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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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researcher.life
✓ verifiedPaid

Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.

723K visits/mo
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Rayyan
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.

1.1M visits/mo
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No public pricing

Free: $0 (3 active reviews, 2 free reviewers)
Essential: $8.33/month billed quarterly
Advanced: $13.33/month billed quarterly (9 active reviews, 10 free reviewers)
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 academic writing assistant with grammar and phrasing suggestions
  • Journal recommender matched to a manuscript's abstract
  • Scientific illustration library with drag-and-drop editor
  • Literature discovery across 300M+ academic papers
  • Plagiarism checking and multilingual translation support
  • Research skill courses included with subscription
  • Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
  • AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
  • Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
  • Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
  • Risk of bias assessment tools
  • Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
  • Mobile app for screening on the go
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
  • Non-native English researchers polishing manuscripts before submission
  • Finding the right journal for a paper's subject area
  • Building scientific figures without a graphic designer
  • Keeping up with new literature in a research field
  • Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
  • Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
  • Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
  • Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
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