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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
760K visits/mo
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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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Recall
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI knowledge base that saves, summarizes and connects articles, videos, podcasts and PDFs into a graph you can chat with.

152K visits/mo1.5K saves
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elium.com
✓ verifiedPaid

Enterprise AI knowledge-management platform for building a governed, searchable company knowledge hub teams actually use.

26K visits/mo
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month

Free trial available

Starter: $9/mo
Pro: $18/mo
Expert: $25/mo

No public pricing

Free: $0 (10 AI summaries/mo)
Plus: $10/mo billed yearly (unlimited summaries)
Max: $38/mo billed yearly (bulk actions, model choice)
Team: 15€/user/mo billed yearly
Corporate: 20€/user/mo billed yearly

Free trial available

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
  • Access to multiple AI models (GPT-4, Claude 3, Mixtral)
  • PDF analysis
  • AI image generation
  • AI data scientist
  • AI visualizations
  • Music composition
  • 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
  • One-click saving of articles, videos, podcasts, PDFs
  • AI summaries of saved content
  • Automatic tagging and knowledge-graph linking
  • Chat with your knowledge using GPT, Claude or Gemini
  • Spaced-repetition quizzes
  • Browser extension, web and mobile apps; API/MCP access
  • AI-powered search and answers
  • Content approval and expiration workflows
  • Multi-language sharing with AI translation
  • Templates and rich content creation
  • Microsoft, Slack, Google Drive integrations
  • ISO 27001 security, EU hosting, GDPR
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
  • 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
  • Understand research papers
  • Study and homework help
  • Review contracts and reports
  • Translate and summarize documents
  • Building a personal 'second brain'
  • Summarizing long content to save time
  • Chatting with your own saved knowledge
  • Retaining what you read via spaced repetition
  • Central company knowledge base
  • Customer support and IT service desk
  • Onboarding and knowledge retention
  • Market watch and user insights
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