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Drop in a PDF, or a whole folder of them.
Private PDF AI, right on your Mac.
Chat with PDFs, make clear summaries, and trace answers back to the page. With Local AI, document inference runs on your Mac instead of a cloud model provider.
Free · macOS 13.5+ · No Collate account required
The AI comes to your PDFs.
Most document tools send content to a cloud model. Collate brings the model to your Mac, so Local AI can read, answer, and summarize without sending document content to a cloud model provider.
How privacy worksLocal inference
No cloud model
Prefer a cloud model? Bring your own key — Collate always shows which mode is on.
Everything you need to understand a PDF.
From PDF to clarity.
No Collate account required. Download a local model once — or bring your own key — then start asking.
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Chat, summarize, and follow citations to the page.
Keep
Save highlights and answers, export anytime.
See it in action.
Document, chat, citations, and highlights — together in one calm workspace.
See Collate for MacRead privately. Think clearly.
Collate is free for Mac. With Local AI it works offline and keeps your documents on your device.