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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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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

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

2.1M visits/mo
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Open Knowledge Maps
✓ verifiedFree

Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.

113K visits/mo1.1K saves
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Paper Digest
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.

140K visits/mo
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txyz.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research assistant for reading, searching, and writing about academic papers, built for researchers managing a personal library.

110K visits/mo
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

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/year (up to 100-page file analysis, 5 writing pages)
Pro: $96/year (up to 100-page analysis, full library access)
Ultra: $288/year (up to 300-page analysis, 3x context window)
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-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI-generated visual maps of research topics
  • Clusters papers into themes
  • Open-access resource discovery
  • Open-source and nonprofit
  • Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
  • literature review generator with per-sentence citations
  • AI reader for PDFs
  • AI writer with citations
  • academic claim verification
  • question answering over literature
  • daily, conference and best-paper digests
  • cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
  • AI-assisted search across academic papers
  • Chat-based Q&A over uploaded documents with source citations
  • Personal research library with retention limits by plan
  • AI writing agent for drafting research-based content
  • API access for institutions and businesses
  • Adjustable file upload size (up to 300 pages on top tier)
Use cases
  • Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
  • Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
  • Tracking research shaping the next few years
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Get an overview of a research field
  • Find relevant papers faster
  • Identify key concepts in the literature
  • Embed discovery tools in library systems
  • staying current with new research
  • generating cited literature reviews
  • reading and understanding papers
  • verifying academic claims
  • tracking topics and conferences
  • Finding papers relevant to a research topic
  • Getting quick summaries and answers from long PDFs
  • Managing and revisiting a personal library of research papers
  • Drafting literature-informed writing with AI assistance
  • Integrating paper search/analysis into an institution's own tools via API
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