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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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Paper Digest
✓ verifiedFreemium
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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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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gizmo.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI study app that turns notes, PDFs, YouTube and slides into quizzes and flashcards to help students revise.
5.4M visits/mo10K 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
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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
- ✦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-generated quizzes
- ✦Flashcard maker
- ✦Create flashcards from PDFs, notes and slides
- ✦YouTube and PowerPoint summarizers
- ✦Spaced-repetition study
- ✦Mobile app
- ✦Video lessons
- ✦Revision notes
- ✦Quizzes
- ✦Flashcards
- ✦Exam-style questions
- ✦Past papers
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
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Revise for school and university exams
- →Turn notes and PDFs into flashcards
- →Study with AI-generated quizzes
- →Preparing for Maths and Science exams at KS3, GCSE, and A-Level.
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