Explainpaper

Explainpaper is a web tool for reading research papers. Users upload a paper, highlight confusing text to get simple explanations (with adjustable complexity and support for 50+ languages), chat with the paper to ask questions and get answers based on its content, and view auto-generated insights such as smart outlines and key points. The page offers a free tier using basic AI models and a Pro plan at $16/month with advanced AI models, paper-wide summaries, and saved highlights and explanations, plus a 7-day Pro trial.

Key features

• Highlight any sentence to get simple explanations in your language
• Adjustable complexity from beginner to expert level
• Explanations in 50+ languages
• Context-aware explanations that consider the full paper
• Chat with your paper and ask questions based on its content
• Cite specific sections and jump to relevant parts
• Follow-up questions
• Summarize findings and get overviews of key results
• Auto-generated smart outlines, key points extraction, and concept relationships
• Pro: generate summaries for the entire paper, save highlights and explanations, ask questions about your paper

Best suited for

• Researchers reading dense academic papers
• Students learning complex concepts from research papers
• Readers new to a technical field such as ML

Pricing

Free plan: $0/month with unlimited highlight explanations, follow-up questions, and basic AI models. Pro plan: $16/month with advanced AI models, entire-paper summaries, saved highlights and explanations, and paper Q&A. A 7-day Pro trial is offered with a card on file.