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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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AskVideo.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Lets you chat with any YouTube video for timestamped answers, best for learners and researchers skipping long watch time.
20K visits/mo20K saves
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Inbox Zero
✓ verifiedFree trial
Open-source AI email assistant that auto-labels mail, drafts replies in your voice and helps clear your inbox from web or Slack.
68K visits/mo1.6K saves
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Gist AI
✓ verifiedFree
Free Chrome extension, powered by ChatGPT, that summarizes web pages, YouTube videos and PDFs in one click.
4.2K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (100 AI messages/mo)
Premium: $8/mo (1,000 messages)
Pro: $29/mo (2,500 messages)
Business: $99/mo (8,000 messages)
Starter: $18/user/mo
Plus: $28/user/mo
Professional: $42/user/mo
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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
- ✦Q&A on any YouTube video
- ✦Answers cited with timestamps
- ✦Video and audio upload transcription
- ✦Command-line interface
- ✦Cross-video search and collections
- ✦Embeddable chatbot widget
- ✦Automatic email labeling and categorization
- ✦Pre-drafted replies in your voice
- ✦Bulk unsubscribe and archive
- ✦Auto-files attachments to Drive/OneDrive
- ✦Works from web, Slack and Telegram
- ✦Open-source and self-hostable, SOC 2 Type 2
- ✦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
- ✦One-click summaries for web pages, YouTube and PDFs
- ✦Powered by ChatGPT
- ✦'Read More' deep-dive into sources
- ✦Jump to relevant YouTube segments
- ✦Summarize local and online PDFs
- ✦No length restriction
Use cases
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Studying lectures interactively
- →Extracting insights from webinars
- →Getting steps from tutorials
- →Searching across a playlist or channel
- →Reaching inbox zero quickly
- →Drafting replies faster
- →Cleaning up subscriptions
- →Managing email without switching apps
- →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
- →Quickly grasping long articles
- →Skimming YouTube videos for key points
- →Summarizing PDFs for study or work
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