Literfy
Verified Oct 14, 2026 ActiveSearches Google Scholar, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar at once and drafts a literature review grounded in the papers it finds.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $19 once
- Billing
- One-time purchase
Free accounts get 30 welcome credits (a search costs 2), enough for one full review. The cheapest paid option is the Light Pack, $19 one-time for 1,000 credits that never expire; Pro is $29 a month for 1,800 credits or $329 a year for 24,000 credits valid 365 days.
Use tool ↗About Literfy
Literfy automates the research-heavy part of writing a literature review: it searches multiple academic databases at once, builds an outline organized by theme, and drafts review text tied back to the specific papers it cites, aiming to avoid fabricated claims by keeping every sentence grounded in a real source. It exports to Word, LaTeX, or PDF, and syncs citations to Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote in BibTeX or RIS format. The intended users are graduate students, PhD candidates, and industry researchers who'd otherwise spend days manually screening papers before writing. Pricing includes a free tier with starter credits, a one-time credit pack at nineteen dollars, and a monthly subscription at twenty-nine dollars for a larger recurring credit allowance. The company doesn't publish its legal name or country on the site.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 14, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free $0 with 30 welcome credits; Light Pack $19 one-time for 1,000 non-expiring credits; Pro Monthly $29 for 1,800 credits a month; Pro Yearly $329 for 24,000 credits (15 October 2026)literfy.ai ↗
- Home page: one query runs across Google Scholar, PubMed and Semantic Scholar; drafts export to LaTeX, Markdown or Word, with BibTeX/RIS sync, Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote integration and Overleaf (15 October 2026)literfy.ai ↗
- Terms of service name no legal entity, saying only that they are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which literfy.ai operates (15 October 2026)literfy.ai ↗
Is Literfy legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Nov 11, 2025Registry record (RDAP), registrar Spaceship, Inc., looked up Sep 14, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 4, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 14, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 14, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- LiterfyOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Literfy
Literfy's pitch — grounding every sentence of a generated review in an actual retrieved paper — targets the real failure mode of AI writing tools in academic contexts, which is confident-sounding citations to papers that don't say what the tool claims. Whether it fully avoids that failure mode isn't something that can be verified without testing it against a review the researcher already knows well.
Pros
- Searches three major academic databases in one query instead of separately
- Citation export in BibTeX/RIS plus direct sync to Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote
- One-time credit pack option for a single project instead of forcing a subscription
- Free tier lets a user test output quality before paying
Cons
- Company's legal name and country aren't disclosed on the site
- Like any AI summarization tool, grounding claims still need a researcher's own verification against the source papers
Best for
- Graduate students and PhD candidates drafting a first-pass literature review
- Researchers wanting one search across Google Scholar, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar instead of three separate searches
Not for
- Researchers in fields poorly indexed by the three databases it searches
- Anyone who needs a final, submission-ready review without expert revision
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