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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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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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ResearchPal
✓ verifiedFreemium
Academic research workspace combining paper search, AI literature review generation, citation management, and academic writing tools.
39K 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
No public pricing
Free: $0/month (15 credits)
Standard: $9/month (150 credits)
Pro: $39.99/month (750 credits)
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
- ✦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
- ✦Scholar Search
- ✦Literature review generation from a topic or question
- ✦Domain-specific search across 200M+ academic papers
- ✦Connected Papers-style visual citation mapping
- ✦AI paper analysis extracting methodology and findings
- ✦Chat interface for querying uploaded PDFs
- ✦Citation generation and management in multiple formats
- ✦In-editor AI writing tools for paraphrasing and tone
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
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
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- →Students building literature reviews for a thesis
- →Researchers exploring citation networks around a topic
- →Quickly extracting key findings from a batch of papers
- →Managing and formatting citations across a research project
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