Academly vs Kahubi

Academly is a web-based thesis-writing platform that generates academic writing from PDFs users upload. Users select pages from their sources, generate drafts, check citations, and assemble chapters into a thesis. The site says citations link to uploaded PDFs and verified page references. Chapter generation covers theory, methodology, discussion, and conclusion. Academly also describes an integrated Mayring workflow for coding interviews, forming categories, and generating findings. Free tools listed on the site include a thesis topic generator and literature search. Academly presents itself for Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis writers and researchers. The site says it is GDPR compliant and does not train AI models on user documents; it also lists email support. The free plan includes 60 Student Points on signup, basic summaries, automatic citations, and PDF uploads up to 5 MB. Pro costs $24 a month and includes 2,000 Student Points refreshed monthly, uploads up to 50 MB, chapter builders, qualitative analysis, and multiple export formats. Author costs $45 a month, and Lifetime costs $399, paid once.

Kahubi is an AI workspace for research writing, reading, and analysis using a researcher’s own papers, drafts, datasets, and transcripts. Its chat searches a library, answers from selected sources, and cites them. Manuscript tools support source-grounded drafting, PDF compilation, Word export, and LaTeX editing. A systematic review workflow searches OpenAlex and the web, screens papers against criteria, and creates PRISMA counts and a written review. Researchers can also create and analyze surveys, run CSV statistics including t-tests, ANOVA, regression, correlation, PCA, and Cronbach’s alpha, and analyze interviews transcribed in 99+ languages with speaker labels and timestamps. Shared projects offer viewer, commenter, and editor roles, with discussion channels and threaded comments. Integrations or supported formats include Zotero, Mendeley, GitHub, BibTeX, RIS, LaTeX, and Microsoft Word. The free plan includes 25 AI messages per month, two projects, 200 library papers, three drafts per project, and a one-time 30-minute transcription trial. Paid plans start at $29 a month. Kahubi says content is not used to train AI models and servers are in the European Union.