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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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MagicSchool
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI education platform with 80+ teacher tools and student features, built for schools with privacy controls.
2.2M visits/mo17K saves
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Up Learn
✓ verifiedPaid
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
Pricing
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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-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
- ✦80+ AI teacher tools
- ✦50+ safe student tools
- ✦AI instructional coach
- ✦Enterprise-grade security and privacy
- ✦District dashboards and rollout support
- ✦Free for teachers
- ✦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
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
- →Plan lessons and cut prep time
- →Personalize student learning
- →Roll out AI safely across a district
- →Build student AI literacy
- →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
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