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Ello
✓ verifiedFreemium

Adaptive AI reading and math tutor for children ages 4-9 that listens and adjusts lessons in real time.

1.1K visits/mo
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wuko
✓ verifiedFree

Beta email tool that summarizes any web page, PDF, or YouTube link and lets you ask follow-up questions entirely by email.

2.6K visits/mo29K saves
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AI ChatDocs
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chat-with-documents tool that summarizes and answers questions across PDFs, Office files, websites and YouTube; free tier plus plans.

2.4K visits/mo
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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
Pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Starter: $9.99/mo (250 messages/30 days)
Pro: $29.99/mo (1,000 messages)
Business: $49.99/mo (2,000 messages)
Free: $0/mo (limited uploads and file size)
Lifetime: $29 one-time (higher upload limits, capture-and-ask, custom prompts)
Core features
  • Real-time AI listening and adaptation
  • Interactive reading and math curriculum
  • Create-your-own books
  • Science of Reading-aligned library
  • Parent progress reports
  • Child safety filters
  • Email-a-URL workflow to get an AI summary back
  • Reply-based follow-up Q&A on the summarized content
  • Works on web pages, PDF links, and YouTube videos
  • Responds in the language you write in, independent of source language
  • Chrome extension for prefilled summary-request emails
  • Shareable insight threads via email
  • Chat with PDFs and Office documents
  • Website, sitemap and YouTube ingestion
  • Automated summaries and Q&A
  • Reference and quote extraction
  • Multi-document conversations
  • Chat history and workspaces
  • 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)
Use cases
  • Helping young children learn to read
  • Building early math skills
  • Supporting struggling or advanced readers
  • Giving parents visibility into progress
  • Readers wanting quick digests of long articles
  • Researchers extracting insights from PDFs without uploading files
  • Multilingual readers getting gist of foreign-language content
  • Users preferring email workflows over installing new apps
  • Research and literature review
  • Legal document analysis
  • Document summarization and Q&A
  • Project knowledge lookup
  • Researchers reading and querying PDFs via AI
  • Students studying documents with AI help
  • Professionals reviewing reports using ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek
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