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Audeus
✓ verifiedFreemium
Text-to-speech reader that turns PDFs, docs, and web pages into natural audio with highlighting, on web and mobile.
54K visits/mo21K saves
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Macaron AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Personal AI agent that builds custom mini-apps and tools on request and remembers your preferences to help with daily life.
184K visits/mo
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Paperguide
✓ verifiedPaid
All-in-one research platform for reading, writing and managing papers; high traffic.
286K visits/mo4.1K saves
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Dia Browser
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI web browser for macOS that reads your tabs and connected apps to brief you, synthesize info and answer questions across your work.
630K visits/mo845 saves
Pricing
Free: $0/mo (limited uploads and Pro voices)
Pro: $9.92/mo (billed annually)
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No public pricing
Free: $0/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Natural AI voices for reading aloud
- ✦Supports PDF, Word, EPUB, and web pages
- ✦Synchronized text highlighting
- ✦Highlighting and annotation tools
- ✦Adjustable playback speed up to 3.5x
- ✦Apps for web, iOS, Android, and Chrome
- ✦AI Chatbot powered by ChatGPT, GPT-4o & Gemini
- ✦Available on multiple platforms (Web, iPhone, Apple Watch, macOS, Android)
- ✦Humanlike responses
- ✦Homework assistance
- ✦Proofreading
- ✦AI Writing Assistant
- ✦Personal AI agent for daily life
- ✦Deep Memory that remembers user preferences
- ✦Builds custom tools and mini-apps on request
- ✦Personality test for personalization
- ✦Mobile app
- ✦Content and template library
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦AI that reasons across open tabs and connected apps
- ✦Morning Brief of calendar, inbox and links
- ✦Synthesis into reports and decks
- ✦Split view and organised tab groups
- ✦Work and personal profiles
- ✦Privacy controls with end-to-end encrypted Sync
Use cases
- →Listen to study material and documents
- →Boost focus for auditory learners
- →Read web articles hands-free
- →Get through reading backlog while multitasking
- →Get help with homework, from essays and compositions to math questions.
- →Proofread written work to create professional-grade documents.
- →Get personalized help with any writing project, from essays to social media posts.
- →Act as a travel agent.
- →Getting personalized help with daily tasks
- →Generating small custom tools on demand
- →Building an AI that remembers your context
- →Creative writing and story generation
- →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.
- →Summarising and synthesising work context
- →Starting the day with an agenda brief
- →Answering questions across tools and tabs
- →Separating work and personal browsing
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