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Elicit
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Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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Paper Digest
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AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.
140K visits/mo
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Connected Papers
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Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.
873K visits/mo
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gizmo.ai
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AI study app that turns notes, PDFs, YouTube and slides into quizzes and flashcards to help students revise.
5.4M visits/mo10K saves
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PTE APEUni
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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
No public pricing
Free: USD 0
Academic: USD 3 /month*
Business: USD 10 /month*
Academic Group: 3 USD / seat / month*
Business Group: 10 USD / seat / month*
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Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦literature review generator with per-sentence citations
- ✦AI reader for PDFs
- ✦AI writer with citations
- ✦academic claim verification
- ✦question answering over literature
- ✦daily, conference and best-paper digests
- ✦cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
- ✦Visual graph generation of related academic papers
- ✦Discovery of prior and derivative works
- ✦Identification of important and relevant papers
- ✦Exploration of research field dynamics
- ✦AI-generated quizzes
- ✦Flashcard maker
- ✦Create flashcards from PDFs, notes and slides
- ✦YouTube and PowerPoint summarizers
- ✦Spaced-repetition study
- ✦Mobile app
- ✦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
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
- →Getting a visual overview of a new academic field
- →Ensuring no key papers are missed in a field with a large volume of new publications
- →Creating a bibliography for a thesis
- →Discovering relevant prior and derivative works
- →Revise for school and university exams
- →Turn notes and PDFs into flashcards
- →Study with AI-generated quizzes
- →Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
- →Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
- →Studying likely exam questions
- →Tracking prep progress
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