Alternatives to Storm

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

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

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

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

AI search engine that answers with cited sources across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.

AI market intelligence platform that turns 500M+ premium finance documents into cited, no-hallucination research.

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

Open-source autonomous research agent that plans, reads sources in parallel, and writes cited reports you host yourself

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

Free AI-powered research tool for searching 238 million scientific papers, with TLDR summaries and citation graphs.

Elicit is an AI research assistant that searches 138M+ papers and clinical trials, then writes fully cited evidence reviews.

GAJIX turns any topic you name into a personalized AI-generated curriculum with adaptive explanations and practice.

Scholarcy is an AI academic summarizer that turns research papers and PDFs into interactive summary flashcards, notes, and study guides.

AI academic search engine that answers research questions with cited evidence from 220M+ peer-reviewed papers

Free AI-assisted search, chat, and structured PDF reports over open-access PubMed biomedical literature, no registration needed.

Chat with books and let simulated great minds join the conversation, with every answer cited to the page.

Free Chrome extension that summarizes, chats, and researches any web page by voice or text.

Paper Notes turns 25,000+ AI conference papers into free 5-minute summaries, sorted by conference and subfield.

Anara is an AI research assistant that searches your library and the web and cites every answer to its exact source.

Perplexity is a cited AI answer engine that puts a verifiable source link on every answer it gives.

Turn open-access research papers into audio podcasts and ask them questions by chat.

Upload a research paper, highlight confusing text, and get plain-language explanations from AI in 50+ languages.

AI research workspace that searches, reads, and cites your document library with verifiable source references.

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

Source-grounded AI research assistant that cites the documents you upload — now called Gemini Notebook

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

Agentic AI research workspace with real-time collaborative LaTeX, Typst, and Markdown writing.

Build a GPT-style LLM from scratch with hands-on PyTorch code in this acclaimed book by Sebastian Raschka

All-in-one AI workspace: slides, essays, videos, images, podcasts, and research from one prompt.

Visual research workspace that maps AI conversations as branching graphs for multi-model comparison.