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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. AskYourPDF publishes a starting price ($11.99); Totoy does not. Only AskYourPDF has a free tier. Only AskYourPDF ships a public API.

AskYourPDFChat with PDFs plus embeddable document-trained chatbotsTotoyPhotograph an official letter and get it explained in your own language — now sold as custom AI builds

Side by side

FactAskYourPDFTotoy
CategoryPDF ToolsChat with Documents & PDF
Pricing modelFreemiumContact
Starts at$11.99 month—
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, APIiOS, Android, Web
CompanyAskYourPDFTotoy
Launched2023—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 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
  • Zotero users who want chat over their reference library

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

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