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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
71K visits/mo
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Globe Explorer
✓ verifiedFree

AI discovery and learning engine with Pro plans.

51K visits/mo
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Infranodus
✓ verifiedFreemium

Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.

71K visits/mo
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)

No public pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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)
  • Research on AI governance
  • Analysis of AI risks and opportunities
  • Annual reports and updates
  • Information on AI regulation
  • Event summaries and announcements
  • Text network / knowledge graph visualization
  • Topic modeling and content-gap detection
  • AI insight and question generation
  • GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
  • Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
  • Obsidian plugin and browser extension
Use cases
  • 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
  • Understanding public attitudes towards AI
  • Analyzing the impact of AI on great powers
  • Regulating downstream AI developers
  • Managing risks from AI-enabled biological tools
  • Researching topics using AI-driven search results.
  • Accessing enhanced features with a Pro subscription.
  • Research and idea generation
  • SEO content-gap analysis
  • Qualitative and market research
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