AI academic writing tool and research assistant for researchers and students
AI writing assistant for any Mac app
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Pricing model
Freemium
Free trial
Pricing
Monthly Plan, Annual Plan, Quarterly Plan available. Multi-year Plans: 2 years ($229) or 3 years ($289). Paperpal for Teams offers up to 25% savings on annual subscriptions. Student discounts available.
$29 USD one-time purchase
Key features
Grammar check with academic-grade suggestions trained on millions of scholarly edits
Plagiarism checker against 99 billion sources
AI paraphraser to restructure and improve academic tone
Research and citation in 10,000+ citation styles
Access to 250 million verified research articles
Pre-submission checks for 1,500+ top journals
Chat with PDFs to extract key insights
Works across MS Word, Google Docs, Chrome, and Overleaf
Translator for multiple languages
Remembers people and past context
Grammarly-class proofreading
Bring your own API key or run local model
Ghost text suggestions as you type
Two gestures to access all functions
Shows receipts for each reply
Memory stays on your Mac
Supports Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Ollama
Custom actions with personalized shortcuts
What makes it different
Built exclusively for academic writing, trained on millions of scholarly articles
All-in-one platform combining writing assistance, citations, plagiarism checks, and pre-submission support
Works seamlessly within existing writing tools without switching applications
Used by over 5 million researchers and trusted by 1,500+ journals
Maintains academic integrity and originality of user work
Memory that crosses conversations and apps
Shows receipts explaining how each reply was generated
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