Scispace

SciSpace (formerly Typeset) is an AI-powered research assistant built to help academics move through the full arc of a research project — finding relevant papers, reviewing existing literature, drafting a manuscript, and citing sources correctly — inside a single web application. Rather than treating search, note-taking, and writing as separate tools, SciSpace bundles them into one workspace, with a chat-style interface ("How can I help with your research?") that lets users direct different tasks to purpose-built modules. At its core is a literature search and review engine that draws on a stated index of more than 280 million papers, letting users run systematic reviews without manually trawling multiple academic databases. Alongside this sits an AI Writer for drafting papers with cited sources, a "Chat with PDF" feature for querying uploaded documents directly, a paraphraser, a citation generator, a data-extraction tool, an AI content detector, and utilities for generating diagrams and presentations from research material. An "Agent Gallery" and template library extend the platform beyond a single fixed workflow, letting users pick task-specific agents for things like topic discovery or structured extraction. The tool is aimed squarely at people who read and write academic papers for a living or a degree: undergraduate and graduate students, PhD candidates, and career researchers, plus it says it serves R&D teams inside pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare organizations that need to process scientific literature at scale. The homepage cites use by researchers at institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford, and by companies including Boston Consulting Group, Reckitt, and Libbs Pharmaceuticals, positioning it as credible for both individual academic work and corporate research functions. In practice, a user would start a session, choose a mode — search, literature review, draft, diagrams, or presentation — and work through that specific task with AI assistance rather than switching between separate apps for search, reference management, and writing. Within the broader field of AI research tools, SciSpace differentiates itself by consolidating discovery, review, and drafting into one product instead of specializing in only one stage of the research pipeline. It offers a free signup tier alongside paid and enterprise plans for teams needing broader access.