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ResearchPal is a new app designed especially for academic writing.

It has a built-in search engine. You can look up papers, save them to your library, and extract key insights.

It can also help you with literature review and drafting your paper.

Here's how to use it:
Go to researchpal(dot)co and sign up for a free account.

Once you have logged in, click on "Projects" and create a new project.
Open the project you just created. ResearchPal will give you a list of tools in the left taskbar.

Click on "Library" and upload papers relevant to your project. At the moment, ResearchPal only lets you upload papers one by one.

It also has Zotero and Mendeley integrations but I didn't find them very helpful. Mendeley integration didn't work for me. And it retrieved only a few articles from my Zotero library.

Maybe folks at ResearchPal will improve these integrations in the future.
ResearchPal has a built-in search function, which is really helpful.

It's like having Google Scholar inside your MS Word.

Click on "Search Papers" and type in keywords related to your project.

While the idea of a built-in search function is great, it needs some work. I looked up "world literature david damrosch" and it included irrelevant papers on neural networks.

That said, having a search function is awesome.
ResearchPal also lets you save relevant articles. Click on the "Save" button to do so.

All your saved articles and those in your library will show up in the "References" tab. This is very convenient.
Another great functionality ResearchPal provides is it lets you extract insights from papers in your library.

Select a few papers in your library and click on "Add to Paper Insights." ResearchPal will give summaries of the articles.

You can add several additional columns too like Conclusions, Results, Literature Survey, etc.

This can help you go through key insights of a lot of papers very quickly. You can use this feature to figure out papers that are most relevant to your project.
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ResearchPal also has a "Literature Review" tab.

I am not a fan of AI-generated literature reviews — they are predictable and lack originality.

That said, this function can help you move in the right direction.

Click on "Literature Review" and type in keywords related to your project. ResearchPal will give you a write-up with references to published papers.

I looked up "pakistani literature and world literature" and found an interesting paper that was published just last week.
7. ResearchPal also has a document editor that lets you draft your paper.
The document editor has a useful function of AI commands that you can use to look up information.

For example, I am writing a paper on 19th century colonial India and needed a brief introduction to East India Company.

ResearchPal gave me a short write-up that I can use an inspiration to draft a few relevant sentences.
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Chat Academia now lets you do this in a matter of minutes.

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It's free and very easy to use: A graph generated by NextNet.
1. Go to getnextnet[.]com and click on "Get NextNet free."

Sign up for a free account.
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Research Kick can help you with it.

It analyzes millions of papers in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed to help you find research gaps — in minutes.

Here's how to use it: A screenshot of Research Kick showing that a research question has not been adequately answered in published literature.
1. Go to and click on "Get started."

Sign up with your email or Google account.

To use the app, you will need to buy a subscription plan:

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Select a model you want to use.
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Most AI apps for research need paid subscriptions, but Bohrium is free.

• Integrates Deep Seek with databases containing 160M+ papers.

• Answers questions with references to published papers.

Here's how to use Bohrium to supercharge your literature discovery:
1. Go to bohrium(dot)com and click on "Log in" in the bottom-left corner.

Enter your email to sign up for a free account.
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So, researchers at Future House built an AI scientist.

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1. Go to futurehouse[.]org.

Click on "Platform" in the top-right corner. Sign up for a free account.

Future House has four AI agents:

• Crow: Concise search
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Now it supports 50+ languages.

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• Ask question about papers
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All this in your own language and that too for free.
1. Go to notebooklm[.]google[.]com.

Click on "Create new notebook" and upload a paper.

NotebookLM will give you its summary.
2. Click on "Settings" in the top-right corner and select "Output Language."

From the dropdown menu, select your language and click on "Save."
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