Text simplifier
Rewrite for the person who has to understand it
Pick a reader, from a child to a specialist. This text simplifier rewrites only the passages that are too hard for them, explains the terms they will meet, and keeps every condition, deadline and number.
6 free pages a month. No card.
Made for
- Contracts, terms and policies your customers have to follow
- Letters from a bank, an insurer or the government
- Papers, reports and docs for readers outside the field
Before and after
Example: 49 → 56 words · 1 term explained · every fact kept
Original
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, the Lessee shall, within thirty (30) days of receipt of written notification from the Lessor, remit all outstanding amounts, including accrued interest at a rate of 1.5% per month, failing which the Lessor may, at its sole discretion, terminate this Agreement forthwith.
Result
If the Lessor (the owner who rents the property to you) sends you a written notice, you must pay everything you owe within 30 days.
This includes interest of 1.5% per month on any late amount.
If you do not pay in time, the Lessor may end this agreement straight away. The Lessor decides this alone.
- Kept: 30 days
- Kept: 1.5% per month
- Kept: written notice
- Kept: sole discretion
- Explained: Lessor
How Simplify works
Step 01
Every passage is rated
On one six-step scale for every language, from very simple to expert, and checked for unexplained terms and instructions that read two ways.
Step 02
Only hard passages change
Passages already at your reader's level stay word for word.
Step 03
Terms are explained, not removed
A term the reader will meet elsewhere stays, with a short plain explanation the first time.
Step 04
Meaning is checked
Every must, may, unless, deadline and number has to survive, or the passage keeps its original words.
Options
- Reader
- General audience, customers, patients, second-language readers, young readers, newcomers, decision-makers or specialists, or describe your own.
- Level
- Very simple (A1) to expert (C2); simpler or more precise.
- Write in
- Keep the language, or translate while simplifying.
From code, terminal or agent
# REST API
curl https://readable.md/api/v1/transform \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $READABLE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "tool": "simplify", "text": "…", "audience": "customers" }'
# Command line
readable simplify letter.pdf --audience customers
# MCP tool: simplifyQuestions
- Does it make text shorter?
- Sometimes longer: a hard sentence often becomes two plain ones, and terms get a short explanation. Use Shorten to cut length.
- Can it go the other way?
- Yes. Pick the expert level and plain text becomes more precise and compact for specialists.
- What if a sentence can be read two ways?
- It is not resolved by guessing: the passage keeps the wording and you see “Unclear in the original” with the question to ask the author.
