AI tools for students

Every tool here is reviewed for one thing: whether a student can actually get value from it. Filter by category, cost or the task you need to get done.

11 tools

Claude

Studying Free plan

Anthropic's AI assistant, often used for working through long documents and detailed explanation.

Getting a quick, evidence-based read on what the research says about a claim

Elicit

Research Free plan

Automating literature reviews by extracting answers from many papers at once

Gemini

Studying Free plan

Google's AI assistant, integrated with Google's own products.

A Google research assistant that answers questions using only the sources you upload.

An AI search engine that answers questions and cites the sources it used.

Reading dense academic PDFs with an AI chat assistant alongside the text

Scite

Research Free plan

Checking whether other papers actually support or contradict a source before citing it

Scribbr

Writing Free plan

Generating correctly formatted citations and checking a paper for AI-generated text or plagiarism

Collecting sources and generating citations/bibliographies automatically in any style