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ExplainPaper
✓ verifiedFreemium
Explains highlighted text in research papers; useful focused study tool.
👁 56K/mo♥ 15K
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Glean
✓ verifiedFreemium
Enterprise work-AI platform for knowledge discovery and automation.
👁 3.2M/mo
Pricing
Basic: $0/month
Pro: $20/month
Team: $49/month
Free: $0 / lifetime
Pro: $14.99 / lifetime
Premium: $4.99 / month
Free: $0/month
Plus: $12/month
Pro: $20/month
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Integration with Notion databases
- ✦Unlimited fields and submissions
- ✦Customizable form styling
- ✦Conditional logic and validation rules
- ✦Ready-made form templates
- ✦File uploads
- ✦Multi-page forms
- ✦Email, Slack, and Discord notifications
- ✦Submission editing
- ✦Form protection (password, captcha)
- ✦Distraction-free reading mode
- ✦Text-to-speech functionality
- ✦Article summarization
- ✦Multilingual translation
- ✦Customizable themes and fonts
- ✦Export to PDF, Word, Markdown, and other formats
- ✦AI Reader Assistant
- ✦Highlight confusing text for explanations
- ✦Upload and save research papers
- ✦AI-powered explanations using LLMs
- ✦Simplification of complex concepts
- ✦Work AI Platform
- ✦Glean Assistant (AI assistant)
- ✦Glean Agents (AI agent builder)
- ✦Glean Search (Enterprise search)
- ✦Connectors (Data integration)
- ✦Data & AI Governance
- ✦Security
Use cases
- →Guest blog submission forms
- →Event attendee check-in forms
- →Customer satisfaction surveys
- →Patient intake forms
- →Photography quotation requests
- →Equipment rental requests
- →Photo shoot permit requests
- →Reading news articles without ads or distractions
- →Studying online documents with text-to-speech support
- →Translating foreign language articles
- →Creating clean, exportable versions of web content
- →Clipping and saving articles for later reading
- →Understanding dense sections of research papers
- →Learning complex concepts in academic literature
- →Accelerating research paper review time
- →Finding information across various company apps
- →Creating and summarizing content
- →Automating repetitive tasks and workflows
- →Onboarding new employees and projects
- →Improving customer service with quick access to knowledge
- →Enhancing engineering productivity
- →Streamlining sales processes
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