
AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed science

12 alternatives to The Science App, matched by what they do.
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| ● | The Science App | thescience.app | 0 | 0 (0%) | Free | Global | 4.2 | Profile |
| 1 | Consensus | consensus.app | 6.01M | -71.39K (-1.2%) | Freemium | United States | 4.7 | Compare |
| 2 | Scite | scite.ai | 841.97K | 8.94K (+1.1%) | Free Trial, Contact for Pricing | Indonesia | 4.6 | Compare |
| 3 | SciSpace | scispace.com | 4.46M | 355.38K (+8.6%) | Freemium | United States | 4.6 | Compare |
| 4 | Semantic Scholar | semanticscholar.org | 8.2M | 450.65K (+5.8%) | Free | United States | 4.8 | Compare |
| 5 | Perplexity | perplexity.ai | 88.31M | -3.39M (-3.7%) | Freemium | United States | 4.7 | Compare |
| 6 | CiteTrue | citetrue.com | 43.07K | -6.96K (-13.9%) | Free | United States | 4.1 | Compare |
| 7 | Paper Digest | paperdigest.org | 97.2K | -7.42K (-7.1%) | Freemium | United States | 4.5 | Compare |
| 8 | WisPaper | wispaper.ai | 107.82K | 116 (+0.1%) | Freemium | China | 4.3 | Compare |
| 9 | ResearchRabbit | researchrabbit.ai | 831.57K | 25.19K (+3.1%) | Free | United States | 4.5 | Compare |
| 10 | Paperguide | paperguide.ai | 371.97K | -11.05K (-2.9%) | Freemium | United States | 4.4 | Compare |
| 11 | CitedEvidence | citedevidence.com | 24.67K | 4.18K (+20.4%) | Paid | South Africa | 4.3 | Compare |
| 12 | Elicit | elicit.com | 1.75M | 52.71K (+3.1%) | Freemium | United States | 4.6 | Compare |

AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed science
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts

AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers

A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Free AI citation checker that catches fake and hallucinated references
Free AI citation checker that catches fake and hallucinated references
AI-powered platform to read, write, and stay current with research

Screen thousands of papers down to the studies that matter
Screen thousands of papers down to the studies that matter

Map the literature around the papers you love—free
Map the literature around the papers you love—free
AI-native workspace for literature reviews and auditable systematic reviews
AI-native workspace for literature reviews and auditable systematic reviews

Research reports built from 300M+ real scholarly papers — every claim cited and DOI-checked
Research reports built from 300M+ real scholarly papers — every claim cited and DOI-checked
AI research assistant for evidence-based literature review and synthesis