NotebookLM alternatives
NotebookLM: Turns your own documents into a notebook you can question, and a podcast about them. If it isn't quite right, here are 14 other AI research and search tools from Radar, in Radar's order.
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PerplexityAsk anything, get an answer written from the web with every source cited.Free plan - 2
ElicitFinds the papers on a question and pulls the findings out into a table.Free plan - 3
ConsensusAnswers questions from peer-reviewed studies, and shows how far they agree.Free plan - 4
Semantic ScholarAi2's search engine for scientific papers, with one-line summaries of each.Free - 5
Kagi AssistantThe ad-free search engine's assistant: the big models, grounded in Kagi's results.Paid - 6You.comSearch and research agents that write up what they find, with citations.Free plan
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SciSpaceReads papers with you: explains passages, compares studies and drafts literature reviews.Free plan - 8
SciteShows how a paper has been cited, supported, disputed or just mentioned.Paid - 9
ResearchRabbitMaps the papers around the ones you care about, and keeps you posted on new ones.Free - 10
Connected PapersA visual graph of the papers related to any one you start from.Free plan - 11
UndermindA research agent that reads hundreds of papers to find the ones that really answer you.Free plan - 12
LinerAn AI search engine for students and researchers, with trustworthy sources.Free plan - 13
FeloMultilingual AI search that can turn its answers into slides and mind maps.Free plan - 14
ChatPDFUpload a PDF and ask it questions; answers point back to the page.Free plan
Free to start: Perplexity, Elicit, Consensus.