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.

No spams. We will send only one email
with the download link.
Fast: Native macOS app with powerful OCR
Secure: Your documents stay in your Mac
Privacy-friendly: Your data is stored locally. No cloud vector database needed.
Flexible: Bring your own API Key or rent one
Chat with PDFs on macOS
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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.
PDF Pals supports multiple API providers: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI Service & OpenRouter.
Smart.
PDF Pals supports scanned PDFs and complex forms using a powerful OCR engine.
Secure.
Your documents stay in your Mac. We never upload your files. PDF Pals stores your API key securely in the Apple Keychain.
Respect Your Privacy.
No in-app analytics. Your training data is stored locally.
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.”

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For Researchers and Academics

Improve your research and academic processes

PDF Pals is an AI research assistant for Mac that helps researchers summarize papers, extract key arguments, compare findings across multiple PDFs, and verify answers against the cited source pages.
For Software Developer

Learn Faster from Technical PDFs

PDF Pals is an AI reading assistant for developers working through technical documentation, specifications, and e-books. Ask focused questions and jump directly to the PDF pages behind each answer.

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No account required. Download the app, set up your API key and you're ready to go.

Frequently asked questions

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