Distl
Distl — The useful part, brought forward.
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Distl is a Chrome extension that turns long articles, emails, AI replies, PDFs, and documents into clear, useful takeaways. Select the text you want to understand, and Distl brings forward the key point, next step, or decision without making you leave the page. It keeps the original context available, so you can move quickly without losing the details that matter. Built for anyone who spends too much time searching through text to find the part worth acting on.
PH · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views
Niche: ai text summarization and editing tools · 40 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Browser Extensions
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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More like this: all 40 launches in ai text summarization and editing tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a browser extension that captures highlighted text and sends it to an LLM endpoint for inline summarization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 103 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 104 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 284 days after the earliest competitor.
- Page TL;DR · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Babel · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Better Twitter · ph · 2026-09-17 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- K-TL;DR · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Quire · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Wispro for Chrome · ph · 2026-09-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Diffswarm · hn · 2026-01-06 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- RapidUtil · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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