
CiteStamp alternatives
Tools that do what CiteStamp does, found by what they say they do rather than by shelf. Among the equally alike, the most used come first. Each line says how it differs from CiteStamp.
Read 2026-10-24 · CiteStamp itself: Free plan · From $35/yr
With a free plan or free to use: AcaTrove, CiteMe, Refyc, Lune, Amass, note.md.
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AcaTroveKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Answers questions from your own papers and the open literature with retrieved passages, drafts grant narratives, and checks citations against cited papers.
Also: Search, Writing
103ActiveFrom $5/mo - #2

CiteMeMCP · open
Looks up a DOI, ISBN, URL or title in scholarly indexes and formats the record as a citation, flagging unverified results.
Also: SearchMore widely used
69.3kActiveFrom $3.75/mo2024 - #3

RefycKnowledge
Builds knowledge graphs from public sources, mapping connections between people, organizations, and events with cited sources.
Also: RAG, Search
4ActiveFrom $5 per use - #4

SyntologyKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Indexes ML papers, authors and code into a citation graph and checks reference implementations against their source papers.
Also: Search
Little sign of useFrom $0.03 per use - #5

LuneKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Connects AI agents to computer science research papers for literature review, experimentation design, and peer review without hallucination.
Also: RAGMore widely used
54ActiveFrom $4.99/mo - #6

AI for ResearchKnowledge
Searches scientific papers and checks whether later studies support or contradict each claim, then grounds AI answers in those papers.
Also: Search, Chat assistantMore widely used
16.7kActiveFrom $12/mo - #7

AmassKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Answers research questions by searching papers, trials, patents and regulatory records, citing the record behind each claim.
Also: SearchAround longer, since 2022
1kActiveFrom $9/mo2022 - #8

note.mdKnowledge
macOS app combining PDF reader, reference manager, markdown editor, and writing environment with on-device AI.
Also: Writing, AnalyticsMore widely used
38ActiveFrom $8.99/mo2025 - #9

PaperguideKnowledge
Searches scientific papers, manages references, extracts study data into cited tables and drafts citation-grounded writing for literature and systematic reviews.
Also: Data extraction, SearchMore widely used
66kActiveFrom $12/user/mo - #10

SciMasterKnowledge
AI research platform for finding papers, checking citations, reviewing literature and drawing scientific figures.
More widely used
53.2kMaintained
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