CATEGORY · 54 tools

AI research tools

Research tools help you search, read and summarise sources: academic papers, PDFs, web results, market data or your own documents. The most useful ones make it easy to see exactly where each statement comes from.

Summaries can drop caveats or attribute a claim to the wrong source. Use these tools to find and triage material faster, then read the passages that matter yourself before citing them.

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Iris.ai

Research

Iris.ai provides an AI knowledge foundation for enterprises, structuring documents into a knowledge graph so AI answers are grounded, traceable and auditable.

Unknown

Julius AI

Research

Julius AI is an AI workspace for data analysis, research and reporting that answers questions about your data in plain language and builds charts, slides and sites.

Freemium

Kagi

Research

Kagi is a paid, ad-free search engine with Kagi Assistant, which gives access to models from several AI labs grounded in Kagi Search results.

Paid

Litmaps

Research

Litmaps is a literature review tool that turns seed articles into interactive citation maps, recommends related papers and sends alerts on new research.

Freemium

NotebookLM (Gemini Notebook)

Research

NotebookLM, renamed Gemini Notebook in July 2026, is Google’s research notebook that answers from your sources and creates audio overviews, reports and flashcards.

Freemium

Pandachat

Research

Pandachat AI is a document‑analysis platform that lets students, researchers, and professionals upload files, ask questions, and receive instant, parsed or summarized information directly from the content.

Unknown

PaperBrain

Research

PaperBrain is an AI‑driven research assistant that helps students, researchers, and academicians locate scholarly articles, generate concise abstracts, and extract actionable insights from uploaded documents.

Unknown

Paperpal

Research

Paperpal is an AI‑driven assistant that helps researchers, academics, writers, and students improve academic manuscripts.

Unknown

Perplexity

Research

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the web in real time and replies with cited sources, plus deep research reports and an API.

Freemium

Petal

Research

Petal is a document workspace with AI that answers questions from your own knowledge bases with full sources, plus a synchronised cloud drive.

Unknown

ResearchRabbit

Research

ResearchRabbit is a literature discovery tool that starts from seed papers and maps related work, authors and citations as an interactive graph.

Freemium

Rewind

Research

Rewind is a productivity‑focused AI assistant that captures, compresses, and indexes a user’s digital interactions.

Unknown

Before you choose

  1. Check whether answers cite specific passages you can open and verify.
  2. Test the tool on a subject you know well to spot errors and omissions.
  3. Confirm which sources and databases are covered, and how recent they are.
  4. Check limits on document size, number of uploads and file types.
  5. Read how uploaded documents are stored and whether they are used for training.

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