Independent product intelligence · Worldwide · 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31
Side Reader is a tool designed for efficient PDF interaction, offering features like split-screen viewing, zoom, text copying, and the ability to capture and ask questions about document content.
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“Side Reader”
Side Reader is a tool designed for efficient PDF interaction, offering features like split-screen viewing, zoom, text copying, and the ability to capture and ask questions about document content.
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Canonical website: https://www.side-reader.com
Observed across 1 discovery source.
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Side Reader is a Chrome extension that lets you read and interact with PDFs directly within the sidebar of AI chat platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek. It solves the problem of needing to switch between a PDF viewer and an AI chat interface by integrating them into a single split-screen workspace.
Side Reader provides features for efficient PDF interaction, including split-screen viewing, zoom controls, text copying, and the ability to capture document content and ask questions about it. The free plan includes upload history, while the lifetime plan adds capture and ask functionality and custom prompts.
Side Reader is a Chrome extension that integrates as a sidebar feature on specific AI chat websites. The supported platforms listed are ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek.
Side Reader offers a freemium pricing model. There is a free plan at $0 per month and a lifetime plan for $29, which is noted as the most popular option. The lifetime plan includes additional features like capture and ask functionality, customer support, and custom prompts.
Side Reader is designed for users who work with PDF documents and want to use AI chat tools to analyze or ask questions about them. It is categorized as a document management, study, and analysis tool, useful for researchers, students, and professionals.
Side Reader is a Chrome extension that enables reading and chatting with PDF documents directly in the sidebar of AI chat platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek.
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Worldwide estimates · Data period 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31. Figures are measured estimates intended for market research. Signals we have not measured for this domain are omitted, never estimated; a measured zero is still reported as zero. How this was measured