AI Directory

Discover the best AI tools

1080 AI tools rated, compared, and explained with an ASEAN lens — from ChatGPT to niche agents.

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Research & Data · 24 tools
Perplexity AI
The AI-powered answer engine that cites its sources — every answer linked to live web results.
Freemium
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NotebookLM
Source-grounded research notebook with podcast-style summaries
Freemium
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Julius AI
Data analysis chatbot for non-engineers
Freemium
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Perplexity Pages
AI-powered publishing tool that creates comprehensive, formatted web pages from a topic in minutes.
Freemium
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Dimensions AI
The world's largest research database with AI-powered discovery and grant intelligence for researchers and fun...
Freemium
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Research Rabbit
Visual literature discovery tool that maps the citation network around any paper — free for academics.
Free
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Explainpaper
Highlight any confusing passage in an academic paper and get an instant plain-English explanation.
Freemium
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Nuclia
AI search and knowledge platform
Freemium
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You.com Research
You.com's deep-research agent
Freemium
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Hex
Collaborative data analytics with AI assistant
Freemium
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Zotero
Open-source reference manager
Open Source
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Mendeley
Academic reference manager (Elsevier)
Freemium
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Glasp
Social web-highlighter with AI summaries
Freemium
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ResearchRabbit
Citation graph explorer for academic research
Free
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Semantic Scholar
Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 220 million papers with semantic understanding.
Free
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Open Knowledge Maps
Free visual knowledge map of any topic — shows how research clusters relate to each other at a glance.
Free
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Rayyan
AI-powered systematic review platform that screens thousands of research abstracts for inclusion in reviews.
Freemium
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Inciteful
Citation-graph-driven literature exploration (free)
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Elicit (Scholarcy)
AI research summariser that extracts key findings, tables, and references from academic papers in seconds.
Freemium
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Consensus
Search engine for scientific research that tells you what the evidence actually says on any question.
Freemium
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Jhana
AI paralegal searching 16M+ Indian judgments and statutes with citations
Freemium
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Wren AI
Open-source GenBI agent and context layer for querying business data
Freemium
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Elicit
AI research assistant for finding papers, extracting data, and synthesizing evidence.
Freemium
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STORM (Stanford)
Open-source system that researches a topic and writes a cited, Wikipedia-style report.
Open Source
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