Speed read complex PDFs with AI popups and AI chat. As you read, highlight anything you don't understand for a GPT-powered explainer. Or use Claude to chat with multiple PDFs and get links back to sources. Designed with love in π½NYC to be β‘ lightning fast.
Hey everyone π, I'm Jacob, founder of Macro (macro.com). We're building a new suite of AI editors for common document formats like PDF.
π My background is in AI research and I read lots of papers, so I'm excited to show you Macro PDF: the best way to speed-read papers!
π Our unique feature is the "AI Popup": just highlight some text and hit "Explain" or "Bullet Points" or "Translate" to call AI inline without leaving your page. AI popups help me quickly understand complex papers while keeping me in flow.
π My favorite feature β this is a simple one β is the ability to CMD+K to search and switch between papers I've read instead having 47 tabs open.
π Our most powerful feature: chat with PDFs split-screen and get citations back to the sections it references. I recommend using Claude for smart answers, Grok for hot takes, or Gemini with its 2M token context window for asking questions of dozens of PDFs at once.
Our generous free plan will get you started! Let me know in the comments what you think or how we can make it better :)
About Macro PDF on Product Hunt
βUnderstand complex papers instantlyβ
Macro PDF launched on Product Hunt on March 5th, 2025 and earned 226 upvotes and 19 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Speed read complex PDFs with AI popups and AI chat. As you read, highlight anything you don't understand for a GPT-powered explainer. Or use Claude to chat with multiple PDFs and get links back to sources. Designed with love in π½NYC to be β‘ lightning fast.
On the analytics side, Macro PDF competes within Education β topics that collectively have 78.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Macro PDF performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Macro PDF?
Macro PDF was hunted by Kevin William David. A βhunterβ on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform β uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Kevin William David
Hey everyone π, I'm Jacob, founder of Macro (macro.com). We're building a new suite of AI editors for common document formats like PDF.
π My background is in AI research and I read lots of papers, so I'm excited to show you Macro PDF: the best way to speed-read papers!
π Our unique feature is the "AI Popup": just highlight some text and hit "Explain" or "Bullet Points" or "Translate" to call AI inline without leaving your page. AI popups help me quickly understand complex papers while keeping me in flow.
π My favorite feature β this is a simple one β is the ability to CMD+K to search and switch between papers I've read instead having 47 tabs open.
π Our most powerful feature: chat with PDFs split-screen and get citations back to the sections it references. I recommend using Claude for smart answers, Grok for hot takes, or Gemini with its 2M token context window for asking questions of dozens of PDFs at once.
Our generous free plan will get you started! Let me know in the comments what you think or how we can make it better :)