Yomu

Yomu is a browser-based academic writing assistant for essays, papers, literature reviews and theses. It combines a document editor with section drafting, autocomplete, editing commands, citation lookup across 700+ styles, a reusable source library, figure and table handling, and a plagiarism checker.

Yomu is an academic writing assistant built around the long-form document rather than the chat window. The editor lives in the browser at app.yomu.ai and is aimed at students and researchers producing essays, literature reviews, research papers and theses. Instead of generating a wall of text and leaving you to reconcile it with reality, Yomu keeps drafting, sourcing and cleanup inside one workspace, with citations attached as you go. The workflow starts with a prompt. You describe the paper, choose an outline (with or without headings), and pick between an outline-only response or a full researched document with citations. From there the Document Assistant can draft whole sections and return feedback, while autocomplete finishes sentences and paragraphs as you type. Editing commands handle the less glamorous half of writing: paraphrasing, expanding, shortening, summarizing, and converting bullet points into prose. A get feedback mode runs focused academic reviews that you can preview and apply, and Ask AI lets you rework selected text in your own phrasing. Sourcing is the differentiator. A citation tool powered by Sourcely searches for and formats references across more than 700 citation styles, and saved sources sit in a personal library that can be reused across documents. Figures and tables can be added, captioned and referenced in the text. A plagiarism checker, paired with a published ethics statement, is intended to keep originality checks part of the routine rather than a panic step before submission. A separate chat surface answers questions about writing and research, and accepts PDFs, images and web search. Yomu fits between a general chatbot and a reference manager. It is closer to a word processor with a research layer than to a citation database or a pure grammar checker, and it sits alongside the company's other tools, the Sourcely source finder and the Revise style checker. Writers who need nothing beyond proofreading will find it heavy; those stuck on structure, sources and formatting deadlines are the intended audience.