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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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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

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

2.1M visits/mo
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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

Plant identification app with a 17,000+ species database plus care schedules, disease ID and botanist Q&A for home gardeners.

1.2M visits/mo
Pricing

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

Free trial available

No public pricing

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-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI concept and mind maps
  • AI flashcards and quizzes
  • AI study notes/summaries
  • Transcriptions from audio/video
  • Prebuilt and custom templates
  • Multi-language support
  • Photo-based plant identification
  • Database of 17,000+ species
  • Disease and pest identification
  • Personalized watering and care schedules
  • Ask-the-Botanist expert answers
  • Customizable plant lists and reminders
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
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Turning notes into visual study aids
  • Creating teaching materials
  • Exam revision and self-study
  • Identify an unknown houseplant or flower
  • Diagnose plant diseases and pests
  • Set up a watering and care routine
  • Learn care specifics for a species
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