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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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Open Knowledge Maps
✓ verifiedFree

Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.

113K visits/mo1.1K saves

Plant identification app with a 17,000+ species database plus care schedules, disease ID and botanist Q&A for home gardeners.

1.2M visits/mo

Free AI-assisted career aptitude quiz that matches personality and skills to suggested tech career paths.

1.6M visits/mo1.9K saves
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PTE APEUni
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.

2.1M visits/mo
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

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No public pricing

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Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI-generated visual maps of research topics
  • Clusters papers into themes
  • Open-access resource discovery
  • Open-source and nonprofit
  • Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
  • Photo-based plant identification
  • Database of 17,000+ species
  • Disease and pest identification
  • Personalized watering and care schedules
  • Ask-the-Botanist expert answers
  • Customizable plant lists and reminders
  • AI-assisted career matching using validated psychological models
  • Instant results with no account required
  • Personality analysis alongside skill-based career matches
  • Ranked list of best-fit career paths
  • Job role overview summaries for each match
  • AI scoring for speaking and writing
  • Full PTE question-type practice
  • Weekly exam prediction files
  • Vocabulary books and shadowing tools
  • AI study plan and score analysis
  • Web and mobile app sync
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Get an overview of a research field
  • Find relevant papers faster
  • Identify key concepts in the literature
  • Embed discovery tools in library systems
  • Identify an unknown houseplant or flower
  • Diagnose plant diseases and pests
  • Set up a watering and care routine
  • Learn care specifics for a species
  • People considering a career change into tech seeking data-driven direction
  • Students unsure which tech role fits their strengths
  • Job seekers wanting language to explain their strengths to employers or mentors
  • Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
  • Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
  • Studying likely exam questions
  • Tracking prep progress
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