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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.

2.1M visits/mo
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Algor Education
✓ verifiedFreemium

Algor Education turns notes, docs, and media into AI-generated concept maps, flashcards, quizzes, and study notes.

1.7M visits/mo
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ParakeetAI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Real-time AI interview assistant that transcribes questions and generates answers, marketed as undetectable on screen share.

1.2M visits/mo5.4K saves
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SHIFT AI
✓ verifiedPaid

Japanese-language membership community teaching professionals and side-hustlers how to apply generative AI to their work.

1.2M visits/mo
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ResearchRabbit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.

1.2M visits/mo79 saves
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
Free: €0 (concept maps, up to 15k characters)
Beginner: €2.99/mo
Base: €5.49/mo
Pro: €7.99/mo

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/month (unlimited searches across 310M+ articles)
ResearchRabbit+ Annual: $10/month
ResearchRabbit+ Monthly: $12.5/month
Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI concept and mind maps
  • AI flashcards and quizzes
  • AI study notes/summaries
  • Transcriptions from audio/video
  • Prebuilt and custom templates
  • Multi-language support
  • real-time question transcription
  • AI answers with a choice of GPT or Claude models
  • coding interview support
  • resume-based personalization
  • knowledge base uploads
  • invisible during screen share
  • AI meeting notes
  • 110+ video courses across AI-tool, automation, and business topics
  • live webinars from invited AI practitioners
  • in-person regional networking events
  • free one-on-one career/AI consultation
  • corporate AI upskilling program for companies
  • member success-story interviews and community leaderboard
  • Citation and author network exploration from a seed paper
  • Interactive visualizations of how topics relate over time
  • Unlimited library organization and collection sharing
  • Zotero integration for syncing saved papers
  • Up to 300 seed articles supported on the paid tier
  • Alerts for new related research
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Turning notes into visual study aids
  • Creating teaching materials
  • Exam revision and self-study
  • getting live answers during job interviews
  • coding interview assistance
  • meeting note-taking
  • learning to use generative AI tools for daily work
  • exploring AI-related side income or career change
  • corporate AI adoption training for employees
  • networking with other AI learners across Japan
  • Building a systematic literature review efficiently
  • Discovering research gaps in an unfamiliar field
  • Tracking new publications related to saved papers
  • Visualizing how a body of research has evolved
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