Macro PDF Editor earns praise for fast, intuitive navigation that makes large, complex documents less painful to handle. Reviewers highlight smooth tabbed browsing, helpful AI prompts, and reliable tools for splitting, annotating, and editingβespecially useful for research, legal, and contract work. Users like the clean, minimalist design and privacy-minded feel. Some note rough edges with AI-driven edits and saving issues, plus requests for broader platform support. Overall sentiment: a polished, efficient workflow booster that reduces friction with hefty PDFs and cross-references while feeling modern and lightweight.
Macro PDF Editor
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 havingΒ 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 :)