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Pickaxe
✓ verifiedFreemium
No-code platform to build, share and monetize custom AI-powered tools; solid adoption.
57K 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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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
Pricing
Free plan: $0/month
Gold plan: $23/month
Pro plan: $77/month
+250 credits/mo: $5
+500 credits/mo: $10
+2500 credits/mo: $50
Free: $0/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
No public pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦No-code AI app builder
- ✦Embeddable AI tools
- ✦AI model training
- ✦AI tool sharing and management
- ✦Prompt engineering integration
- ✦AI Studio creation
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Creating and embedding GPT-4 apps in websites
- →Training AI on specific expertise using documents and data
- →Building AI tools for online courses, online stores, dashboards, and blogs
- →Automating tasks in Google Sheets
- →Coding qualitative data
- →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.
- →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.
- →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
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