diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 4ce850f81..524f32edf 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ Trygve Laugstøl, Dmitry Astapov, Clint Adams, Johann Klähn and
 myself.
 
 hledger is a library and set of user tools for working with
-financial data (or anything that can be tracked in an accounting
-ledger.) It is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's
-Ledger. hledger provides command-line, curses and web interfaces,
-and aims to be a reliable, practical tool for daily use.  Given a
-plain text file describing transactions of money or any other
-commodity, it will print the chart of accounts, account balances, or
-just the transactions you're interested in.  It can also help you
-record new transactions, or convert CSV data from your bank.
+financial data (or anything that can be tracked in a double-entry
+accounting ledger.) It is a haskell port and friendly fork of John
+Wiegley's Ledger. hledger provides command-line, curses and web
+interfaces, and aims to be a reliable, practical tool for daily use.
+Given a plain text file describing transactions of money or any
+other commodity, it will print the chart of accounts, account
+balances, or just the transactions you're interested in.  It can
+also help you record new transactions, or convert CSV data from your
+bank.
 
 Home: http://hledger.org
 
diff --git a/hledger-chart/hledger-chart.cabal b/hledger-chart/hledger-chart.cabal
index 5117c94b6..dd59ff3cb 100644
--- a/hledger-chart/hledger-chart.cabal
+++ b/hledger-chart/hledger-chart.cabal
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 name:           hledger-chart
 version: 0.15
 category:       Finance
-synopsis:       A pie chart generator for the hledger accounting tool.
+synopsis:       A pie chart image generator for the hledger accounting tool.
 description:
-                hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's ledger accounting tool.
-                This package generates simple pie chart graphics showing relative account balances.
+                hledger is a library and set of user tools for working
+                with financial data (or anything that can be tracked in a
+                double-entry accounting ledger.) It is a haskell port and
+                friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger. hledger provides
+                command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a
+                reliable, practical tool for daily use.
 
 license:        GPL
 license-file:   LICENSE
diff --git a/hledger-lib/hledger-lib.cabal b/hledger-lib/hledger-lib.cabal
index edbeac00b..b093f9236 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/hledger-lib.cabal
+++ b/hledger-lib/hledger-lib.cabal
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 name:           hledger-lib
 version: 0.15
 category:       Finance
-synopsis:       Reusable types and utilities for the hledger accounting tool and financial apps in general.
+synopsis:       Core data types, parsers and utilities for the hledger accounting tool.
 description:
-                hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's ledger accounting tool.
-                This package provides core data types, parsers and utilities used by the hledger tools.
-                It also aims to be a useful library for building h/ledger-compatible tools or unrelated financial apps in haskell.
+                hledger is a library and set of user tools for working
+                with financial data (or anything that can be tracked in a
+                double-entry accounting ledger.) It is a haskell port and
+                friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger. hledger provides
+                command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a
+                reliable, practical tool for daily use.
 
 license:        GPL
 license-file:   LICENSE
diff --git a/hledger-vty/hledger-vty.cabal b/hledger-vty/hledger-vty.cabal
index 4ba5c5f91..3757341cf 100644
--- a/hledger-vty/hledger-vty.cabal
+++ b/hledger-vty/hledger-vty.cabal
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 name:           hledger-vty
 version: 0.15
 category:       Finance
-synopsis:       A curses-style interface for the hledger accounting tool.
+synopsis:       A curses-style console interface for the hledger accounting tool.
 description:    
-                hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's ledger accounting tool.
-                This package provides a simple curses-style console interface as an alternative to the hledger command line interface.
+                hledger is a library and set of user tools for working
+                with financial data (or anything that can be tracked in a
+                double-entry accounting ledger.) It is a haskell port and
+                friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger. hledger provides
+                command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a
+                reliable, practical tool for daily use.
 
 license:        GPL
 license-file:   LICENSE
diff --git a/hledger-web/hledger-web.cabal b/hledger-web/hledger-web.cabal
index df8f3f7d9..b23f7aa9a 100644
--- a/hledger-web/hledger-web.cabal
+++ b/hledger-web/hledger-web.cabal
@@ -3,8 +3,12 @@ version: 0.15
 category:       Finance
 synopsis:       A web interface for the hledger accounting tool.
 description:    
-                hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's ledger accounting tool.
-                This package provides a web interface as an alternative to the hledger command line interface.
+                hledger is a library and set of user tools for working
+                with financial data (or anything that can be tracked in a
+                double-entry accounting ledger.) It is a haskell port and
+                friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger. hledger provides
+                command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a
+                reliable, practical tool for daily use.
 
 license:        GPL
 license-file:   LICENSE
diff --git a/hledger/hledger.cabal b/hledger/hledger.cabal
index c4054c2bd..45b745c91 100644
--- a/hledger/hledger.cabal
+++ b/hledger/hledger.cabal
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 name:           hledger
 version: 0.15
 category:       Finance
-synopsis:       A robust command-line accounting tool with a simple human-editable data format, similar to ledger.
+synopsis:       The main command-line interface for the hledger accounting tool.
 description:
-                hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's ledger accounting tool.
-                This package provides the main hledger command-line tool; see the other hledger-* packages for web and curses interfaces and chart generation.
-                hledger aims to be a reliable, practical financial reporting tool for day-to-day use, and also a useful library for building financial apps in haskell.
-                Given a plain text file describing transactions, of money or any other commodity, hledger will print the chart of accounts, account balances, or transactions you're interested in.
-                It can also help you add transactions to the journal file, or convert CSV data from your bank.
+                hledger is a library and set of user tools for working
+                with financial data (or anything that can be tracked in a
+                double-entry accounting ledger.) It is a haskell port and
+                friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger. hledger provides
+                command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a
+                reliable, practical tool for daily use.
 
 license:        GPL
 license-file:   LICENSE