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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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SlideSpeak AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI platform that converts PDFs, Word, Excel, or text into editable native PowerPoint decks with an in-app AI assistant.
765K visits/mo26K 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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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/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
Free: $0 (100 credits at sign-up, 50MB file size limit)
Premium: $29/month (1,000 credits/month, no file size limit)
Custom template add-on: $129 one-time
No public pricing
Starter: $9/mo
Pro: $18/mo
Expert: $25/mo
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦Generate presentations from PDF, Word, Excel, website, or text input
- ✦AI assistant 'Charles' for rewriting, summarizing, and image generation
- ✦AI-narrated video presentations with 50+ voices
- ✦Automatic brand styling with custom templates
- ✦Multi-language translation preserving slide layout
- ✦API for programmatic presentation generation
- ✦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
- ✦Access to multiple AI models (GPT-4, Claude 3, Mixtral)
- ✦PDF analysis
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦AI data scientist
- ✦AI visualizations
- ✦Music composition
- ✦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
- →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.
- →Turning a report or spec document into a client-ready deck
- →Summarizing long PowerPoint or PDF files
- →Producing narrated video versions of a presentation
- →Applying consistent branding across many decks
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Chat with PDF documents to get instant insights
- →Turn data into easy-to-understand visuals
- →Create high-quality images with AI
- →Manage tasks more efficiently with AI assistance
- →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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