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Raycast
✓ verifiedFreemium

A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.

1.1M visits/mo3.4K saves
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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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Interview Coder
✓ verifiedFreemium

Undetectable desktop AI assistant that feeds real-time answers during coding and technical interviews.

167K visits/mo
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TimeSkip
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Chrome extension that auto-generates SEO-optimized YouTube chapter timestamps and metadata in seconds for creators and podcasters.

131K visits/mo
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Pro: $19/month (15 videos/month, 90-minute max video length)
Studio: $39/month (50 videos/month, 10-hour max video length)
Lifetime: $399 one-time, discounted from $798 (unlimited videos)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
  • Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
  • Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
  • Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
  • Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
  • Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
  • Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
  • 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
  • Real-time AI answers during technical interviews
  • Invisible to screen sharing and recording
  • Hidden from dock, tray and activity monitor
  • Click-through overlay
  • Live audio capture and transcription
  • Lifetime unlimited access license
  • One-click chapter generation inside the YouTube player
  • Chapters for videos up to several hours in under a minute
  • Auto-suggested titles, descriptions and tags
  • Thumbnail download helper
  • Copy-paste chapters straight into video descriptions
  • Lifetime one-time purchase option
Use cases
  • Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
  • Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
  • Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
  • Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
  • Understand research papers
  • Study and homework help
  • Review contracts and reports
  • Translate and summarize documents
  • Getting live help on coding interview problems
  • Answering technical questions in real time
  • Avoiding detection during screen-shared interviews
  • Podcasters and webinar hosts adding chapters to long recordings
  • Marketing agencies producing chaptered videos for clients
  • Creators improving YouTube/Google search discoverability
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