Search over peer-reviewed papers with claim summaries
AI tools for researchers
Researchers use AI to cover more literature than anyone could read: finding relevant papers, summarizing them, managing references and analyzing data. Verify every citation, because a model can produce a convincing one that does not exist.
100 tools in the catalog cover the 7 jobs below; 77 have a free plan and 23 offer an API. Each section shows the best-rated, most-used tools for that job and links to its whole category.
Search the scholarly literature and run literature reviews.
Elicit
71Literature review workflow that extracts data into tables
Answers and review papers built from cited scientific literature
A life-sciences research assistant that searches 40M+ biomedical papers and returns cited, mechanism-level answers.
alphaXiv
79Lets researchers search and discuss arXiv papers, with answers grounded in the paper text rather than free-form summaries.
Acade
59Workspace for academic papers that combines literature search, outlining, citation-backed writing, and compliance checks.
Read papers
See all 8 in Paper Reading & Summarization →Summarize papers and ask questions about methods and results.
Avidnote
59AI research assistant for writing, reading, and analyzing academic papers, used by university labs.
Literature-review workspace that summarises papers, pulls key insights and answers questions about your library.
Breaks research papers into summary flashcards with extracted references
Upload a research paper and question it, with answers grounded in the document and tied to the page they came from.
Surfaces trending arXiv papers and generates summaries, explainer videos, and social discussion context for each.
genei
66Summarises PDFs and web articles into a searchable research library
Run deep research
See all 9 in Deep Research Agents →Agents that search, read and compile a cited report on a question.
Open-source research workspace whose agents pull live data from Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Maps and search
AI research agents generate probability forecasts on real-world questions, priced per question.
Open-source research agent that plans a question, searches in parallel and writes a cited report
Otio
77AI research workspace that lets you chat across hundreds of uploaded documents with page-level citations.
Serno
69Assembles a team of 3-5 AI expert personas across Claude, GPT, and Gemini to debate a strategic question and map the answer.
Runs up to six AI research agents in parallel and synthesizes their findings into one report, first report free.
Format citations
See all 6 in Research & Citation Tools →Bibliographies and citations in the style your field uses.
Combines a source library, AI drafting help, and automatic citation formatting for academic papers.
scite
50Citation index that shows whether papers support or contradict
Acurio
69Checks every citation in a thesis against the source PDFs and flags which ones the text doesn't actually support.
CiteTrue
71Checks citations against academic databases to catch fabricated or inaccurate references, including ones made up by AI.
Litero
77Academic writing helper with an outline builder, citation tool, and built-in AI-content checker.
Desktop app that drafts cited academic and biomedical research papers, from Insilico Medicine.
Analyze data
See all 16 in Data Analysis Assistants →Analyze datasets conversationally, without writing code.
Upload a spreadsheet and get it cleaned, analysed and charted without writing a formula or a line of SQL.
Cleans and analyzes spreadsheets, GA4, and ad-platform data into refreshable business reports.
Rose AI
55Natural-language data discovery and charting for finance teams
Akkio
57Campaign analytics agents built for media agencies
Chat interface for analysing spreadsheets and data
Livedocs
77Notebook workspace where an agent queries your connected data, writes the SQL and builds the dashboard from a question.
Transcribe interviews
See all 36 in Speech-to-Text & Transcription →Transcripts of recorded interviews and focus groups.
Konch
85Transcribes audio and video in 56 languages, with optional human certification in 24 to 48 hours
Acousmos
69Mac dictation app that saves every transcription to a private, searchable local archive instead of throwing it away.
Free automatic transcription for audio and video files, with speaker labels and TXT or SRT export, from Riverside.
Forward a WhatsApp voice note and get a transcript and summary back in the same chat
Transcribes audio and video, then lets you full-text search the transcript and question it in chat.
A WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger bot that transcribes forwarded voice messages into text.
Check claims
See all 4 in Fact-checking & Verification →Verify claims against sources.
BSmeter
77AI fact-checker that pulls claims out of YouTube, TikTok, and podcast content and checks them against web sources.
Solo-built tool and browser extension that scores news articles for bias and manipulation, free to use.
Parafact
68Checks pasted text for factual claims and returns citations verifying or disputing each one.
Pastes an article or YouTube link into an AI trust-score checker that cross-references claims against major outlets.