Collate
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Free, local-first Mac app that chats with and summarizes your PDFs entirely on-device for full privacy.
What it does
Collate is a free, local-first AI app for Mac that lets you ask questions about your PDFs, get instant summaries, and extract insights. Everything runs on-device with no cloud uploads, so documents stay private. A Windows version is on a waitlist.
Core features
Local, on-device processing (no internet needed)
Chat with your PDF documents
Instant document summaries
Insight extraction from long PDFs
Import files or whole folders
Export answers and summaries to notes
Best for
→Privately analyzing sensitive PDFs
→Summarizing long documents
→Asking questions across your files
→Extracting key points for notes