Academly vs SciSpace

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.

SciSpace is a platform for finding, analyzing, and writing about scientific literature. Its literature review tool searches more than 280 million articles and organizes concise findings in tables with customizable columns. Chat with PDF offers citation-backed answers, section-by-section summaries, explanations of highlighted passages, and related-paper recommendations. Writing tools include AI-assisted suggestions, paraphrasing in context, style improvements, and an editor supporting more than 75 languages. Users can import references from Zotero or EndNote, though the Zotero import flow excludes papers without a DOI. A Chrome extension explains selected text, math, and tables; its mobile app is for iOS and supports searching, summarizing, and exploring peer-reviewed journals. SciSpace says its repository has metadata for 200 million-plus papers and 50 million-plus open-access full-text PDFs. It lists extension, iOS, and web access. The free plan is free and includes 100 monthly credits; paid plans start at $20/mo. SciSpace says uploaded PDFs are private to the user and are not used to train its AI models.