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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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Paperguide
✓ verifiedPaid
All-in-one research platform for reading, writing and managing papers; high traffic.
286K visits/mo4.1K saves
Pricing
Starter: $9/mo
Pro: $18/mo
Expert: $25/mo
No public pricing
Free: $0/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
Use cases
- →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
- →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.
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