Stop wasting hours reading PDFs
PDF Pals is a native AI PDF assistant for Mac. Chat with PDFs, summarize long documents, and verify answers against cited source pages.
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What is PDF Pals?
Gain insights from your documents. Instantly.
PDF Pals is a native AI PDF assistant for Mac. Open one or multiple PDFs, ask questions in plain language, and get answers with references to the relevant source pages. Your documents stay on your Mac, with no file upload or cloud vector database required.
- Native, Fast & Powerful
- Not another 500MB Electron app. No file size limit!
- Flexible.
- Use local models, or your own API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter and more. Ollama and LM Studio work too.
- Smart.
- PDF Pals supports scanned PDFs and complex forms using a powerful OCR engine.
- Secure.
- Your documents stay on your Mac. We never upload your files. PDF Pals stores your API keys securely in the Apple Keychain.
- Respect Your Privacy.
- Your library is stored locally and never used to train AI. Crash reports and analytics are optional.
- Easy to backup.
- All your data is in a local SQLite database.
5 out of 5 stars
“ PDF Pals is a great way to interact with multiple PDFs simultaneously on your local device. It's super-helpful when you need the ability to summarize information from multiple documents about a single topic. The ability to customize the AI model settings and the system prompt is also very useful.”
Improve your research and academic processes
Simplify Legal Document Review and Analysis
PDF Pals is an AI document assistant for legal professionals who review contracts, case files, and long legal PDFs. Ask questions, extract key details, and follow each answer back to its source.
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People l💙ve PDF Pals
I've tried a few different PDF chat apps because it's such an effective way to interact with Docs. This one is now my go-to because it has features that you can't find elsewhere so it really is a cut above the rest. Add to that I like developers that are willing to interact with their users and actively look to improve the overall experience. As an early adopter it's been a pleasure to see it take form into a must have app...
@daniel_nguyenx This app keeps getting better. I use it daily! Keep up the good work
@daniel_nguyenx this is amazing Daniel, love it!
PDF Pals is a great way to interact with multiple PDFs simultaneously on your local device. It's super-helpful when you need the ability to summarize information from multiple documents about a single topic. The ability to customize the AI model settings and the system prompt is also very useful.
I'm thoroughly enjoying PDFPals based on my tests today. It's functioning flawlessly!
@daniel_nguyenx Damn, this makes perfect sense. I’m already used to download & open pdfs using a Mac app anyway. This can just replace my default pdf app with AI chat features 🤯
I’ve been using Daniels products for the longest time now. KTool impressed me as the best solution for sedning articles to Kindle, BoltAI is (in my oppinion) the best AI integration for Mac, and PDFPals is no different. With it’s slick UI, local indexing, multi-PDF support and amazing speed, it is truly the best way to chat with and analyze a PDF, all without a single subscription! Highly recommend.
@daniel_nguyenx This is damm cool
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No account required. Download the app, pick a local model or add your API key, and you're ready to go.
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