Why ZenCopy?

Say you have a long text to read. Staring it down is one option. But these days, many of us hand it to an AI for a summary.

The usual eight steps

Doesn’t that go like this?

1. Copy the long text
2. Remember how to open your AI — “right, the browser… I bookmarked it somewhere…”
3. Open the AI’s window
4. Wait for it to appear — longer than you’d think
5. Work out what to ask — “it’s long, so… a summary”
6. Put the ask into words — “Summarize the following in three lines”
7. Paste the text you copied
8. Send

None of these is hard. But lined up, that is a real toll you pay every single time.

With ZenCopy, one step

1. Copy the long text and press C once more

That’s all. The difference from an ordinary copy is a single C. No remembering where the AI lives, no composing the ask, no pasting. The hand that copies is the hand that calls the AI.

ZenCopy works on top of any app. In the browser, in Slack, in a PDF viewer — it is always the same Ctrl/⌘ + C + C.

Summarizing is only the beginning

Four prompts come built in.

Summarize

Distill a long text to its essence, in one sentence.

Explain

Make hard terms and passages understandable.

Translate

Turn text in any language into English.

Polish

Turn a rough chat reply or a half-written email into something you can send.

Switching takes an instant: click a name in the popup, or press a single number key. Continuing from before, pressing 2 switches to Explain:

You can also decide which prompt runs first for each kind of copy — text, image, or file.

Add prompts of your own

Of course you can. Write one line about what you want done, and the AI drafts the prompt for you. Summon your best prompts with the least effort.

And the conversation continues

When the answer arrives, the field beneath it continues the conversation with the AI, right there. When you want to ask an AI, copy twice. That is the whole method.

Getting startedFrom install to your first double copy in ten minutes.