Paraphrase a text when what you wrote is right but the way it reads is not. A message to your landlord came out too blunt, a cover letter runs a page and a half, a work email sounds like a legal notice, or the instructions for a babysitter are too complicated. Paste the text, pick how you want it rewritten and get a new version in the same language.
There are four modes. Shorter aims for about half the length and keeps the facts; if the first try is still too long, the tool takes a second pass. More polite softens the tone without turning it into flattery, which helps with complaints, reminders and refusals. Simpler swaps long sentences and jargon for everyday words, handy when you explain something to a customer or a relative. More formal turns a casual note into something you can send to a bank, a school or an office.
Whatever the mode, the meaning stays. Names, dates, prices, numbers and links are kept as they are, and the tool is set up not to invent facts or promises you didn't write. It works in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and many other languages, and the result stays in the language of the original. To change the language, translate it afterwards.
Rewriting is different from proofreading. If you only want mistakes fixed and your own wording kept, use the grammar checker instead. And if you are rewriting a source for school or work, cite it: changing the words doesn't change who had the idea.
You can paste up to 50,000 characters at a time, about 20 pages. A message takes a few seconds; long texts take a bit more, and Shorter can need an extra pass. AI does the rewriting, so read the result once before you send it, especially when the tone matters.
The text is processed on our server and is not stored there. Each rewritten version is kept in the library in this browser, so you can try two modes on the same text and pick the one that sounds more like you.