AI tools for researchers

5 AI tools whose own sites name researchers as an audience, 2 with a free plan. Three focus on academic writing and citations, one on searching papers and generating cited reports, and one on transcribing, translating and subtitling audio and video.

10 tools · 5 tasks

Top tasks

Essay and academic writing (4)Academic paper research (3)Grammar and proofreading (1)Chatbots and general assistants (1)Transcription (1)

All 10 tools

Elicit

Searches papers and summarizes them

Elicit searches papers and clinical trials, extracts data, and generates cited research reports for researchers as an AI research assistant.

Free plan · Paid from $11/user/mo (billed annually)

Paperpal

Essay and academic writing

Paperpal is an AI academic writing tool for researchers and students, covering grammar, plagiarism checks, paraphrasing, citations and submission checks.

Paid plans: see official pricing · Free trial

Jenni

Helps researchers read and write

Jenni is a workspace for reading, writing and citing research, with claims linked to sources, for graduate students, research teams and analysts.

Free plan · Paid plans: see official pricing

Trinka

Checks grammar and paraphrases text

Trinka is an AI writing assistant for grammar, proofreading, paraphrasing, and plagiarism or AI detection in academic and technical writing, for students, researchers, and professionals.

Free plan · Paid plans: see official pricing

NoteGPT

Researches, summarizes, and writes

NoteGPT is an AI agent that handles research, summaries, documents, slides, spreadsheets, images, audio and video for educators, professionals, researchers, creators and college students.

Paid plans: see official pricing

Sonix

Converts audio and video to text

Sonix transcribes, translates, and subtitles audio and video, for media companies, journalists, filmmakers, and researchers.

Paid plans: see official pricing · Free trial

SciSummary

Summarizes research papers

SciSummary summarizes scientific papers into structured sections, for researchers and students.

Paid plans: see official pricing · 7-day free trial

Smodin

Writes and checks text using AI

Smodin is an AI writing platform with detection, humanizer, and plagiarism tools, for students, teachers, content writers, researchers, and teams.

Paid plans: see official pricing

Consensus

Searches peer-reviewed literature

Consensus is a tool that searches peer-reviewed science papers, aimed at researchers, students, and clinicians.

Paid plans: see official pricing

Writefull

Proofreads academic writing with AI

Writefull checks language, paraphrases text and offers a Word add-in to help academics, researchers, students and institutions with academic writing.

Pricing: see official site

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