Wisio
Verified Oct 16, 2026 Possibly discontinuedThe site stopped responding.
Scientific writing assistant with citation search and translation
Listed on EffectHub ·
Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $12/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Pro is $12/month on annual billing or $24 month-to-month after a 7-day full-feature trial; Teams pricing for labs is quoted individually.
Use tool ↗About Wisio
Wisio is an editor for research manuscripts that grounds its suggestions in PDFs you upload, searches PubMed and Crossref for references without leaving the draft, and translates text into academic English. It folds drafting help, grammar correction and reference lookup into one workspace instead of a chatbot plus a reference manager plus a grammar checker. Access is subscription-only after a seven-day trial.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pro at $12/month annual or $24/month month-to-month, 7-day full-feature trial with no card, Teams quoted; features include Precision Mode PDF indexing, PubMed/Crossref reference search, grammar and translationwisio.app ↗
Is Wisio 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 22, 2022 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Squarespace Domains II LLC., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 15, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site, before our last check on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site did not answer
Pros & cons of Wisio
Narrow but well-aimed: it exists for non-native English researchers turning results into a submittable manuscript. If you already pay for a reference manager and a general assistant, the overlap is large enough to skip.
Pros
- Precision Mode indexes uploaded PDFs so suggestions cite your own sources
- PubMed and Crossref reference search is built into the editor
- $12/month annual is cheap next to a grammar tool plus a separate assistant
- Trial is full-featured for 7 days without a card
Cons
- No free tier at all, only the trial
- Month-to-month costs double the annual rate ($24 versus $12)
- No API and no published company, team or jurisdiction information
- Homepage banner signals the service was offline for a period
Best for
- Non-native English speakers drafting journal submissions
- PhD students who want citation lookup inside the draft itself
- Labs wanting suggestions grounded in their own uploaded PDFs rather than open-web guesses
Not for
- General business, blog or marketing writing
- Institutions needing on-premise or offline deployment
Watch out: The site currently advertises a comeback promotion, which implies a gap in service — do not make it the single point of failure on a submission deadline.
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