RECAP
Shares rank 44 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
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.
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.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Shares purchased PACER filings publicly
“Recap takes any PACER document you purchase and automatically adds it to CourtListener for others to see/download.”
Comment from 19 Jun 2026 in “Court Records Should Be Free” “I've been burning up every cent of my free $30/month PACER credit liberating important filings into RECAP”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Court Records Should Be Free” “I especially like RECAP as a method for freeing things from PACER.”
Comment from 18 Sep 2026 in “Astra for Law” Easier to use than official PACER
“RECAP is 100x easier to use than the official PACER”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Court Records Should Be Free” “Their pages are easier to use than PACER itself.”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “The RECAP Suite is a collection of tools for working with PACER” No PACER account needed
“you don’t need to be a US resident/citizen to get your own account and make requests and contribute to RECAP yourself”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Court Records Should Be Free” “RECAP saves thousands of people from having to make PACER accounts.”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Court Records Should Be Free” Free under PACER's quarterly threshold
“I think we're close to a pretty nice balance in the status quo: RECAP, and a free tier.”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Court Records Should Be Free” “as long as you stay under $30 in spend per quarter, the requests are free”
Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “Pacer Fees Are Going Up 20%. They Should Be Going Away”
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| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| RECAPThis page | 8 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“as long as you stay under $30 in spend per quarter, the requests are free”
“I especially like RECAP as a method for freeing things from PACER.”
“Their pages are easier to use than PACER itself.”
“you don’t need to be a US resident/citizen to get your own account and make requests and contribute to RECAP yourself”
“RECAP is 100x easier to use than the official PACER”
“I've been burning up every cent of my free $30/month PACER credit liberating important filings into RECAP”
“I think we're close to a pretty nice balance in the status quo: RECAP, and a free tier.”
“RECAP saves thousands of people from having to make PACER accounts.”
“Recap takes any PACER document you purchase and automatically adds it to CourtListener for others to see/download.”
“it has no counterparts either worldwide or within the US”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.