Research & Search
AI search engines, literature review and academic research tools. 75 tools listed. See also the guide to the best Research & Search tools.
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Aemon
Forward-deployed AI research engineer platform.
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alphaXiv
Discussion and reading layer for arXiv papers.
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Anara
AI research workspace, formerly Unriddle, for reading, searching and writing with papers and documents.
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Andi
AI search assistant that gives short answers with sources instead of a list of links.
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AskYourPDF
AI chatbot for asking questions about uploaded PDF files.
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Asta
Ai2's AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing literature and analyzing scientific data.
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Bohrium
AI platform for scientific research and paper reading.
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Brave Search
Independent, privacy-focused search engine with AI answer summaries.
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Brave Search API
Web search API from Brave, with AI grounding options.
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Captain Search
Self-tuning search for products and files.
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Causaly
AI research platform for life sciences.
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ChatPDF
Chat with PDF documents and get answers from their content.
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ClawsGO Science
AI research agent with its own cloud lab.
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Connected Papers
Visual graph tool for exploring academic papers related to a topic.
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Consensus
AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed literature.
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Dimensions AI
Research database with AI assistant for publications, grants and patents.
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Edison Scientific
AI research platform for scientific discovery and literature-driven investigation.
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Elicit
AI research assistant for synthesizing evidence from scientific papers.
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Epsilon
AI search engine for scientific papers that finds citations, summarizes studies and synthesizes findings.
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Exa
Search engine and API built for AI applications.
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Explainpaper
Explains highlighted sections of research papers in plain language.
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Felo
AI search engine that answers questions with sources and can create slides and mind maps.
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Foresight
AI consumer simulations for testing pricing, positioning, packaging and campaigns.
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FutureHouse
Nonprofit building AI agents for scientific research.
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Gemini Notebook
Google's AI research notebook, formerly NotebookLM, that summarizes and answers questions grounded in your own sources.
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Genspark
AI search and agent workspace that compiles answers and pages.
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GPT Researcher
Open-source deep research agent.
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Ground News
News comparison app that shows coverage and bias across sources, with summaries.
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Humata
Ask questions of your documents and get answers with citations.
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Iambic
AI-driven drug discovery.
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iAsk.ai
AI search engine that answers questions with sourced responses.
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Inciteful
Free tool that uses citation networks to find related papers and explore academic literature.
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Infera
Lab operating system for protocol validation, experiment preview, lab ordering and data analysis.
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Instrumentl
Grant discovery and management with AI.
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Iris.ai
Research workflow platform for literature discovery and document analysis.
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Jenni AI
AI writing and citation assistant for academic work.
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Kagi
Subscription search engine that is ad-free and offers AI assistants.
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Keenious
Recommends relevant research papers based on the text you are writing or reading.
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Komo Search
AI search engine with chat answers and exploration modes.
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Labric
Captures lab instrument data automatically and adds AI-powered analysis for research teams.
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Latch Bio
Data platform for biotech with AI.
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Liner
AI search and research assistant that answers with cited sources and searches academic papers.
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Linkup
Web search API designed for grounding AI agents on live results.
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Litmaps
Literature mapping and monitoring tool for researchers.
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Mendeley
Reference manager from Elsevier.
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Moonlight
AI research paper reader that explains and summarizes papers as you read.
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Morphic
Open-source AI answer engine with generative UI.
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Motives
AI qualitative researcher that runs consumer interviews and focus groups.
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NotebookLM
Google's Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) that summarizes and chats over your uploaded sources, with audio overviews.
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OpenRead
AI research reading platform for summarizing and annotating papers.
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Outset
AI-moderated user interviews that give qualitative depth at survey speed and scale.
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Paper Digest
AI-powered research platform for reading, summarizing and writing with academic papers.
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Paperguide
AI research assistant for finding papers, getting cited answers and managing references.
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Paperpile
Reference management for Google Docs and Word.
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PaperQA
Open-source agentic RAG for scientific papers from FutureHouse.
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Particle
AI news reader app with multi-perspective summaries.
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Perplexity
AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources.
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Primus
Transformer Lab's autonomous research tool that runs multi-agent projects from a research question toward a paper.
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Profluent
AI protein design company.
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Prolific
Platform for recruiting research participants and human data for AI training and evaluation.
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R Discovery
Research paper discovery and reading app with AI summaries and audio papers.
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ResearchRabbit
Tool for discovering and mapping academic literature.
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Scholarcy
Summarizes research articles into flashcards with key findings and references.
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SciSpace
AI research assistant for finding, reading and summarizing academic papers.
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Scite
Searches 300M+ scholarly articles and shows how each is cited.
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Scopus AI
Elsevier's generative AI search and summaries over Scopus research literature.
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Semantic Scholar
Free AI-powered search engine for scientific literature.
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Sourcely
AI tool that finds academic sources and citations for a piece of writing.
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STORM
Stanford research project that writes Wikipedia-style articles with citations from web research.
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Tavily
Search API designed for AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation.
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TheySaid
Simulates how users will react to product changes.
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Undermind
Deep-search engine for finding academic papers.
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Vane
Open-source AI-powered answering engine (formerly Perplexica).
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Voicepanel
Runs hundreds of AI-led feedback interviews to measure what people think about a product or brand.
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Zotero
Free, open-source reference manager for collecting and citing research.