Best Research & search AI Tools

Scopus AI answers research questions with summaries drawn from Scopus, Elsevier's curated abstract and citation database. It shows the references behind each summary and highlights foundational papers and leading experts.

ReadCube helps researchers discover, read, annotate, organize and cite literature, now with an AI assistant that answers questions from your library and large paper and patent databases. It replaces the Papers app, whose Pro tier became ReadCube Plus.

Pl@ntNet identifies a plant species from a photo you take with the app and builds a shared record of plant biodiversity. It suits hikers, gardeners and students, and its observations feed a citizen science project and open datasets.

Parallel builds web search infrastructure for AI, offering a Search API and a Task API that runs multi-step deep research and returns structured, cited answers. Developers choose processor tiers to trade cost against depth.

Metaso, known in China as Mita AI Search, is an ad-free AI search engine that answers questions with sources, outlines and mind maps. It offers academic search and a research mode for longer, structured reports.

AI Mode is a tab in Google Search that answers complex questions with an AI-written response and links to sources. It splits your question into subtopics, searches them at the same time and lets you ask follow-ups.

Gemini Notebook lets you add PDFs, Google Docs, websites, YouTube videos and audio to a notebook, then ask questions answered only from those sources with citations. It also creates study guides, mind maps and audio overviews.

Felo is an AI search engine that answers questions with sources in many languages and lets you pick the AI model. It can turn search results into presentation slides, mind maps and documents.

Exa is a web search engine designed for AI systems, returning full page content and semantic matches through an API. It also offers Websets, which finds and enriches lists of companies, people or papers that match detailed criteria.

Dovetail gathers customer feedback from calls, interviews, support tickets, surveys and documents, then uses AI to classify it, find themes and answer questions about it. Product, design, research and customer teams use it as a shared source of customer evidence.

Covidence is a web platform for running systematic reviews, from importing references to screening, risk-of-bias assessment and data extraction. Machine learning sorts studies by relevance and filters randomized controlled trials.

Brave Search runs on its own independent web index and shows AI-generated answers with sources at the top of results. It does not track users or build profiles, and you can ask follow-up questions in a chat-style mode.

Bohrium is a research platform from DP Technology that combines AI academic search, paper reading, knowledge management and scientific computing. It is aimed at scientists in fields like chemistry, materials and biology.

Anara, formerly Unriddle, keeps a library of your papers and documents and lets you search, summarize and write with every answer linked to the source passage. It also searches academic databases like PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov.

alphaXiv is a platform for reading and discussing arXiv preprints, with comments anchored to specific lines of a paper. AI features summarize papers, answer questions and explain sections, which helps researchers keep up with new work.

AlphaSense is a market research platform that searches company filings, earnings call transcripts, broker research, news and expert interviews. Its generative AI summarizes findings and answers questions with citations for analysts and strategy teams.