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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
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Thesify
✓ verifiedPaid

AI reviewer that critiques academic manuscripts and Coauthor agents that search, cite, and draft alongside researchers.

161K visits/mo32K saves
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Brilliant
✓ verifiedFreemium

Interactive learning app with an AI tutor for math, coding, science and data-visual, adaptive lessons for all ages.

2.6M visits/mo
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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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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
  • AI manuscript review flagging gaps in argument and evidence
  • Citation search across 200+ million academic sources
  • Coauthor agents that search, read, and draft alongside users
  • Journal recommender and chat support
  • Confidentiality guarantee that documents aren't used for AI training
  • Personal AI tutor (Koji)
  • Visual, interactive lessons
  • Adaptive practice based on mastery
  • Courses in math, CS, science and data
  • Gamified streaks, levels and daily goals
  • iOS and Android apps
  • 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
  • Graduate students refining a thesis or dissertation
  • Researchers preparing a manuscript for journal submission
  • Students polishing essays and reports for coursework
  • Getting fast feedback without waiting on a supervisor
  • Learning math and coding by doing
  • Getting adaptive tutoring outside class
  • Building STEM intuition
  • Daily skill practice
  • Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
  • Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
  • Studying likely exam questions
  • Tracking prep progress
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