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Gemini Notebook vs SciSpace
Gemini Notebook scores higher overall (8.8 vs 7.2), but the right pick depends on what you need.
Choose Gemini Notebook if…
Students and researchers who already have their sources and want to understand, question and summarise them
8.8/10★★★★★Full review →Choose SciSpace if…
Students who want reading help, literature review and writing tools in one subscription
7.2/10★★★★★Full review →Side by side
| Gemini Notebook | SciSpace | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 8.8/10 | 7.2/10 |
| Rank in category | #1 of 10 | #9 of 10 |
| Price | Freemium · from $4.99/month | Freemium · from $12/month |
| Free version | 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook and standard usage limits | Limited free use (about 100 credits a month, per Rework) |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, iOS, Chrome extension |
| Made by | PubGenius Inc. | |
| Research quality | 9 | 7 |
| Ease of use | 9 | 7.5 |
| Features | 7 | 7.5 |
| Value for money | 9.5 | 7 |
| Platforms | 9.5 | 7 |
Gemini Notebook: what the AI does
- Answers grounded only in your sources, with clickable citations
- Audio Overviews and Video Overviews
- Reports, quizzes, flashcards and slide decks from your sources
- Code execution for data analysis on uploaded data
- Notebooks synced with the Gemini app
- Low hallucination risk because answers come only from your sources
- Citations jump straight to the quoted passage
- Generous free plan and very cheap paid entry
- Turns the same sources into audio, video and study formats
- Not a discovery tool: you have to collect the sources first
- Slide-deck revisions don't consult your sources, per one review
- Usage is now compute-based, so it's hard to predict how much you get
SciSpace: what the AI does
- Semantic search across 270M+ papers
- Chat with PDF that explains equations and figures
- Deep Review literature reviews
- Multi-paper summary tables with custom columns
- AI writer, paraphraser and citation generator
- Explains dense methods and maths in plain language
- Customisable comparison tables across papers
- Many tools under one subscription
- Credits run out fast in heavy research weeks
- iOS app is rated poorly
- Reports of surprise auto-renewal charges