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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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Coddy - Code Makes Perfect
✓ verifiedFreemium

Gamified platform to learn 20+ programming languages via interactive lessons, a browser playground and an AI tutor.

2.5M visits/mo2.0K 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
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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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Algor Education
✓ verifiedFreemium

Algor Education turns notes, docs, and media into AI-generated concept maps, flashcards, quizzes, and study notes.

1.7M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

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

No public pricing

Free: €0 (concept maps, up to 15k characters)
Beginner: €2.99/mo
Base: €5.49/mo
Pro: €7.99/mo

Free trial available

Core features
  • 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
  • Interactive lessons in 20+ languages
  • Browser playground to run code with no setup
  • AI tutor that explains and debugs code
  • Shareable completion certifications
  • Cheat sheets, docs and developer tools
  • Team/business training option
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • 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 concept and mind maps
  • AI flashcards and quizzes
  • AI study notes/summaries
  • Transcriptions from audio/video
  • Prebuilt and custom templates
  • Multi-language support
Use cases
  • Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
  • Business teams training employees in new languages
  • Students supplementing classroom language education
  • Learning to code from scratch
  • Practicing a new programming language
  • Getting instant AI help while coding
  • Earning certificates to share
  • Onboarding and training engineering teams
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • 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
  • Turning notes into visual study aids
  • Creating teaching materials
  • Exam revision and self-study
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