Read, analyse and write - with every answer traceable to a sentence in your own PDFs.

Every answer grounded in your own library - never the open web.

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  • 200M+ papers across 10 databases
  • Every answer links to its source PDF
  • macOS · Windows · Linux
Analyse many documents at once into a column grid. Every answer is referenced and jumps you to the exact passage in the source PDF.

Discover, Analyse, Write, with the help of AI.

Three things Sciwand does end-to-end, in one app, grounded in your own documents.

01 · Discover

Find the right papers.

10 academic databases + a live citation graph.

02 · Analyse

Ask across the stack.

Free-text, yes/no, or 1-10 scores. Every cell cited.

03 · Write

Write grounded, cited prose.

Markdown editor. AI sidebar quotes only your library.

Why Sciwand, not another cloud subscription.

Other AI research tools upload your library to their servers, guess at citations, and bill you monthly. Sciwand does the opposite.

Grounded

Cited, not guessed

Every claim links to the exact sentence in your PDF.

Private

Local-first by default

Your papers stay on your machine - never uploaded.

Yours

No subscription

Bring your own AI key and pay your provider directly.

Open

Fits your workflow

Syncs with Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote and writes into Word.

Works with your stack

Standalone, or in sync with your reference manager.

Use it standalone, or import straight from Zotero, EndNote, Mendeley and Bookends - your other apps stay untouched.

Zero hallucination

Every answer links to a highlighted sentence in the PDF.

Click any citation and Sciwand opens the source PDF at the exact highlighted sentence - never a fabricated reference.

AI across your library

Ask AI any question across all your documents.

Ask once; Sciwand queries each document independently and lays the answers out in a grid.

Literature reviews & screening

Screen any pile of documents at scale.

Set criteria once and screen hundreds of documents in minutes - each Yes / No backed by a cited sentence.

Score columns

Rank documents on any dimension you can define.

Score every document 1-10 on any dimension you define; each score links to the passage that justifies it.

Library chat

Talk to your entire library, not just one document.

Ask one question of your whole library; answers synthesise across dozens of papers with inline citations.

Search the literature

Search PubMed, Scholar & arXiv, then ask AI questions over the results.

Search 10 academic databases in-app, then screen the results with the same AI columns.

Connected academic databases
250M+
scholarly works reachable
10
live sources, more coming
2M+
preprints (arXiv, Europe PMC)
40M+
books indexed
PubMed CrossRef Semantic Scholar OpenAlex arXiv Europe PMC Google Scholar CORE Google Books Library of Congress
Every language your LM understands

Read, ask, and write in any language. Only your model is the limit.

Sciwand is language-agnostic. Pick a model strong in your target language (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama); Sciwand handles the rest.

你好
"这篇论文的主要发现是什么?"
Mandarin · tap or hover any chip to switch the demo
Markdown writer

Write with an AI that only quotes your library.

Markdown editor with an AI sidebar grounded only in your sources - exports to Word, Markdown or plain text.

vs Compare Sciwand vs Jenni.ai, Writefull, Paperpal & other AI writers
Aspect
Other AI writers
Sciwand
Sources
Open web; often hallucinated
Only your library
Citations
Fabricated or imprecise
Real, clickable, page-anchored
Workflow
AI writes, you edit
You write first; AI validates & augments
Universal library

Works with whatever you've got.

Opens PDF, Word, EPUB and TXT - drop a file or folder, or paste any DOI, PMID, arXiv or ISBN.

Smart sidebar

See where any paper sits in the literature.

References, citing papers, and related work in a live graph. Familiar if you've used Research Rabbit, Connected Papers, or Litmaps; the PDFs and AI live one click away.

Compare Sciwand vs competitors (Research Rabbit, Connected Papers, Litmaps)
Feature
Research Rabbit, Connected Papers & Litmaps
Sciwand
Interactive citation graph
Yes
Yes
Read the full PDF in-app
Links out
Inline PDF reader
AI Q&A across the graph
No
Ask, screen, score, compare
Works offline
No
Local app
Price
Free or freemium
No subscription

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