AskYourPDF vs Totoy

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan: AskYourPDF has one; Totoy prices on request
Public API: AskYourPDF has one; not confirmed by us for Totoy
Higher Trust score: AskYourPDF — 89 vs 79 for Totoy
Best fit: AskYourPDF: Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages · Totoy: Readers who need official letters explained in a language they actually read
Platforms: AskYourPDF: Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension · Totoy: iOS, Android, Web

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbots

TotoyPhotograph an official letter and get it explained in your own language — now sold as custom AI builds

Side by side

Fact	AskYourPDF	Totoy
Category	PDF Tools	Chat with Documents & PDF
Pricing model	Freemium	Contact
Starts at	$11.99/mo	—
Public API	Yes	Not confirmed
Trust score	89 / 100	79 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API	iOS, Android, Web
Company	Protonlabs Technology Inc.	Totoy
Launched	2023	—
Last verified	Oct 25, 2026	Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

AskYourPDF

A sensible pick when the job is repeatable question-answering across a document library rather than one clever answer, and the embeddable agent plus API are what separate it from the many ChatPDF clones. If you already live in Google's stack, NotebookLM covers the research half at no cost.

Pros

Page-level source citations instead of unattributed summaries
Documented API and Chrome extension, so it fits into existing workflows
Very large per-document page ceilings (2,500 on Premium, 6,000 on Pro)
Premium at $11.99/month billed yearly undercuts most document-chat rivals

Cons

Free tier is one document, three conversations and 50 questions per day
Advertised prices are annual-billing rates; monthly billing costs about 25% more
Daily rather than monthly quotas mean a heavy research day hits a hard wall
The 40-plus free writing tools are search-traffic surface, not the product

Totoy

The original idea is genuinely useful: point a camera at a bureaucratic letter and have it explained in your own language. But the company has moved upmarket — totoy.ai now reads as an AI consultancy with a workshop-first sales motion, and the consumer app is no longer what the site is selling. Anyone arriving for the document explainer will land on a contact form.

Pros

Camera-first workflow: photograph a document and get an explanation, not just a translation
Consumer apps published for both iOS and Android
Developed and hosted in the EU, with named public-sector case studies
Free 45-minute scoping workshop before any commitment

Cons

The website now sells consulting engagements rather than the app
No prices published anywhere, for either the app or the services
Legal entity and country of registration are not shown; the imprint is a linked Google Drive file

Which one fits

Choose AskYourPDF if you need

Researchers querying large PDF sets and citing back to specific pages
Support teams embedding a chatbot trained on manuals and policy documents
Repeatedly filling the same non-fillable PDF forms from source records

Choose Totoy if you need

Readers who need official letters explained in a language they actually read
Public-sector and healthcare teams wanting an EU-hosted document assistant built for them
Organisations that want a scoped workshop before committing to a project