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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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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium

Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.

1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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wuko
✓ verifiedFree

Beta email tool that summarizes any web page, PDF, or YouTube link and lets you ask follow-up questions entirely by email.

2.6K visits/mo29K saves
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AskVideo.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

Lets you chat with any YouTube video for timestamped answers, best for learners and researchers skipping long watch time.

20K visits/mo20K saves
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anse
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Extensible UI for AI chats supporting OpenAI and Replicate.

2.2K visits/mo
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (100 AI messages/mo)
Premium: $8/mo (1,000 messages)
Pro: $29/mo (2,500 messages)
Business: $99/mo (8,000 messages)

No public pricing

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
  • Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
  • Summaries with cited sources
  • Multi-file chats via folders
  • Any-language upload and chat
  • Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
  • No-signup quick start
  • Email-a-URL workflow to get an AI summary back
  • Reply-based follow-up Q&A on the summarized content
  • Works on web pages, PDF links, and YouTube videos
  • Responds in the language you write in, independent of source language
  • Chrome extension for prefilled summary-request emails
  • Shareable insight threads via email
  • Q&A on any YouTube video
  • Answers cited with timestamps
  • Video and audio upload transcription
  • Command-line interface
  • Cross-video search and collections
  • Embeddable chatbot widget
  • Built-in support for OpenAI and Replicate
  • Easy to extend
  • Optimized UI for AI Chats
  • Customizable settings for different AI platforms
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
  • Understand research papers
  • Study and homework help
  • Review contracts and reports
  • Translate and summarize documents
  • Readers wanting quick digests of long articles
  • Researchers extracting insights from PDFs without uploading files
  • Multilingual readers getting gist of foreign-language content
  • Users preferring email workflows over installing new apps
  • Studying lectures interactively
  • Extracting insights from webinars
  • Getting steps from tutorials
  • Searching across a playlist or channel
  • Getting answers from AI platforms like OpenAI and Replicate through a user-friendly interface.
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