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ChatSlide
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI presentation maker that turns documents into editable slide decks, plus videos, avatars, and social posts.
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Arena
✓ verifiedFreemium
Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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ChatPDF.ae
✓ verifiedFreemium
Web tool to chat with, summarize and extract insights from PDFs in any language, powered by ChatGPT, with a free daily tier.
1.5K visits/mo16K 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
Free: $0 (100 credits, PDF export)
Plus: $14.90/mo (500 credits/mo, 20 slides)
Pro: $19.90/mo (2,500 credits/mo, PPTX/Keynote)
Ultimate: $59.90/mo (unlimited credits)
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
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Core features
- ✦Document-to-slides generation
- ✦Chat-based slide editing
- ✦25+ AI image models including DALL-E 3 and Flux
- ✦500+ AI avatars with voice cloning in 28+ languages
- ✦Export to PPTX, PDF, Keynote and MP4
- ✦Domain templates for healthcare, education, legal and research
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦Chat with uploaded PDFs
- ✦Summarize and extract insights
- ✦Multi-language questions and answers
- ✦Cited answers from the document
- ✦Secure cloud storage with deletion control
- ✦pdf chat
- ✦pdf summarizer
- ✦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
- →Turning notes or PDFs into presentations
- →Creating narrated avatar videos
- →Building course and marketing content
- →Clinical/CME and lecture decks
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Understand research papers and articles
- →Review contracts and business reports
- →Study from course materials
- →Talk with your books in a new way! PDF Summarizer lets you have back-and-forth chats with your books, making reading more fun and lively.
- →Make research easier with PDF Summarizer. Work together better and share what you know by simply chatting with scientific papers.
- →No more boring number work! Chat with your financial reports using PDF Summarizer and get quick answers just when you need them.
- →Not sure how to set up your device? Chat with the user manual through PDF Summarizer for quick, helpful guidance to get you started right away.
- →Stop struggling with hard-to-read legal terms! With PDF Summarizer, you can easily understand and talk about legal documents.
- →Make training more fun! PDF Summarizer turns training materials into chat partners, so learning feels as simple as talking with someone who knows the answers.
- →Quickly grasping long articles
- →Skimming YouTube videos for key points
- →Summarizing PDFs for study or work
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