Best AI research tools

22 ai research tools in the Tool Hut catalog — compare them, find alternatives, and track the ones you actually use.

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Perplexity
Answer engine that cites live web sources — best for quick factual research.
Elicit
AI research assistant for academic papers — summarises, extracts, and synthesises.
Consensus
Searches peer-reviewed research and surfaces consensus across studies.
NotebookLM
Google's document-grounded AI — upload sources and ask questions across them.
Audiogest
AI meeting and interview processor — transcribes, summarises, and extracts action items from audio.
Semantic Scholar
Allen Institute's free academic search across 200M+ papers with AI summaries.
scite
Shows how papers cite each other — supporting vs contrasting evidence.
ResearchRabbit
Visual literature discovery — map related papers and authors over time.
Connected Papers
Generate a visual graph of papers related to any seed work.
SciSpace
Read, understand, and chat with research papers; explains jargon inline.
Scholarcy
Summarises papers into flashcards with key points and references.
Humata
Ask questions across your PDFs and long documents with cited answers.
ChatPDF
Upload a PDF and chat with it — quick Q&A over any document.
Explainpaper
Highlight confusing parts of a paper and get plain-language explanations.
Wolfram Alpha
Computational knowledge engine for maths, science, and data queries.
Glean
Enterprise AI search and assistant across your company's apps and docs.
Hebbia
AI for deep document analysis across large financial and legal corpora.
Undermind
Deep scientific search agent that runs thorough multi-step literature scans.
STORM
Stanford's tool that researches a topic and writes a cited, wiki-style report.
Iris.ai
Researcher workspace for systematic reviews and literature mapping.
Afforai
Reference manager that chats with your library and drafts with citations.
Recall
Summarises and connects articles, videos, and notes into a knowledge base.