Docky
Pricing
- Free Tier
- Free forever, no credit card required
Summary
Switching between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini tabs to compare outputs is a productivity drain disguised as a workflow — Docky exists to collapse that into a single browser sidebar.
Docky installs as a Chrome or Edge extension and surfaces GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, and image-generation models behind a single Cmd+K keystroke. The multi-model @group chat lets you query several models at once and compare answers in one view, which matters when you're iterating on copy and need to know whether GPT or Claude is reading your brief better. OCR extraction and PDF/Word/PPT summarization work directly on files you have open, without uploading to a separate service. The ceiling appears when your workflow needs API access, automation, or any output that must connect to another system — Docky has no API surface and no integration layer. At that point, teams maintain Docky for quick lookups and build a separate pipeline for anything that needs to move data downstream.
Bottom line: Pick Docky for in-browser research, multi-model copy comparison, and on-the-fly document summarization — but the moment your output needs to trigger anything outside the browser, you're exporting manually and Docky stops being enough.
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Pros
Sign in to edit- @group chat queries GPT, Claude, and Gemini simultaneously in one thread, so you pick the best answer without running the same prompt three times across three tabs.
- Cmd/Alt+K sidebar access works on any website without a new tab, which means your context — the article, the document, the draft — stays in view while you work with AI against it.
- OCR extraction pulls text from scanned images and PDFs directly in the sidebar, so researchers processing document archives skip the copy-paste step that breaks flow.
- Four image-generation models (Flux, DALL-E HD, SDXL, Ideogram) are switchable in one click, so you match the generation style to the job without maintaining separate accounts or tabs.
- Inline text-selection toolbar on any webpage triggers explain, translate, or continue actions instantly, which means writers and translators stop context-switching to refine phrasing mid-read.
Cons
Sign in to edit- No API surface exists on the vendor page, so any workflow that needs Docky's output to feed another tool — a CMS, a database, a Slack message — requires manual copy-paste; teams building automated content pipelines hit this wall immediately and need a different tool.
- All processing runs through Docky's cloud with no self-hosted option described, which means teams operating under data-residency requirements or handling sensitive documents cannot route that work through this sidebar and will evaluate alternatives with on-premises deployment.
- The sidebar is browser-bound: no desktop app, no mobile client, no CLI access is described, so any workflow that happens outside Chrome or Edge — batch processing, server-side summarization, headless document review — is outside what Docky can address, and teams doing that work at scale switch to a platform with an API or SDK.
About
- Platforms
- Chrome, Edge
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-08-15T22:09:19.714Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Users needing quick AI access while browsing
- Content creators comparing model outputs
- Researchers summarizing documents
- Writers refining tone and grammar in context
What it does well
- Summarizing web pages and research PDFs
- Comparing responses from multiple AI models side by side
- Composing and refining emails, blogs, and social posts
- Generating images in different styles without leaving the current tab
- Extracting text via OCR from images or scanned documents
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Sign Up to ContributeFrequently Asked Questions
- Is Docky free?
- Docky has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades. You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Docky open source?
- No — Docky is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does Docky support?
- Docky is available on: Chrome, Edge.
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Tab-switching between AI providers is the friction that compounds across a hundred small tasks a day. Docky installs as a browser sidebar extension and puts GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Flux, DALL-E, SDXL, and Ideogram behind a single keyboard shortcut. The core loop: press Cmd/Alt+K to open the sidebar, work directly against whatever page or document you have open, and close it without leaving the tab. Text selection triggers an inline toolbar for instant explanation, translation, or continuation — no copy-paste required.
The differentiating feature is @group chat: type @gpt @claude @gemini in a single message and all three respond in parallel. For content creators deciding which model’s voice matches a brand brief, or researchers stress-testing an answer across providers, this replaces the manual round-trip that costs time and breaks context. Image generation follows the same pattern — switch between Flux, DALL-E HD, SDXL, and Ideogram without leaving the sidebar, choosing the model whose aesthetic fits the task rather than being locked into one provider’s output.
Docky fits teams and individuals who live in the browser and need AI access woven into reading, writing, and research without standing up infrastructure. It does not fit workflows that need outputs to flow into other systems: the vendor page describes no API, no webhook, no automation hooks, and no self-hosted option. Scanned-document OCR and PDF summarization work well for one-off research tasks; they are not a document pipeline. Teams who start here and find the ceiling typically move model-switching and document processing into a platform with an API layer, while keeping Docky for ad-hoc lookups.