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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
✓ verifiedFree

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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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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PTE APEUni
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.

2.1M visits/mo
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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
  • 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
  • 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 scoring for speaking and writing
  • Full PTE question-type practice
  • Weekly exam prediction files
  • Vocabulary books and shadowing tools
  • AI study plan and score analysis
  • Web and mobile app sync
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
  • staying current with new research
  • generating cited literature reviews
  • reading and understanding papers
  • verifying academic claims
  • tracking topics and conferences
  • Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
  • Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
  • Studying likely exam questions
  • Tracking prep progress
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