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Quincy is a Mac PDF reader for working through dense documents: ask the page questions, summarize sections, quiz yourself, take notes, and read selected text aloud.

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in...

About A beautiful and local

Quincy is a Mac PDF reader for working through dense documents: ask the page questions, summarize sections, quiz yourself, take notes, and read selected text aloud. Quincy helps you get through dense PDFs and actually enjoy it. Ask the page questions, summarize and quiz yourself, listen to passages aloud, and earn badges and streaks that turn every reading session into progress. Stay motivated Badges, streaks, and levels make every reading session count. Works on any PDF Copies real text, or uses on-device OCR for scans.

About Trace

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in dozens of languages. The moment is pinned to your transcript at the exact timestamp. Trace provides you with clear markdown transcripts and summaries that you can use anywhere. Either copy the markdown from Trace directly or have it place the file anywhere in your filesystem. Trace can also send files directly to Obsidian, Bear, Drafts or Things with a button press.