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Open-source, local-first AI workbench for the full scientific research lifecycle, with bundled scientific database tools and your choice of model provider.

Semantic search over 138M papers and 545K clinical trials, with a cited research agent that writes evidence reviews you can defend.

Textero AI Essay Writer turns your topic, rubric, and uploaded sources into a structured, citation-formatted academic draft.

Scribbr proofreads academic papers with AI tools plus optional human expert review.

A research workspace that turns web pages, PDFs, decks, and YouTube videos into structured, citable summaries.

Sharly AI is a document research workspace that summarizes, compares, and cites your files with verifiable sources.

AI research assistant that searches 200M+ peer-reviewed papers and auto-cites in 2,600+ styles

IKI AI is an LLM-powered knowledge workspace that captures your reads, summarizes them, and writes grounded in your own library.

OpenRead is an AI research platform that combines paper search, cited Q&A, comparison tools, and AI writing help in one browser workspace.

AlphaSense turns 500M+ premium finance documents into cited, traceable market intelligence for investment, strategy, and legal teams.

MyEssayWriter.ai generates citation-ready academic essays with real scholarly sources in about 30 seconds.

A visual knowledge base with an AI Tutor that builds structured courses from your own sources.

Chinese-language search engine that returns cited, synthesized answers instead of link lists.

Open-source, markdown-first note-taking app with backlinks, daily notes, and optional AI on your own API key

Kortex is an AI writing workspace and second brain for minimalist writers and note-takers — now rebranding to Eden.

Free Stanford research prototype that turns a topic into a cited, Wikipedia-style report through simulated expert–learner AI dialogue.

Knowing® is a v0.2 preview tree outliner that runs AI actions on individual outline nodes instead of inside a chat thread.

Open-source desktop research assistant that analyzes your documents, webpages and YouTube videos locally or via cloud AI providers.

SciPub+ is a suite of 10 AI writing assistants, each scoped to one section of an academic paper, built by working researchers.

ResearchCollab.ai is a guided research workspace that turns a question into a fully cited literature review draft, with PRISMA diagrams generated as you go.

AI research assistant for literature reviews, academic writing, and note-taking.

Jenni is an AI academic writing assistant that grounds every autocomplete suggestion and citation in your own source library.

Mindsera is an AI journal that detects your emotions, tracks recurring thought patterns, and coaches you with 50+ mental models across web, iPhone, and Android.

Otio is a persistent AI research workspace that keeps every PDF, article, video and transcript you upload in one searchable library, with page-level citations

Consensus is an AI academic search engine that answers research questions with cited evidence from 250M+ peer-reviewed papers.

Local-first AI agent that turns your files, meetings, and research into finished decks, spreadsheets, and reports.

ScienceClaw: a transparent, secure AI research assistant for literature review and data analysis.

Agentic AI research workspace uniting LaTeX, Typst and Markdown writing with browser-run Python, R and Jupyter notebooks and a grounded knowledge base.

AI mind map generator that turns prompts, PDFs, videos, audio, and webpages into editable mind maps, working inside Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP-capable

AI Thesis Writer turns a topic into a structured, citation-aware academic draft you can edit and submit — in about 15 minutes.