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Raycast
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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
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
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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
- ✦Automated AWS cost optimization
- ✦Commitment management (Reserved Instances & Savings Plans)
- ✦Cost allocation and chargebacks
- ✦Kubernetes cost management
- ✦Resource rightsizing and scheduling
- ✦Idle resource optimization
- ✦Real-time cost visibility
- ✦Unlimited chatbots deployment
- ✦Automatic retraining on webpages
- ✦Customizable appearance and personality
- ✦One-click deployment to multiple platforms
- ✦User Management
- ✦Custom APIs
- ✦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
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
- →Reducing AWS costs for startups and enterprises
- →Optimizing EKS and ASG scalability and discounts
- →Maximizing Savings Plans and mitigating commitment risk
- →Automating time-consuming cost optimization tasks
- →Allocating AWS, Kubernetes, GenAI & SaaS costs
- →Customer service chatbots
- →Help desk chatbots
- →HR chatbots
- →Training chatbots
- →Consulting chatbots
- →White labeled chatbot for web apps
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
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