Openview

What it does

Openview is a native macOS PDF reader you can talk to. It feels like Apple Preview — the same fast native scrolling, find, and highlighting — but you can ask questions about the document and get answers pulled straight from its text. What makes it different: the AI runs entirely on your Mac with Apple's on-device foundation model (Apple Intelligence). No API keys, no cloud, no subscription, nothing leaves your device. And because it's truly native (AppKit + PDFKit), it's fast and lightweight.

Read PDFs with Preview-grade scrolling and ask questions answered from the document — entirely on your Mac. Free & open source.

A native macOS PDF viewer with on-device AI. Read, highlight, and ask — right inside the document. PDFKit-backed continuous scroll, find, and zoom — plus highlight / underline markup saved straight into the PDF. Ask about the open document and get answers drawn from its text — retrieval plus Apple's on-device model. No account, no cloud. Your document and your questions never leave your Mac. Openview pairs a Preview-grade reader with an on-device assistant grounded in the page in front of you — no servers, nofrom openview.pages.dev

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