Research & Learning AI tools
Get answers with sources, study your own documents, and understand research papers.
ShipRadar tracks 10 research & learning tools; the top-ranked right now is Perplexity. Sources: Editor's pick (5), GitHub (1), Hacker News (Show HN) (2), Hugging Face Spaces (2). Ranked by traction and freshness.
Perplexity
An AI search engine. Ask a question and get a short answer with links to where the information came from.
NotebookLM
Upload your own files, like PDFs, notes, or articles, and ask questions about them. It can even turn them into a podcast-style audio summary.
Elicit
Finds research papers and pulls out the key findings into a simple table. Made for students and researchers.
Consensus
Ask a question and see what scientific studies say about it, in plain language.
Julius AI
Upload a spreadsheet and ask questions about it in plain English. It makes charts and summaries for you.
easyread
Read English research papers in Chinese, side by side with the original, and ask AI questions as you go.
Panel
A research workspace where the AI can build its own panels and tools as it goes.
LightOnOCR-3 Demo
Free online demo that reads scanned documents and turns them into editable text while keeping the layout.
Graphene
Data-analysis tools for AI coding helpers.
Carbon-A Database Explorer
A tool for scientists searching genome data. Nothing to do with everyday AI.