Paperguide alternatives
Tools that do what Paperguide 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 Paperguide.
Read 2026-10-21 · Paperguide itself: From $12/user/mo
With a free plan or free to use: CoChat, Lune, AcaTrove, Liner, Amass.
- #1
CoChatKnowledge
Searches academic papers, verifies citations against real sources, and organizes research findings in a collaborative workspace.
Free plan
201ActiveFrom $9/mo2025 - #2
LuneKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Connects AI agents to computer science research papers for literature review, experimentation design, and peer review without hallucination.
Free planAlso: RAG
54ActiveFrom $4.99/mo - #3
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.
Free plan
103ActiveFrom $5/mo - #4
LinerKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Searches academic research, generates citations, and drafts professional documents with cited sources.
Free planAlso: RAG
12.8kActiveFrom $14.99/user/mo - #5
EzelLegalMCP · sign-in
Drafts, reviews and tracks changes to legal documents, answers questions from uploaded case files with citations, and fills court forms.
Also: Chat assistant
12.2kFrom $49 once - #6
AmassKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Answers research questions by searching papers, trials, patents and regulatory records, citing the record behind each claim.
Free plan
1kActiveFrom $9/mo2022 - #7
SciMasterKnowledge
AI research platform for finding papers, checking citations, reviewing literature and drawing scientific figures.
More widely used
53.2kMaintained - #8
LivingMetaKnowledgeMCP · sign-in
Screens and classifies research papers, extracts claims with verbatim source quotes, and derives research-gap agendas for living systematic reviews.
Also: Chat assistant
Little sign of useMaintained - #9
NoteGPTKnowledge
Summarizes lectures, videos, and documents; generates notes, slides, and audio content for learning and research.
Also: Summarization, VideoMore widely used
1.3MActiveFrom $9.99/mo - #10
GleanKnowledge
Indexes company apps like Slack, Drive and Jira into one permission-aware search, with a chat assistant and agents that answer from that index.
Also: AgentsMore widely used
63.5kActiveContact sales2019
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