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Raycast
✓ verifiedFreemium
A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.
1.1M visits/mo3.4K saves
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Paperguide
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All-in-one research platform for reading, writing and managing papers; high traffic.
286K visits/mo4.1K saves
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Heuristica
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI-powered learning platform that turns sources into concept maps, flashcards, quizzes and summaries with multi-model chat.
89K visits/mo12K saves
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HumanLayer
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding platform and IDE that orchestrates multiple agent sessions and lets teams plug in their own AI subscriptions.
197K visits/mo
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
Free: $0/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
Basic: Free (up to 3 saved concept maps)
Professional: $7.99/mo (unlimited maps, multi-model AI, all features)
No public pricing
Essential: $24.99 / mo
Premium: $39.99 / mo
Ultimate: $59.99 / mo
Core features
- ✦Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
- ✦Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
- ✦Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
- ✦Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
- ✦Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
- ✦Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
- ✦Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦Concept map builder
- ✦Flashcards with spaced repetition
- ✦AI quiz and summary generation
- ✦Import from PDFs, YouTube, websites, PubMed and arXiv
- ✦Multi-model AI chat (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen)
- ✦Cross-format conversion and sharing
- ✦AI coding IDE with agent orchestration
- ✦Run and manage multiple agent sessions
- ✦Task, artifact and collaboration tools
- ✦Bring-your-own AI subscription or API keys
- ✦Cloud-scale agent execution
- ✦AI-powered trading indicators
- ✦Screeners for identifying high-probability setups
- ✦Backtesters for strategy optimization
- ✦AI Backtesting Assistant for automated strategy building
- ✦Community support and educational resources
Use cases
- →Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
- →Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
- →Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
- →Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
- →Finding relevant research papers and getting research-backed answers.
- →Analyzing papers faster with accurate data extraction.
- →Generating and polishing academic content using AI.
- →Streamlining citation and reference management.
- →Visualizing and studying complex topics
- →Turning research sources into study materials
- →Literature review and dissertation prep
- →Shipping code faster with AI agents
- →Coordinating agent work across a team
- →Managing tasks and artifacts in one place
- →Running many parallel agent sessions
- →Automating complicated price action analysis
- →Generating trading signals and detecting reversals
- →Scanning assets for specific trading criteria
- →Backtesting and optimizing trading strategies
- →Building trading strategies with AI assistance
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