Essay vs Kahubi

Essay is a structured writing platform for planning, drafting, editing, citing, and sharing written work. Its tools include outlines, a distraction-free drafting space, rewriting, and reordering. Writers can collect research in notes, organize it, and link it to an essay or outline. They can share work with friends, teachers, or peers, using feedback categories to guide review. Essay also supports citations, reference management, bibliography formatting, and academic exports. Listed export formats include PDF, Word, Docs, and Markdown; Pro includes Zotero integration and academic export. The Free plan allows 3 essays, a 5,000-word count, 12 notes, and 10 personalized topic recommendations. Core costs $8 USD per month billed annually, while Pro costs $12 USD per month billed annually. Essay is available on iOS and the web. Its roadmap lists working offline as a live feature and native Android and iOS apps as planned. The site presents Core for everyday writers and Pro for academics and researchers, with uses including dissertations, proposals, creative writing, and research papers.

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.