ExplainPaper records 26,016 monthly visits with -39.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Zeli records 56,147 monthly visits with -46.8% growth and Free pricing.
Highlight dense research text and get plain-language explanations instantly
Hacker News and AI paper summaries in seven languages
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| Official Domain | explainpaper.com | zeli.app |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 26.02K (26,016) | 56.15K (56,147) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -16.81K (-39.3%) | -49.3K (-46.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (28.1%) | 🇨🇳 China (65.1%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 9.69K | 39.95K |
| User Rating | 4 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Highlight dense research text and get plain-language explanations instantly
Select any confusing sentence or term and receive an immediate plain-language explanation that accounts for the rest of the paper.
Shift the reading level from beginner-friendly to expert-detail so the explanation matches your background.
Ask questions and get answers grounded in the document's actual content, with references back to the relevant sections.
Produce a smart outline, key-point extraction, and concept relationship views without reading the entire paper first.
Hacker News and AI paper summaries in seven languages
Each story carries a short summary generated from the linked article plus a standout key quote, so you can judge relevance before clicking through.
The whole feed — titles, summaries and top comment highlights — is available in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish and Russian.
Every day gets a permanent page containing every story that hit the front page, retrievable long after the feed has moved on.
Daily AI papers are surfaced with translated titles and AI summaries, making Zeli a research reader as well as a news reader.
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
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
Chat with any PDF, video, or website and get cited answers in seconds
A proactive AI reading lens for papers, videos, and web pages
A proactive AI reading lens for papers, videos, and web pages
Map the literature around the papers you love—free
Map the literature around the papers you love—free
Explore the academic literature as a visual graph of related papers
Explore the academic literature as a visual graph of related papers
Free AI Summarizer for text, articles, URLs and images
Free AI Summarizer for text, articles, URLs and images
Screen thousands of papers down to the studies that matter
Screen thousands of papers down to the studies that matter
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Turn any long article or webpage into a clean, clickable summary in one click
Turn any long article or webpage into a clean, clickable summary in one click
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One AI agent for finding, reading and writing with real research
AI summaries and study guides for scientific papers
AI summaries and study guides for scientific papers
