📚 Study, summaries & research
9 AI tools and 3 problem-first rankings for study, summaries & research, with prices in USD. Rankings are never for sale. Methodology
Rankings
Best AI to summarize PDFs, slides and research papers
Summarize long PDFs or slides (including Arabic) and turn them into notes or flashcards.
🥇 Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Best AI for research papers with reliable references
Find real, citable sources for a thesis or paper.
🥇 Consensus
Best AI for students (study, summaries, research)
You are a student and want AI that helps you study, summarise and research, ideally free.
🥇 Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Tools
ChatGPT
OpenAI's general assistant: chat, files, images, voice and agents.
Claude
Anthropic's assistant, strong at long documents, writing and coding.
Perplexity
Answer engine that cites its web sources.
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Upload your sources and get summaries, audio overviews and study aids.
Elicit
AI research assistant for finding and summarizing papers.
SciSpace
Read, explain and review research papers with AI.
Consensus
Search engine that answers from peer-reviewed studies.
Gamma
Generate decks, docs and web pages from a prompt or notes.
Quizlet
Flashcards and AI study tools.