Alternatives to Logically
An AI workspace for citation-backed research, reference management, PDF annotation and paper writing. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Logically
An AI workspace for citation-backed research, reference management, PDF annotation and paper writing.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Logically.
SciSpace
An AI research assistant for searching papers, running literature reviews and writing with citations.
SciSpace combines paper search across more than 280 million papers, chat with PDF, literature review tools and a citation generator, with full features on a paid plan.
Paperguide
An AI research platform for finding papers, managing references and running systematic reviews.
Paperguide offers cited answers, reference management with Zotero and Mendeley imports, and a systematic review workflow with PRISMA reporting, and is also web only.
Anara
An AI research workspace for searching, questioning and citing papers and documents in your library.
Anara links answers to exact source passages across up to 10,000 files and writes with automatic citations, and adds macOS and iOS apps alongside the web.
Jenni AI
An AI writing assistant for academic essays and research papers, with source library and citations.
Jenni AI focuses on academic writing, linking citations to sources for each claim and including library search with PDF access, with full features on a paid plan.
Petal
A web platform for storing documents and asking an AI questions answered with sources from them.
Petal stores your documents with automatic metadata extraction and answers questions with sources, adding team collaboration, though documents live in Petal's cloud.
OpenRead
A web platform for searching, reading, comparing and taking notes on academic papers with AI help.
OpenRead centres on searching, reading and comparing papers with notes and a choice of AI models, rather than reference management, with advanced features on the Pro plan.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Paperlib
An open-source desktop app for organizing academic papers, scraping their metadata and exporting references.
Paperpal
An AI academic writing tool with grammar checks, citations, paraphrasing and journal submission checks.
Elicit
An AI research assistant that finds papers, summarizes findings and extracts data for literature reviews.
ChatPDF
An AI tool that summarizes PDFs and answers questions about them, with citations to the source.
Scite
An AI research tool that answers questions from scholarly articles and shows how claims are cited.
