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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
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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
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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
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)
Free: $0
Pro: $35 / month
Team: $599 / month
Enterprise: Custom
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
- ✦Open-source AI knowledge base
- ✦AI-native research agent
- ✦Up to 70% reduction in document-digging time
- ✦REST API and SDKs for custom integrations
- ✦Image Grounding (embedding context from images & diagrams)
- ✦Deep Research (generating insights from thousands of documents)
- ✦Connectors for enterprise data integration
- ✦Visual-first Retrieval and Diagram Intelligence
- ✦Knowledge Graphs
- ✦Support for OSS & On-prem deployments
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
- →Accelerating research for knowledge workers
- →Getting answers from research papers, reports, and company documents
- →Generating insights from large volumes of documents (1000s)
- →Performing search over complex diagrams, schematics, and datasheets
- →Building custom integrations with enterprise data
- →Deploying AI knowledge solutions in regulated industries or at massive scale
- →Proof-of-concept projects for individual developers
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