online research tools - AI tools

Zotero is a free tool designed to help users collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research materials efficiently.

• Freemium

DeepResearch is an AI agent, powered by OpenAI's o3 model, that conducts comprehensive online research and generates detailed reports with cited sources. It excels at complex, multi-step research tasks.

• Free

ScholarAI is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users find, analyze, and organize academic papers efficiently, streamlining research and boosting productivity. Access over 200M+ peer-reviewed papers with AI-driven search, summarization, and data visualization.

• Freemium
• From 10$

Researcher.Life is a comprehensive AI-powered platform offering academic writing assistance, research discovery, and scientific illustration tools for researchers, built on 20+ years of expertise in academic publishing.

• Paid

Paperguide is an all-in-one AI research assistant that combines reference management, AI-powered writing assistance, and document analysis tools for academics and researchers.

• Freemium
• From 9$

Sourcely is an AI-powered academic search assistant that helps students find, summarize, and cite credible academic sources from a database of over 200 million papers. It streamlines the research process by automatically matching relevant sources to essay content.

• Freemium
• From 17$

Academia.edu is a platform for academics and researchers to share papers, track their impact, and discover new research across various disciplines. Access millions of PDFs and connect with peers globally.

• Freemium

Knowledgie is an advanced AI research assistant that enables users to search through over 200M+ research papers, get fact-based answers, and manage research materials with features like PDF chat and automated citation generation.

• Freemium
• From 8$

SumiNote is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help students and researchers organize knowledge, conduct literature reviews, and accelerate the discovery process.

• Freemium

Research Topics Generator is a free online tool that helps students and researchers develop relevant research questions based on their interests and academic requirements.

• Free

ResearchRabbit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps researchers discover, organize, and share academic papers through intuitive visualizations and personalized recommendations.

• Freemium

Zendy is an AI-powered platform designed to help users explore academic literature, offering tools like an AI research assistant and summarization to streamline the research process.

• Freemium

OmniScholar is an AI-powered research platform that streamlines academic workflows. It offers tools for discovery, organization, PDF enhancement, version control, and publication tracking.

• Free

ResearchFlow is an AI research engine that uses visual mind maps to help users explore topics, get answers from academic sources, and understand complex charts.

• Freemium
• From 16$

Keenious is an AI-powered research tool that analyzes your text to recommend relevant scientific articles and topics, helping you discover unique and valuable insights.

• Freemium
• From 10$

floatz AI enhances scientific research by simplifying the process of finding, understanding, and writing scientific content. It offers tools for efficient information retrieval and improved comprehension.

• Freemium
• From 10$

CopyOwl is an AI-powered research assistant that automates the creation of in-depth reports, essays, blogs, and papers, complete with citations. It generates fully referenced content tailored to specific needs, saving users time and effort.

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GPT Researcher is an AI-powered research agent that automates the process of gathering and organizing information from multiple online sources, delivering comprehensive research reports with citations.

• Free

Chunk is an AI research assistant that integrates personal documents, notes, and web search capabilities, utilizing premium AI models for enhanced research and writing.

• Paid

Mendeley is a reference management tool allowing researchers to access their library anywhere, add papers, import documents, and generate citations and bibliographies effortlessly.

• Freemium

Videmak Research AI is an academic software designed to enhance productivity and accelerate the research process through AI-powered tools. It provides features for literature review, proposal generation, article writing, and data analysis.

• Freemium
• From 5$

Anara is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users understand complex documents, organize findings, and write well-cited papers, supporting various file types and offering collaborative features.

• Freemium

Lateral is an AI-powered research assistant that helps academics and researchers search, save, and organize findings across papers, making research up to 10x faster with intelligent document processing and organization features.

• Freemium
• From 12$

Aginsi is an AI-powered research tool that helps users summarize, process, and organize research materials in one unified platform, streamlining the research workflow from collection to analysis.

• Usage Based
• From 4$

Otio is an AI-powered research tool that helps users understand and chat with documents, links, and videos, and automate complex research workflows.

• Freemium

Upword is an AI-powered research assistant that seamlessly integrates artificial intelligence with traditional research methods, helping users process, summarize, and analyze content more efficiently.

• Freemium
• From 8$

Linnk AI accelerates research and knowledge acquisition with AI-powered tools for document analysis, translation, and summarization. It helps professionals and academics process information efficiently and overcome language barriers.

• Paid
• From 8$

CloudResearch provides tools for academic and market researchers to access millions of diverse, high-quality respondents worldwide. It focuses on data quality and offers solutions for recruiting vetted participants and managing research projects.

• Usage Based

Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps researchers automate time-consuming tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing findings across 125 million academic papers.

• Freemium
• From 10$

Collabwriting streamlines online research by enabling users to highlight, save, share, and collaborate on web content and PDFs, featuring AI-powered search.

• Freemium