SciSpace
Chat with papers and run literature reviews
Reads PDFs with you: explain jargon and equations, extract methods, and compare papers side by side in review matrices, across a 280M-paper index. Free tier; Premium $12/mo annual; lab plans for teams.
What it does
SciSpace (formerly Typeset) is a workspace for reading and reviewing scientific literature: upload or find a paper, highlight anything confusing — jargon, equations, dense methods — and get an explanation in context.
Its literature review tools pull multiple papers into comparison matrices, extracting fields across studies, backed by an index the company states at 280M+ papers.
The free tier offers limited copilot queries; Premium runs $12/mo on annual billing, with team and lab plans (about $20/user or $100/mo for five-plus seats) for research groups.
From the AXIS Launch team
The highlight-and-explain interaction meets readers exactly where comprehension breaks down, which makes it quietly one of the better learning tools wearing a research-tool label. If you're the maker: what share of your users are students versus practicing researchers, and does the product roadmap follow that split?
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