SciSpace review
7.2/10★★★★★All-in-one AI platform for literature reviews, chatting with PDFs and academic writing
- Best for
- Students who want reading help, literature review and writing tools in one subscription
- Price
- Freemium · from $12/month
Free: Limited free use (about 100 credits a month, per Rework) - Platforms
- Web, iOS, Chrome extension
- Made by
- PubGenius Inc.
- App store ratings
- iOS 2.6★ (11)
What it is
SciSpace searches more than 270 million papers, explains equations, figures and methods in plain language, and summarises multiple papers into customisable tables. It also bundles a Deep Review mode, chat with PDF, paraphrasing, citation generation and an AI detector.
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
Pros and cons
- 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
How it scores
Broad toolset for reading and reviewing papers; credit limits and weak mobile app pull it down.
Feature checklist · 5 of 9
- Searches a large database of academic papers (yes)
- Answers from your own uploaded PDFs and documents (yes)
- Inline citations linked to the exact source (yes)
- Multi-step deep research reports (yes)
- Extracts details from papers into tables (yes)
- Shows whether studies support or contradict a claim (no)
- Discovers related papers through citations or recommendations (no)
- Exports citations or connects to Zotero (no)
- Useful free plan (no)
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- ChatGPT deep research 8.0/10Professionals who want a thorough written briefing on a complex topic