PDF Pals Help Center

PDF Pals answers questions about your documents and cites the page each answer comes from. Your documents stay on your Mac.

Start here

1. Install PDF Pals.
2. Used PDF Pals before? Import your Classic documents.
3. Start your first chat.

Using PDF Pals

• Supported files and Send to PDF Pals from any app
• Chats and citations and reading documents
• Prompts and voice input and Read Aloud
• Library, tags and search
• Local mode and local models and scanned PDFs and OCR
• Privacy and your data
• Customize PDF Pals and keyboard shortcuts

AI providers

• Use your own API key: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter and others.
• Azure OpenAI and Ollama, LM Studio and custom servers.
• Chat context limit.

License and billing

• Plans, updates and renewals, and moving a license to another Mac.
• Setapp and Mac App Store.
• Refunds and student discounts.

Something not working? See troubleshooting.