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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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Semantic Scholar
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Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
7.9M visits/mo13K 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
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Coddy - Code Makes Perfect
✓ verifiedFreemium
Gamified platform to learn 20+ programming languages via interactive lessons, a browser playground and an AI tutor.
2.5M visits/mo2.0K saves
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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-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
- ✦Free public API for paper search and metadata
- ✦Author and topic discovery
- ✦Citation graph exploration
- ✦Beta program for new features
- ✦AI-generated quizzes
- ✦Flashcard maker
- ✦Create flashcards from PDFs, notes and slides
- ✦YouTube and PowerPoint summarizers
- ✦Spaced-repetition study
- ✦Mobile app
- ✦Interactive lessons in 20+ languages
- ✦Browser playground to run code with no setup
- ✦AI tutor that explains and debugs code
- ✦Shareable completion certifications
- ✦Cheat sheets, docs and developer tools
- ✦Team/business training option
Use cases
- →Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
- →Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
- →Tracking research shaping the next few years
- →Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
- →Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
- →Students exploring citation networks for a topic
- →Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
- →Revise for school and university exams
- →Turn notes and PDFs into flashcards
- →Study with AI-generated quizzes
- →Learning to code from scratch
- →Practicing a new programming language
- →Getting instant AI help while coding
- →Earning certificates to share
- →Onboarding and training engineering teams
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