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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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ThesisAI
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AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.
189K visits/mo32K saves
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Astra AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI tutor for school and university subjects with step-by-step help, exam prep, oral/mock exams and flashcards.
4.4M visits/mo1.7K saves
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
Per document: from $4
No public pricing
Free trial available
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
- ✦Full document drafting from one prompt
- ✦Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
- ✦Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
- ✦Inline citation verification
- ✦Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
- ✦Overleaf integration for manual editing
- ✦Zotero and Mendeley library import
- ✦Step-by-step subject explanations
- ✦Photo-based math problem solving
- ✦Oral and mock exam practice with grading
- ✦Personalized study plans
- ✦Flashcards from uploaded notes
- ✦Coverage of many subjects, user-created subjects
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
- →Researchers producing a literature review quickly
- →Students drafting long papers with verified citations
- →Academics writing in a non-native language
- →Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
- →Prepare for school or university exams
- →Get help understanding tough concepts
- →Practice oral exams out loud
- →Study from your own notes
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