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Explainpaper
AI reader for research papers that explains highlighted text, answers paper questions, and summarizes academic content.
Explainpaper lets users upload research papers, highlight confusing passages, and receive explanations adjusted for different reading levels and available in 50+ languages. It can answer follow-up questions using the paper's content, cite relevant sections, and generate outlines, key points, and concept relationships.
Researchers, students, and other academic readers can import a Zotero library. The Free plan includes unlimited highlight explanations and follow-up questions using basic AI models. Pro adds advanced models, Math Explain for formulas and figures, full-paper summaries, saved highlights, and paper questions.
Features
- Explain highlighted passages in context
- Adjust explanation complexity from beginner to expert
- Provide explanations in 50+ languages
- Answer questions and follow-ups about a paper
- Generate paper outlines, key points, and concept relationships
- Explain math formulas and figures with Math Explain
- Import a Zotero library
- Save highlights and explanations on Pro
Use cases
- Understand difficult passages in academic papers
- Ask follow-up questions while reading research
- Review a paper's structure and key findings
- Interpret formulas and figures in technical papers
- Import Zotero papers into a guided reading workflow
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Starting price
- Free
- Pricing checked
- 2026-09-19
Free
$0/month
- Unlimited highlight explanations
- Ask follow-up questions
- Import your Zotero library
- Powered by basic AI models
Pro
$16/month
- Explain math formulas and figures with Math Explain
- Powered by advanced AI models
- Generate summaries for the entire paper
- Save your highlights and explanations
- Ask questions about your paper
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Contact us
- Everything in Pro
- Team management
- Priority support
- Volume discounts