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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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Infranodus
✓ verifiedFreemium
Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
71K visits/mo
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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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No public pricing
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
- ✦Text network / knowledge graph visualization
- ✦Topic modeling and content-gap detection
- ✦AI insight and question generation
- ✦GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
- ✦Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
- ✦Obsidian plugin and browser extension
- ✦AI-generated quizzes
- ✦Flashcard maker
- ✦Create flashcards from PDFs, notes and slides
- ✦YouTube and PowerPoint summarizers
- ✦Spaced-repetition study
- ✦Mobile app
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
- →Research and idea generation
- →SEO content-gap analysis
- →Qualitative and market research
- →Revise for school and university exams
- →Turn notes and PDFs into flashcards
- →Study with AI-generated quizzes
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