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Rayyan
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.

1.1M visits/mo
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The Rundown AI
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Daily AI newsletter that condenses AI news, tool spotlights, and practical use cases into a five-minute read for over two million readers.

630K visits/mo
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SciSummary
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.

74K visits/mo162K saves
71K visits/mo
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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
Pricing
Free: $0 (3 active reviews, 2 free reviewers)
Essential: $8.33/month billed quarterly
Advanced: $13.33/month billed quarterly (9 active reviews, 10 free reviewers)

No public pricing

Free Trial: $0 for first 7 days (30,000 words, 5 figures, 100 chat messages)
Student: $0 for first month (promo code, unlimited use)
Pro: $4/month billed as $48/year (unlimited summaries, figures, chat, and searches)

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
  • AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
  • Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
  • Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
  • Risk of bias assessment tools
  • Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
  • Mobile app for screening on the go
  • Daily AI news digest delivered by email
  • Practical application tips alongside each story
  • Exclusive interviews with AI industry leaders
  • AI University with guides, tools directory, and courses
  • Article archive on AI, tech, and robotics
  • Structured section-by-section paper summarization
  • Bulk and multi-paper summarization and comparison
  • Chat with figures for data interpretation
  • Folder and tag-based library organization
  • Semantic search across indexed documents on Pro
  • ChatGPT connector integration
  • Research on AI governance
  • Analysis of AI risks and opportunities
  • Annual reports and updates
  • Information on AI regulation
  • Event summaries and announcements
  • 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
Use cases
  • Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
  • Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
  • Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
  • Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
  • Professionals wanting a quick daily AI news briefing
  • Readers seeking practical ways to apply new AI tools
  • Learners looking for structured AI courses and guides
  • Following exclusive interviews with AI leaders
  • Students digesting dense research papers quickly
  • Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
  • Academics organizing a personal paper library
  • Understanding public attitudes towards AI
  • Analyzing the impact of AI on great powers
  • Regulating downstream AI developers
  • Managing risks from AI-enabled biological tools
  • staying current with new research
  • generating cited literature reviews
  • reading and understanding papers
  • verifying academic claims
  • tracking topics and conferences
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