Academly vs Paperpal

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.

Paperpal is an AI research and academic writing workspace for students and researchers, combining writing help, citation tools, and academic checks. Users can upload references and PDFs, ask questions, and receive cited findings from more than 300 million verified research articles. Writing tools cover academic suggestions, paraphrasing, tone changes, word reduction, grammar, proofreading, and citation formatting. Its checker suite looks for plagiarism and AI-writing patterns, checks references, and assesses journal submission readiness. Paperpal runs on the web and as a browser extension; it also offers a Microsoft Word add-in and browser-extension support for Google Docs and Overleaf. The free plan includes 200 language suggestions, five generative AI uses per day, 7,000 plagiarism-check words per month, and five daily AI-detection scans of up to 1,200 words each. Prime costs $144 a year billed annually, or $25 a month billed monthly. Pro costs $348 a year billed annually, or $59 a month billed monthly. Paperpal says it does not train its AI models on user documents, uploads, or personal information, and allows document deletion.