All 100 research & learning tools in the catalog across 11 sub-categories, ordered free tiers first.
Flocci AI Tools lists 100 of them, ordered free tiers first: Ai2 Paper Finder (Asta), Aila (Oak National Academy), AlphaFold Server, alphaXiv and Biomni. 94 of the 100 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.
40 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Ai2 Paper Finder (Asta), Aila (Oak National Academy), AlphaFold Server, alphaXiv and Biomni. The remaining 60 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.
Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.
Ai2 Paper Finder (Asta), Aila (Oak National Academy), AlphaFold Server, alphaXiv and Biomni all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 73 of the 94 free Research & Learning Tools listed here are browser-based.
alphaXiv, Metaso AI Search (Mita), AskYourPDF, ChatPDF and Curipod support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 11 of the 94 free Research & Learning Tools on this page.
Google LearnLM, Metaso AI Search (Mita), Phia, Amazon Rufus and Baidu AI Search have an iOS or Android app. 30 of the 94 free Research & Learning Tools here can run on your phone.
AI Scientist-v2, Boltz, DeepSeek-OCR, Docling and Dolphin (ByteDance) can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 12 of the 94 free Research & Learning Tools here run offline.
| Tool | Pricing | Type | Listed for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ai2 Paper Finder (Asta) | Free | Academic Research | Agentic literature-search tool built by Ai2, now folded into the broader 'Asta' research-agent platform |
| Aila (Oak National Academy) | Free | AI for Teachers & Classrooms | Generates lesson plans, slides, quizzes and worksheets |
| AlphaFold Server | Free | Science & Research AI | Free browser-based access to AlphaFold 3-class structure prediction for non-commercial research |
| alphaXiv | Free | Academic Research | Free overlay for arXiv papers with public discussion/comment threads per paper |
| Biomni | Free | Science & Research AI | General-purpose biomedical agent combining LLM planning with code execution |
| Daydream | Free | AI Shopping Assistants | Proprietary fashion-trained AI understands cut/color/occasion, not generic product search |
| dots.ocr (dots.mocr) | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | 3B vision-language model for layout parsing across many scripts |
| Google LearnLM | Free | AI Tutors & Learning | Learning-tuned tutoring in Gemini |
| LangExtract (Google) | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Python library extracting structured data from unstructured text with LLMs |
| Little Language Lessons | Free | Language Learning AI | Tiny Lesson: situational vocabulary and grammar on demand |
| Metaso AI Search (Mita) | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Ad-free AI search with direct answers |
| MinerU | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Parses PDFs, images and Office files into Markdown, JSON, HTML or LaTeX |
| MiroThinker | Free | Deep Research & Documents | Deep research agent with up to 300 tool calls per task and 256K context |
| Morphic | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Open-source, Apache 2.0, self-hostable generative-UI search engine |
| olmOCR | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Apache 2.0 open-source OCR toolkit from Ai2, 19.3k GitHub stars |
| PaddleOCR-VL | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | 1B-parameter document parsing VLM (NaViT encoder + ERNIE-4.5-0.3B) |
| Phia | Free | AI Shopping Assistants | Chrome extension + iOS app that surfaces resale/secondhand alternatives while shopping |
| ResearchRabbit | Free | Academic Research | Visual citation-network mapping across 310M+ papers |
| Scira | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Free, no credit card required |
| Semantic Scholar | Free | Academic Research | Fully free AI-powered search across 237M+ scientific papers |
| STORM (Stanford) | Free | Deep Research & Documents | MIT-licensed open-source system that researches a topic and writes a full cited report |
| Tongyi DeepResearch | Free | Deep Research & Documents | 30.5B-parameter MoE agent (3.3B active) with 128K context for long-horizon research |
| Wonderplan | Free | Travel Planning | Day-by-day itineraries from destination, budget and interests |
| AI Scientist-v2 | Free | Science & Research AI | Agentic tree search proposes ideas, runs experiments and writes papers |
| Amazon Rufus | Free | AI Shopping Assistants | Amazon's AI shopping assistant, now branded Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus) |
| Baidu AI Search | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Ad-free AI answers built on Baidu Search, Wenku, Health and Law content |
| Boltz | Free | Science & Research AI | First fully open-source model to approach AlphaFold3-level structure prediction, MIT-licensed |
| DeepSeek-OCR | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Vision-language OCR that compresses document context optically |
| Docling | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | MIT-licensed, 64.7k GitHub stars, IBM Research-originated, now under LF AI & Data Foundation |
| Dolphin (ByteDance) | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Two-stage document-type and layout analysis then element parsing |
| Evo 2 | Free | Science & Research AI | DNA language model at single-nucleotide resolution with 1M base-pair context |
| GPT Researcher | Free | Deep Research & Documents | Planner and executor agents gather from 20+ web sources |
| GuideGeek | Free | Travel Planning | 1M+ consumer users per vendor, live since April 2023 (longer track record than most AI trip tools) |
| ima.copilot (Tencent ima) | Free | Deep Research & Documents | AI workbench that searches, reads and writes from a personal knowledge base |
| Marker | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Apache-2.0 code, 38.7k GitHub stars, converts PDFs/DOCX/PPTX/XLSX to markdown/JSON |
| MarkItDown | Free | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Converts PDF, Office files, images, audio and HTML into LLM-friendly Markdown |
| Nano AI Search (360) | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Calls 16+ Chinese large models (Doubao, Ernie, Qwen, MiniMax) in one search |
| Open Notebook | Free | Deep Research & Documents | Self-hosted NotebookLM alternative over PDFs, video, audio and web pages |
| PaperQA2 | Free | Academic Research | RAG over PDFs with in-text citations grounded in passages |
| Perplexica | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | MIT-licensed, fully self-hostable open-source Perplexity clone |
| Anara | Freemium | Academic Research | Cited answers linked to exact passages in papers and uploaded files |
| AskYourPDF | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Chat with any PDF plus auto-fill PDF forms |
| Brisk Teaching | Freemium | AI for Teachers & Classrooms | Works inside Google Docs/Slides/Classroom and Microsoft Word/PowerPoint via extension |
| Chai-1 (Chai Discovery) | Freemium | Science & Research AI | Chai-1 is free, Apache-2.0-licensed for academic and commercial use — a genuinely open structure-prediction model |
| Chandra OCR | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Converts images and PDFs to HTML, Markdown or JSON with layout |
| ChatGPT Deep Research | Freemium | Deep Research & Documents | Runs up to ~30 min for exhaustive reports |
| ChatGPT Search | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Real-time web answers inside ChatGPT |
| ChatGPT Study Mode | Freemium | AI Tutors & Learning | Socratic step-by-step tutoring mode built into ChatGPT rather than direct answers |
| ChatPDF | Freemium | Deep Research & Documents | Chat with any PDF or document |
| Connected Papers | Freemium | Academic Research | Visual graph of related papers built from co-citation analysis |
| Consensus | Freemium | Academic Research | Answers grounded in peer-reviewed papers |
| Curipod | Freemium | AI for Teachers & Classrooms | Generates teacher-led interactive lessons aligned to 55+ curricula |
| Elicit | Freemium | Academic Research | Find and summarize research papers |
| Emergent Mind | Freemium | Academic Research | Surfaces trending arXiv papers with video/whiteboard-style explainers |
| Exa | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Search API built specifically for AI agents/LLMs, not humans |
| Felo | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Free multilingual AI search & creation platform |
| Flint | Freemium | AI for Teachers & Classrooms | Teacher-configured AI tutors and feedback tools for students |
| Gemini Deep Research | Freemium | Deep Research & Documents | Multi-step research across the web |
| Glasp | Freemium | YouTube & Content Summarizers | 2M+ users per vendor; free web/PDF/Kindle highlighter with a social discovery layer of other users' highlights |
| Grok DeeperSearch | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Live search across X and the open web |
| Humata | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Free tier: 60 pages, 10 answers, no card |
| iAsk.ai | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Free AI answer engine aimed at students/researchers |
| Knowt | Freemium | AI Tutors & Learning | Positions as the free Quizlet alternative, with unlimited learn mode/practice tests free |
| Komo | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Fast, ad-free AI search |
| Litmaps | Freemium | Academic Research | Network-map visualization of citations across a research topic |
| LlamaParse | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Parses 90+ formats incl. complex tables/charts/handwriting into clean markdown |
| MagicSchool AI | Freemium | AI for Teachers & Classrooms | 80+ free AI tools for teachers: lesson planners, rubric generators, writing feedback |
| Mathpix | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Specializes in STEM: equations, chemistry structures, handwriting to LaTeX/text |
| Mindtrip | Freemium | Travel Planning | Conversational itinerary building with live maps/booking links in one thread |
| NotebookLM | Freemium | Deep Research & Documents | Grounded answers from your own sources |
| NoteGPT | Freemium | YouTube & Content Summarizers | 400,000 active Chrome Web Store users as of Jul 2026, ~12,683 ratings at 4.0/5 |
| Paperpal | Freemium | Academic Research | AI rewriting, translation and citation finding for manuscripts |
| Parallel | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Recurring monthly free allowance of several thousand requests |
| PDF.ai | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Chat-with-PDF product plus a separate parse/extract/split PDF API |
| Perplexity | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Cited, real-time answers (1B+ queries/quarter) |
| Praktika | Freemium | Language Learning AI | Free tier with basic AI-avatar conversation practice, low-cost premium |
| Quizlet | Freemium | AI Tutors & Learning | AI flashcards and practice tests from notes |
| Recall | Freemium | YouTube & Content Summarizers | Summarizes YouTube videos, articles and PDFs into a linked knowledge graph |
| Reducto | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | 15,000 free starter credits, no card required |
| Scholarcy | Freemium | Academic Research | Auto-generates 'summary flashcards' from papers/reports in seconds |
| SchoolAI | Freemium | AI for Teachers & Classrooms | 'Spaces' let teachers design their own AI learning experiences for students |
| SciSpace | Freemium | Academic Research | Explain and chat with any paper |
| Surya OCR | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | 650M-parameter OCR VLM covering 90+ languages |
| Symbolab | Freemium | AI Tutors & Learning | Step-by-step explanations across algebra, calculus, trig, geometry, physics |
| TalkPal | Freemium | Language Learning AI | Supports 130+ languages for conversational AI practice |
| Tavily | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | 1,000 free API credits/month, no card required |
| Turbo AI (formerly Turbolearn) | Freemium | AI Tutors & Learning | Converts uploaded PDFs/videos/recordings into notes, flashcards, quizzes, and podcasts |
| Twee | Freemium | AI for Teachers & Classrooms | Generates CEFR-aligned (A1-C2) texts, dialogues, and exercises across 10 languages |
| Undermind | Freemium | Academic Research | Exhaustive, agentic literature search |
| Upstage Document AI | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Parse/Extract/Classify/Instruct pipeline billed per page |
| ELSA Speak | Freemium | Language Learning AI | Free plan includes AI role-play conversations and real-time pronunciation feedback |
| Khanmigo | Freemium | AI Tutors & Learning | Socratic AI tutor from Khan Academy |
| Mistral OCR 4 | Freemium | AI OCR & Document Extraction | Self-hostable single-container OCR model for regulated industries |
| Photomath | Freemium | AI Tutors & Learning | Free Basic plan with full step-by-step explanations and visual aids |
| Kagi Assistant | Trial | AI Search & Answer Engines | Bundled with Kagi's paid ad-free search subscription |
| Scite | Trial | Academic Research | 'Smart Citations' show whether a paper is supported, contrasted, or just mentioned by later work |
| Eightify | Trial | YouTube & Content Summarizers | Summarizes YouTube videos up to 10 hours long in ~5 seconds |
| Kosmos (Edison Scientific / FutureHouse) | Paid | Science & Research AI | Autonomous AI agent that runs literature review + data analysis cycles, condensing ~6 months of research into a day per vendor |
| AlphaSense | Paid | Deep Research & Documents | AI search across SEC filings, earnings transcripts, broker research, private data |
| Duolingo Max | Paid | AI Tutors & Learning | AI roleplay and 'Explain My Answer' |