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AlianHub
✓ verifiedFreemium
AlianHub is an open-source, self-hosted project manager with ten views, time tracking, chat, and AI, free for unlimited users.
2.4K visits/mo
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Paperpal
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI academic writing assistant for researchers and students, with grammar, paraphrasing, citations and plagiarism/AI checks.
1.5M visits/mo16K saves
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Smartlead
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A cold-email platform for sales teams offering unlimited mailboxes, automated warm-up, lead verification, and deliverability infrastructure.
1.1M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (unlimited users and projects, self-hosted)
No public pricing
Base: $39/month (2,000 contacts, 6,000 sends, 2,000 verified emails)
Pro: $94/month (30,000 contacts, 90,000 sends, 30,000 verified emails)
Smart: $174/month (150,000 sends, 50,000 verified emails)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Ten project views (List, Board, Table, etc.)
- ✦Native time tracking and timesheets
- ✦Built-in chat and channels
- ✦AI task, sub-task, and sprint generation
- ✦12+ custom field types and dashboards
- ✦40+ granular permissions, self-hosted
- ✦academic grammar checker
- ✦AI writing and paraphrasing
- ✦research search and citation across 250M+ articles
- ✦chat with PDFs
- ✦plagiarism checker
- ✦AI content detector
- ✦submission-readiness checks
- ✦plugins for Word, Docs and Overleaf
- ✦Unlimited mailbox connections with automatic warm-up
- ✦Dedicated sending infrastructure to protect sender reputation
- ✦Built-in email verification and 3x-verified lead sourcing
- ✦Unified inbox to manage replies across the whole pipeline
- ✦Deliverability monitoring with real-time bounce and spam tracking
- ✦APIs and automation for scaling outbound campaigns
Use cases
- →Self-hosting team project management
- →Tracking time and capacity
- →Running agile sprints with built-in chat
- →writing and polishing research manuscripts
- →checking grammar and academic tone
- →generating citations
- →summarizing papers
- →preparing journal submissions
- →Running large-scale cold email campaigns across many mailboxes
- →Building and verifying outbound prospect lists
- →Protecting domain reputation while sending high volumes of email
- →Consolidating replies from multiple sequences into one inbox
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