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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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Side Reader
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser extension that adds a PDF viewer/chat sidebar to ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek for reading and querying documents.

341 visits/mo
1.3K visits/mo
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StudyFox
✓ verifiedPaid

AI Chrome extension and dashboard that solves quiz questions in-browser and generates notes, flashcards, and mind maps for students.

3.1K 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
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (limited uploads and file size)
Lifetime: $29 one-time (higher upload limits, capture-and-ask, custom prompts)

No public pricing

Weekly: $2.99/week (3-day free trial)
Monthly: $9.99/mo, billed $119.88/yr (3-day free trial)
Semester: $29.99/4 months, billed $89.97/yr (3-day free trial)
Yearly: $79.99/year (3-day free trial)

Free trial available

Free: $0 (10 AI summaries/mo)
Plus: $10/mo billed yearly (unlimited summaries)
Max: $38/mo billed yearly (bulk actions, model choice)
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
  • Split-screen PDF viewer alongside AI chat
  • Zoom and text-copy tools for PDFs
  • Upload history tracking
  • Capture-and-ask screenshot querying (paid)
  • Custom prompt support (paid)
  • AI-Generated Notes
  • Summarize YouTube videos with AI
  • Podcast to notes AI
  • Meeting notes AI generator
  • Summarize PDFs with AI
  • Quizzes & Flashcards Generation
  • Mind Maps Generation
  • AI Chat with Notes
  • Custom Note Styles
  • Browser extension that solves quiz questions via popup or sidebar
  • Works across major LMS platforms like Canvas, Blackboard, and Moodle
  • AI note taker and lecture note converter
  • AI flashcard and mind map generators
  • PDF, video, and slide summarizers
  • Screenshot or Ctrl+V paste question solving
  • 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
Use cases
  • Understand research papers
  • Study and homework help
  • Review contracts and reports
  • Translate and summarize documents
  • Researchers reading and querying PDFs via AI
  • Students studying documents with AI help
  • Professionals reviewing reports using ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek
  • Summarizing YouTube videos for quick insights
  • Converting lectures and meetings into structured notes
  • Creating flashcards and quizzes from study materials
  • Generating mind maps for complex topics
  • Summarizing research papers efficiently
  • Answering quiz questions live within an LMS platform
  • Turning lecture recordings into structured notes
  • Summarizing long PDFs or videos before an exam
  • Building flashcards and mind maps from course material
  • Building a personal 'second brain'
  • Summarizing long content to save time
  • Chatting with your own saved knowledge
  • Retaining what you read via spaced repetition
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