What is OpenRead?
OpenRead is a workspace for reading and understanding academic papers with AI help. It summarizes papers, answers questions about them, compares several papers side by side and maps how papers relate to each other. It is built for researchers and students who need to get through a large body of literature without reading every paper in full first. It also searches papers and the web from one place.
Main Features
- Paper Espresso produces summaries and key insights for a research paper.
- Paper Q&A lets you ask questions about a paper and get answers from its content.
- Paper Comparison compares multiple papers to surface findings and contradictions.
- Related Paper Graph maps connections between papers.
- Built-in note taking keeps your notes next to the papers you read.
- AI Search covers both scholarly papers and the web.
- Oat, the built-in assistant, supports chat, web research, diagram drawing and image editing.
Who Should Use It?
- Academic researchers running literature reviews.
- Graduate students reading papers for a thesis.
- Undergraduates who need help understanding dense papers.
- Knowledge workers who track research in their field.
- Anyone comparing findings across several studies.
Pricing
OpenRead lists a Free tier and a paid Pro tier; plan limits and prices were not visible.