# RECAP

8 Hacker News commenters recommended RECAP and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free tool that adds the PACER court documents you buy to CourtListener for others to read, and makes the official PACER site easier to use.

## Why people recommend it

- Shares purchased PACER filings publicly (3 comments): "Recap takes any PACER document you purchase and automatically adds it to CourtListener for others to see/download." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602869)) "I've been burning up every cent of my free $30/month PACER credit liberating important filings into RECAP" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606783)) "I especially like RECAP as a method for freeing things from PACER." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754009))
- Easier to use than official PACER (2 comments): "RECAP is 100x easier to use than the official PACER" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606791)) "Their pages are easier to use than PACER itself." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115700))
- No PACER account needed (2 comments): "you don’t need to be a US resident/citizen to get your own account and make requests and contribute to RECAP yourself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607112)) "RECAP saves thousands of people from having to make PACER accounts." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605296))
- Free under PACER's quarterly threshold (2 comments): "I think we're close to a pretty nice balance in the status quo: RECAP, and a free tier." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605674)) "as long as you stay under $30 in spend per quarter, the requests are free" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281450))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "RECAP", https://hackerapproved.com/p/recap/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).