✍️ Write & research
Write, check and summarise text and sources
Writing · 17 tools · full ranking →
Grammarly 8.9
Everywhere-you-type grammar and tone fixes: the safest first writing tool.
QuillBot 8.2
Quick paraphrasing, summarising and grammar checks for students.
Wordtune 8.2
Rewrites sentences to sound clearer and more confident. Light and handy.
Writer 8
Enterprise AI agent platform for on-brand, compliant work. For large companies.
Jasper 7.6
Marketing copy with brand voice and team workflows.
Sudowrite 7.6
Built for fiction writers: brainstorming, describing and drafting chapters.
HyperWrite 7.6
An AI writing assistant for drafting and rewriting. A solid generalist.
ProWritingAid 7.6
Grammar and style editor with AI help, built for fiction and long-form writers.
Anyword 7.6
AI copywriting for marketers that predicts which version of your copy will perform best.
TextFX 7.5
A Google experiment with AI tools for wordplay and lyric writing. Fun for creative writers.
Jenni 7.3
AI academic writing and research assistant with citations. Aimed at students and researchers; check every citation.
AI Dungeon 7.2
An AI text adventure game where you co-write endless stories. Fun for creative writing.
Quarkle 7
An AI novel editor with story memory, specialist reviews and inline revisions. Useful for fiction writers.
JotBot 6.6
AI writing assistant that mimics your style, with note-taking and source management. Aimed at students and essays.
Article Forge 6.5
Generates full SEO articles in one click. Fast, but always edit the output.
HeyFriday 5.9
An AI writer for blogs, ads and stories. Generic; similar tools are more polished.
FastRead 5.2
AI book-writing tool. Fast drafts, but expect heavy editing before anything is publishable.
Research · 14 tools · full ranking →
Perplexity 9
Answer engine with cited sources: the fastest way to research anything.
NotebookLM 9
Upload your sources and chat with them, or turn them into audio overviews. Grounded answers only.
Consensus 8.3
Search engine that answers questions from peer-reviewed science.
Semantic Scholar 8.3
Free AI-powered search engine for scientific papers, with TL;DR summaries.
Elicit 8
Research assistant for academic papers: finds, summarises and extracts data.
ResearchRabbit 8
AI literature-review tool: start from a few papers and discover related research.
Eightify 7.9
Summarizes YouTube videos into key ideas. Saves time on long talks.
Scite 7.7
Citation-backed answers: shows whether papers support or dispute a claim.
Elephas 7.6
Private AI for your own documents with sourced answers; files stay on your computer. Mac now.
Kagi 7.6
Ad-free, private search engine with Kagi Assistant for AI answers.
PDF.ai 7.6
Chat with any PDF for summaries and answers, plus an API for parsing documents.
ValidatorAI 6.9
An AI startup mentor that helps you find and pressure-test business ideas. Useful as a first sanity check, not as real customer research.
Alva 6.3
An AI investing agent to research theses, monitor narratives and backtest ideas. Not financial advice.
Memfect 6.3
Private, local-first knowledge base with AI-powered research help for science topics.
AI detectors · 6 tools · full ranking →
Originality.ai 8
AI and plagiarism checker for publishers and teachers. Treat scores as a signal, not proof.
GPTZero 7.9
Checks text for AI writing with sentence-level highlights. No AI detector is fully reliable; never use it as sole proof.
Winston AI 7.6
AI content detector and plagiarism checker. Same caveat: detectors make mistakes.
Copyleaks 7.6
AI detection and plagiarism checking used by schools and businesses.
Resemble AI 7.3
Now focused on multimodal deepfake detection and watermarking for enterprises.
ZeroGPT 6.5
Free, quick AI text detector. Handy for a rough check, but accuracy claims are unproven.