- SI Score
- 74/100
- Pricing
- One-Time Purchase
- Free plan
- Not confirmed
- Sign-up required
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What it does
PDF Pals is a native Mac app for chatting with one or more PDFs. It summarizes long documents and returns answers with references to the relevant source pages. Documents stay on your Mac, and you can use your own API key from OpenAI, Azure OpenAI Service, or OpenRouter.
PDF Pals is a Mac app for reading and questioning PDFs. You open one or more files, ask questions in plain language, and the app points back to the pages behind each answer. It supports scanned PDFs and complex forms through OCR. Your documents stay on your Mac, and the app stores your API key in the Apple Keychain. You can bring your own API key or rent one. The pricing page lists a Basic license at $60, a Pro license at $180, and a Team 5 license at $300, each a one-time purchase with lifetime access and one year of updates. The site says no account is required. It does not state whether the software is open source or whether it has an API, so those remain unknown.
- Answers link back to cited source pages
- Documents stay on your Mac, with no file upload or cloud vector database
- Supports scanned PDFs and complex forms with OCR
- Mac only, macOS Ventura 13 or later required
- Requires your own API key or a rented one
- No free plan is stated, only a free trial