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Migaku
✓ verifiedFree trial

Immersion-based language learning toolkit that turns Netflix, YouTube, and web content into study material via a browser extension and apps.

11K saves
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Talkpal
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI language coach offering conversational practice with real-time feedback across 130+ languages.

1.5M visits/mo9.9K saves
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Hallo
✓ verifiedPaid

AI platform that scores speaking, writing, reading and listening in 80+ languages for pre-hire language screening.

178K visits/mo
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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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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.

2.1M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
Core features
  • Chrome extension for immersive study on real sites
  • Netflix and YouTube subtitle learning
  • Spaced-repetition memory system
  • Built-in dictionaries and grammar reference
  • iOS and Android apps
  • Support for 12+ languages
  • Conversational practice with AI tutors
  • Real-time personalized feedback and corrections
  • Dialogue, sentence, word, call, photo, and debate modes
  • Voice interaction with natural AI voices
  • Grammar courses and language certificates
  • 130+ languages on web, iOS, and Android
  • Scenario-based, open-response speaking and writing tests
  • CEFR score reports with skill-level feedback
  • Pronunciation and accent evaluation
  • Coverage of 80+ languages
  • Proctoring and cheating-prevention controls
  • Admin dashboard with shareable results
  • White labeling and multi-factor authentication
  • 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-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
Use cases
  • Learn a language through native media
  • Study vocabulary with spaced repetition
  • Turn videos and articles into lessons
  • Progress toward proficiency exams like JLPT
  • Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
  • Business teams training employees in new languages
  • Students supplementing classroom language education
  • Pre-employment language screening
  • BPO and customer-service hiring
  • HR and placement testing
  • Learning-and-development assessment
  • Enterprise global hiring
  • 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
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
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