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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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Gumloop
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No-code platform for building and running AI agents that automate work across data, sales and support tasks.
701K visits/mo
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Paperguide
✓ verifiedPaid
All-in-one research platform for reading, writing and managing papers; high traffic.
286K visits/mo4.1K saves
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AI-Redact
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI PDF redaction tool that auto-detects and permanently removes PII, with a free tier and pay-per-page pricing.
4.8K visits/mo759 saves
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PDF.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Well-known chat-with-PDF tool for summarizing and extracting; strong traffic.
484K visits/mo2.7K saves
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
Pro: $37/month (20k+ credits/month, unlimited seats)
Free: $0/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
Free: $0 (up to 4 pages per PDF, watermarked)
Pay-as-you-go: from $0.13/page (as low as $0.08/page at volume)
Hobby: $0
Pro: $10/mo
Ultimate: $20/user/mo
Enterprise: $30/user/mo
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
- ✦Visual canvas to orchestrate multi-agent workflows
- ✦Prebuilt specialized agents (data, support, CRM, sales)
- ✦Access to many AI models with no vendor lock-in
- ✦Slack, Teams and email agent interaction
- ✦Recurring/scheduled tasks and triggers
- ✦Enterprise security: RBAC, VPC, audit logs, spend controls
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦AI detection of PII, PHI and financial data
- ✦Permanent, irreversible redaction
- ✦OCR for scanned PDFs
- ✦Batch and bulk file processing
- ✦API access and custom integrations
- ✦Files never stored after processing
- ✦Chat with PDF documents
- ✦Summarize PDF content
- ✦Extract information from PDFs
- ✦Source citation for answers
- ✦OCR support
- ✦AI Agents for document analysis
- ✦Capture & Ask feature
- ✦Chatbot widget (add-on)
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
- →Automate data analysis and reporting
- →Triage support tickets and spot patterns
- →Keep a CRM updated and research prospects
- →Deploy AI agents across a team's tools
- →Finding relevant research papers and getting research-backed answers.
- →Analyzing papers faster with accurate data extraction.
- →Generating and polishing academic content using AI.
- →Streamlining citation and reference management.
- →Legal discovery and FOIA redaction
- →HIPAA-compliant healthcare records
- →Government public-records redaction
- →Financial document redaction
- →Analyzing legal documents
- →Summarizing financial reports
- →Extracting key information from books
- →Reviewing scientific papers
- →Understanding user manuals
- →Creating employee training materials
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