Tools for researchers

AI tools for researchers —
skim faster, write clearer.

Summarize papers and articles, build mind maps of topic areas, outline your own writing, check grammar and translate abstracts.

How researchers use this.

A real workflow, not a list of apps. Each step chains into the next — summary becomes flashcards, outline becomes draft, draft gets polished.

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    Summarize PDFs without reading every page. Upload a paper — get TL;DR, section-by-section summary, quoted passages with page numbers, and a list of key claims. Great for scanning a reading list quickly.

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    Skim reviews and secondary sources faster. Article Summarizer handles URLs and pasted text; YouTube Summarizer handles lectures and conference talks. All return extractable key points.

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    See the topic landscape. Mind Map Generator turns a reading list, a topic, or a summary into a visual map of claims and sub-topics — useful for spotting gaps, building lit-review structure, or planning your own contribution.

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    Stake your claim. Thesis Statement Generator returns 3-5 distinct options graded on claim specificity, reasoning preview, scope, and arguability — useful when you're defending a new interpretation to a seminar or committee. Pick the one that matches your evidence, then feed it into the outline.

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    Draft with structure. Essay Outline Generator (pick "research" or "analytical" type) returns a thesis + introduction + sectioned body + counter-arguments + suggested source types — with no fabricated citations. You fill in the real ones.

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Ready when you are.

Free to try — no signup for the first few runs per day of any tool. A free account adds 30 credits/month and saves your work.

Common questions from researchers.

Does the PDF Summarizer cite page numbers?

Yes — each extracted quote is labeled with its page. The section-by-section summary preserves the paper's structure so you can find the source passage quickly.

Will the Essay Outline generator invent citations?

No. It returns *source types* (e.g. "peer-reviewed study on adolescent screen time", "census data on remote-work adoption") but never a specific citation. Real sources are your job. Prompt-forbidden to make up authors or DOIs.

Is it OK to use these for my thesis?

For editing, grammar, outlining, and summarization: almost always fine — check your institution's policy. For generating large blocks of your actual argument: generally not. Our tools are designed to help you *work faster*, not replace authorial voice.

What languages does the translator handle?

20+ including English, Japanese, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Korean, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, Italian. Technical / academic prose translates well; we preserve register.

How long can the input documents be?

PDF Summarizer: ~50 pages per run. Article Summarizer: up to roughly 50,000 characters (about 10,000 words). For longer documents, split into sections and summarize each.

Do you train your models on my uploads?

No. We use ofox.ai as our inference provider and don't retain content for training. Inputs are cached server-side for 7 days to avoid recomputing identical requests, then purged.

Tools for other workflows.