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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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1min.AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Bundles many AI models for chat, writing, image, audio and video into one affordable credit-based app.

662K visits/mo
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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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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
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AI-Redact
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI PDF redaction tool that auto-detects and permanently removes PII, with a free tier and pay-per-page pricing.

4.8K visits/mo759 saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (450K credits)
Pro: $6.5/mo (1M credits)
Business: $10/mo (2M credits)
Enterprise: $7/member/mo (2M credits/member)
Free: $0 (10 AI summaries/mo)
Plus: $10/mo billed yearly (unlimited summaries)
Max: $38/mo billed yearly (bulk actions, model choice)
Pro (with AI): $8/month

Free trial available

Free: $0 (up to 4 pages per PDF, watermarked)
Pay-as-you-go: from $0.13/page (as low as $0.08/page at volume)
Core features
  • 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
  • AI chat across multiple models
  • AI writing and copy tools
  • Image generation, upscaling and editing
  • Document analysis and chat
  • Audio and video generation
  • Shared, rollover credit system
  • 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
  • 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
  • AI detection of PII, PHI and financial data
  • Permanent, irreversible redaction
  • OCR for scanned PDFs
  • Batch and bulk file processing
  • API access and custom integrations
  • Files never stored after processing
Use cases
  • Understand research papers
  • Study and homework help
  • Review contracts and reports
  • Translate and summarize documents
  • Producing marketing and social content
  • Generating and enhancing images
  • Summarizing and querying documents
  • Brainstorming with multiple AI assistants
  • Building a personal 'second brain'
  • Summarizing long content to save time
  • Chatting with your own saved knowledge
  • Retaining what you read via spaced repetition
  • 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
  • Legal discovery and FOIA redaction
  • HIPAA-compliant healthcare records
  • Government public-records redaction
  • Financial document redaction
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