was there before, in the same place, with your scroll position intact. Condensing is a way of looking at a page, not a change made to it.
One click restores the original page exactly as it was
Try it: the restore link above brings everything right back.
Every tool built on a language model makes a quiet bet about trust, and most of them lose it the first time the model does something confidently wrong. TenWords does not trust the model to count. Every summary that comes back has its words counted in ordinary code. A summary with nine words, or eleven, or one that trails off mid-thought, is sent back with the reason it failed and rewritten. If the second attempt is still wrong, the line is repaired deterministically, in code, so that what reaches your screen is exactly ten words, every time, whether the model cooperated or not.
Counts are checked in code; the model is never trusted
Wrong counts are retried with the reason that they failed.
Anything still off gets fixed deterministically; ten is always literal.
Speed matters, because the whole point is getting time back. Paragraphs are sent in batches of forty, up to four batches in flight at once, and summaries stream onto the page as each batch lands rather than waiting for the slowest one. In practice a ten-thousand-word article, the kind that fills twelve screens of scrolling, condenses in about thirty seconds, and the cost of the underlying model calls comes to roughly a tenth of a cent, billed to your own key, visible on your own usage page.
A ten-thousand-word article condenses in about thirty seconds, streamed live
Forty paragraphs per batch stream in, up to four parallel.
With default models a long article costs under a cent.
Here is the launch film, ninety seconds of the extension doing this to a real Wikipedia article with the sound of a quiet piano behind it. The article condenses on camera, unedited, from its full length down to ten-word lines, and then restores itself at the end. Every summary you will see in the frame was produced live by the extension during the recording, counted and enforced the same way it will be on your own pages.
Watch the launch film: one real article, folded and restored
Filmed live on a real article, unedited, no second takes.
Every line in this film is exactly ten words long.
There is no account to create and no server of ours in the middle, because there is nothing we want to know about your reading. You bring your own key from whichever model provider you already trust: Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Kimi, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including one running on your own machine. You paste it into the extension's options page exactly once, and it stays in your browser profile from then on. The text of the pages you condense travels to that provider to be summarized and comes straight back; it is not logged, collected, or seen by anyone else, and there are no analytics of any kind in the extension. What you read is your business.
Your key stays in your browser; no analytics, no middleman
Bring your own key: Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Kimi, or others.
Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint works, even one on your own machine.
Paste it once; text goes only to your chosen provider.
The privacy policy says all of this in plain language.
If any part of this page made you think of a specific article, a specific newsletter, or a specific colleague's emails, that instinct is the entire product. TenWords is in the Chrome Web Store and takes about a minute to set up: install it, open its options, pick your provider, paste your key, and press Alt and T on the longest thing you can find. From then on, every unbearable page on the internet is one keystroke away from being ten words per paragraph.