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Chiaro AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

iOS app that turns a photo of art or a landmark into an instant spoken audio guide, with follow-up Q&A and local tips.

2.0K visits/mo11K saves
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Semantic Scholar
✓ verifiedFree

Free AI search over 237m+ scientific papers from Ai2, with TLDR summaries, an augmented reader and a public API.

7.9M visits/mo13K saves
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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.

2.1M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

Free: Free
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
Core features
  • Photo-based recognition of art and landmarks
  • Instant audio narration with adjustable depth
  • Museum-aware deeper analysis
  • Context-aware chat for follow-ups
  • Bilingual landmark names
  • Local recommendations linked to Google Maps
  • Search across 237 million-plus papers from all fields of science
  • Machine learning that extracts meaning and connections from inside papers
  • TLDR one-line summaries of papers
  • Semantic Reader (beta) with in-line citation cards and a table of contents
  • Personal library, research feeds and alerts
  • Public API with paper search and documentation
  • Free account, no paid tier
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
Use cases
  • Get instant context on artworks and buildings
  • Self-guided museum tours
  • Explore a city without a guidebook
  • Find nearby local spots
  • Finding the papers that matter on an unfamiliar topic
  • Reading a paper without paging back and forth to chase its citations
  • Keeping a personal library and following new work in a field
  • Building a scholarly application on the API
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
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