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Futurwise
✓ verifiedFreemium

Curated intelligence app delivering verified, attributed human analysis across tech, climate, health and mobility.

40K saves
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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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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
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Up Learn
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AI-personalized online A Level and GCSE courses for UK students, backed by an A*/A grade guarantee or money back.

1.6M visits/mo

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
Pricing

No public 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/month (unlimited searches across 310M+ articles)
ResearchRabbit+ Annual: $10/month
ResearchRabbit+ Monthly: $12.5/month
GCSE Combined Science: from £49.99/month
Up Master (2028 access): £694.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Core (2028 access): £549.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Master monthly: £99.99/month pay-as-you-go
Up Core monthly: £74.99/month pay-as-you-go

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Core features
  • Curated intelligence across four domains
  • Tiered source channels from news to research
  • Verified and attributed human insight
  • Daily updates on fast-changing topics
  • Mobile and web access
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • 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
  • Interactive video lessons mapped to specific exam boards
  • AI diagnostic algorithm for personalized revision
  • Detailed progress tracking across the curriculum
  • Guided exam-question walkthroughs
  • 24/7 online tutor support via chat
  • A*/A grade guarantee with money-back policy
  • 3-day free trial with no payment details required
  • 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
Use cases
  • Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
  • Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
  • Tracking research shaping the next few years
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • 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
  • A Level students preparing for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, or Cambridge International exams
  • GCSE students studying Combined Science
  • Students wanting AI-personalized revision instead of generic textbooks
  • Schools looking to boost student attainment with a supplementary platform
  • Identify an unknown houseplant or flower
  • Diagnose plant diseases and pests
  • Set up a watering and care routine
  • Learn care specifics for a species
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