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Paperguide
✓ verifiedPaid
All-in-one research platform for reading, writing and managing papers; high traffic.
286K visits/mo4.1K saves
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ExplainPaper
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI reading aid that explains highlighted passages of research papers in plain language to speed up dense academic reading.
56K visits/mo15K saves
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DeepWiki
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Free tool that auto-generates conversational, browsable documentation for any public GitHub repo, from the makers of Devin.
1.2M visits/mo
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PromptLoop
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B2B sales research and data enrichment inside spreadsheets.
44K visits/mo3.4K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
Free: $0/mo
Pro: $16/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free: $0 /mo
Growth: $750 /mo (Monthly), $500 /mo (Annually)
Core features
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦Highlight-to-explain any text
- ✦Follow-up questions on a paper
- ✦Whole-paper summaries (Pro)
- ✦Math and figure explanations (Pro)
- ✦Zotero library import
- ✦Saved highlights and explanations
- ✦AI-generated documentation for GitHub repos
- ✦Conversational Q&A about a codebase
- ✦Browsable index of popular repositories
- ✦Deep code indexing via Devin
- ✦AI-powered text transformation, extraction, and summarization in Google Sheets and Excel
- ✦Automated web scraping and deep B2B research
- ✦CRM data enrichment and sales lead validation
- ✦Custom AI models and pre-built templates for data extraction
- ✦Scalable cloud infrastructure for large-volume data processing
- ✦Integration with CRMs (e.g., HubSpot) and REST API
- ✦Market-leading accuracy for data results
- ✦Unlimited data import and export
Use cases
- →Finding relevant research papers and getting research-backed answers.
- →Analyzing papers faster with accurate data extraction.
- →Generating and polishing academic content using AI.
- →Streamlining citation and reference management.
- →Understand dense research papers
- →Decode academic jargon
- →Summarize papers quickly
- →Learn unfamiliar technical fields
- →Understanding an unfamiliar codebase quickly
- →Onboarding to open-source projects
- →Answering questions about repo internals
- →Analyzing sales lists and generating keywords/SEO content
- →Automating B2B research and CRM data enrichment
- →Extracting company data, buying signals, and custom insights from websites
- →Building prospect databases and validating sales leads
- →Transforming messy text and unpacking survey responses
- →Drafting emails and outreach
- →Processing thousands of URLs simultaneously for research
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