Collate - Offline AI workspace for PDFs on your Mac
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Chat with PDFs, generate summaries, and extract insights entirely offline on your Mac. No internet required, unlimited usage, completely private. Download free.
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Hi everyone 👋,
I built Collate because I wanted a simple, private way to work with PDFs without sending my data to the cloud. Most AI tools today are online, limited, and often come with subscriptions. Collate flips that model: it’s an offline AI workspace for your PDFs — fast, private, and unlimited.
With Collate you can:
• Instantly summarize, read, and chat with PDFs directly on your Mac.
• See highlights + citations inside the document.
• Track your progress so you don’t miss important sections.
• Share insights or full summaries with one click.
Everything runs locally — your data never leaves your device.
I’d love your feedback, ideas, and feature requests 🙏. If you try it, let me know how Collate helps you!
— Vel
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This is absolutely amazing! A great project. An immediate feature request would be to allow users to use local Ollama models that they have downloaded to be come the AI model that will integrate with the app's tools. It still keeps it local, but gives the user a bit more flexibility on which model to use. Great job guys!
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@aavirash_mitra thanks for your feedback! Will definitely consider your request for future launches!
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Hi everyone 👋,
I built Collate because I wanted a simple, private way to work with PDFs without sending my data to the cloud. Most AI tools today are online, limited, and often come with subscriptions. Collate flips that model: it’s an offline AI workspace for your PDFs — fast, private, and unlimited.
With Collate you can:
• Instantly summarize, read, and chat with PDFs directly on your Mac.
• See highlights + citations inside the document.
• Track your progress so you don’t miss important sections.
• Share insights or full summaries with one click.
Everything runs locally — your data never leaves your device.
I’d love your feedback, ideas, and feature requests 🙏. If you try it, let me know how Collate helps you!
— Vel
This is absolutely amazing! A great project.
An immediate feature request would be to allow users to use local Ollama models that they have downloaded to be come the AI model that will integrate with the app's tools. It still keeps it local, but gives the user a bit more flexibility on which model to use.
Great job guys!
@aavirash_mitra thanks for your feedback! Will definitely consider your request for future launches!