Meet Alfred Scholar
The calm research workspace for scholars who would rather be thinking.
Chat with your papers, compare a whole stack in one cited matrix, keep a weekly watch on your field, and write your thesis in one focused place. Alfred takes the busywork, so your best hours go to your own ideas.
One desk for every stage of research
- 250M+ scholarly works one DOI lookup away via OpenAlex, CrossRef & more
- 6 citation styles, formatted for you APA to Vancouver
- 14 submission guideline checks before your manuscript leaves
- 3 days of full Pro trial no credit card required
Why not just a chatbot?
Grounded in your papers, not in guesswork.
Most researchers already ask a general chatbot. The trouble is what it answers from, and what it does when it does not know.
A general chatbot
- Answers from training memory, not from your library.
- References that look plausible can point nowhere.
- Whatever you paste may be retained, and may train the next model.
Alfred
- Answers only from the papers you upload.
- Every claim carries the exact page it came from.
- If it is not in your papers, Alfred says so.
"Every answer points to the exact page, so you can check it yourself."
How it works underneath: each question runs a hybrid full-text and semantic search across your library, and only the passages Alfred actually finds become the answer.
The Workspace
Eight tools. One desk.
Follow the journey of a paper: gather the literature, understand it, find your gap, and leave with a manuscript ready to submit. Every step happens at the same desk.
My documents
First, gather the literature
Every paper you own, one searchable shelf.
Upload your research papers and organize them into folders. Metadata, references, and full text are extracted automatically, so one search sweeps your entire library in seconds.
- DOI, authors, journal, and abstract are pulled from every PDF on upload.
- Folders, bulk moves, and drag reordering keep the shelf tidy, iPad included.
Ask Alfred
Understand what you have
Ask in plain English. Get a page-cited answer.
Ask questions about your papers, typed or spoken. Every response is grounded in your library and cites the exact page it came from; if the answer is not there, Alfred says so instead of guessing.
- Hybrid semantic and full-text search finds the passages behind every answer.
- Follow citations to the highlighted passage without leaving the conversation.
Telescope
Find the gap worth pursuing
A stack of papers becomes one cited matrix.
Choose the papers and ask your questions once. Telescope reads every paper against every question: one row per paper, one column per question, every cell citing the page it came from, and a synthesis that names the gaps worth pursuing.
- Runs in the background. Alfred emails you when the matrix is ready.
- Reads only the papers you choose. Nothing is pulled from outside your library.
Loops
Stay current while you work
New work finds you, not the other way around.
Pick up to five keywords and a morning. Every week Alfred searches the last seven days of new papers, preprints, and findings, then sends a short digest with sources you can check. Quiet weeks stay quiet: if nothing verifiable turned up, the digest says so plainly.
- Any day and time you choose, in your own timezone.
- Every digest lands in your inbox and your workspace, as an Insight.
Citations
References, ready to drop in
References that format themselves.
Import BibTeX or RIS, auto-extract references from PDFs, look up DOIs, and export in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, Vancouver, or a custom style you define yourself.
- A DOI lookup autofills clean metadata from OpenAlex, CrossRef, and friends.
- Zotero and Mendeley sync bring your existing library along.
Manuscripts
Now, write it up
Write the thesis where the sources live.
A rich-text editor built for academic writing: auto-save, one-click citation insertion, voice dictation, AI rewrite that keeps your citations intact, and 14 submission guideline checks before anything leaves your desk.
- Equations in LaTeX or a visual math keyboard, rendered cleanly in print.
- Mark a manuscript Final and it locks until you reopen it as a draft.
Peer reviews
Colleagues weigh in
Feedback rounds without the email chains.
Assign finalized manuscripts to reviewers, collect structured feedback inline, and track every review cycle in the same workspace the writing happened in.
- Every manuscript shows its review status at a glance.
- Lab adds unlimited reviewers and a supervisor review workflow.
Plagiarism checks
The final pass before you submit
Catch overlap while you can still fix it.
Run a similarity check before you submit. Matched passages are highlighted in place, quotes and reference lists are excluded by default, and the report exports cleanly for your records.
- Matches point to the exact overlapping passage, not just a percentage.
- Honest about scope: it checks across this platform, and pairs well with journal-side tools.
How it works
From a folder of PDFs
to answers you can cite.
No setup, no manuals, no technical skills. If you can attach a file to an email, you can use Alfred.
- 1
Upload your papers
Drop in the PDFs you are reading. Alfred indexes every page, figure, and reference automatically.
- 2
Alfred reads them
Within a minute or two, each paper is fully understood: text, metadata, and citations extracted.
- 3
Ask in plain English
No special commands. Ask "what methodology did they use?" the way you would ask a colleague.
- 4
Get cited answers
Every answer points to the exact page it came from, so you can verify and quote with confidence.
Who Alfred is for
Every desk in the department.
A doctorate, a supervision load, and a lab ask different things of one tool. Alfred is shaped for each.
For PhD candidates
The dissertation years, organized
Keep every paper you read in one searchable library, ask questions across all of them, and run a plagiarism check before anything leaves your desk.
- Chat across your whole library
- Citations formatted in any style
- Plagiarism check before submission
For professors & supervisors
Guide more, chase less
Assign manuscripts to reviewers, collect structured feedback in one place, and keep every student's draft moving without another email thread.
- Peer review assignment & tracking
- Inline comments on manuscripts
- One workspace per project
For research labs
One library, the whole lab
A single Lab plan seats you and nine colleagues in shared workspaces with role-based access, so the lab's reading lives in the lab, not on someone's laptop.
- 10 seats on one plan
- Owner, colleague & reviewer roles
- Unlimited reviewers & plagiarism checks
Pricing
World-class research, affordable for every researcher.
Alfred exists so a world-class research workflow is within reach of every researcher on the planet, not a luxury reserved for well-funded labs. That is why a month of Pro costs less than a single paywalled article.
For one serious researcher
Pro
₹499 /month
or ₹4,999/year (two months free)
- Unlimited documents, 1,000 AI messages a day
- All citation styles, or define your own
- Voice dictation, or bring your own AI key
- 1 plagiarism check a month
- 3 Telescope analyses a month
- Weekly research digests with Loops
- A Second Brain that remembers your chats
- Zotero & Mendeley sync
- 3 peer reviewers
One plan for the whole lab
Lab
₹2,499 /month
or ₹24,999/year (two months free)
- Everything in Pro, for 10 seats
- 3,000 AI messages a day
- Shared workspaces with role-based access
- Unlimited peer reviewers
- Unlimited plagiarism checks
- 10 Telescope analyses a month
- Frontier AI model
Every workspace starts with a free 3-day Pro trial. No credit card required.
Compare both plans in detailA lifetime Founding Scholar plan is open to the first 100 scholars. See the edition →
Roadmap
Built to grow with your research
Here's what's available today and what we're actively building next.
Available today
BibTeX
Import and export citation files
RIS
Import from reference managers
Citation Constellation
Interactive citation graph from a DOI
Zotero Sync
Sync your Zotero library
Mendeley Sync
Sync your Mendeley library
Literature Reviews
Survey and synthesize prior work
Telescope
Compare papers across custom columns
Loops
A weekly research digest, delivered
Voice Dictation
Speak your questions and drafts
Bring Your Own Key
Run chat on your own AI key
Recently shipped
See everything we ship
Google Scholar 
arXiv Import 
Overleaf Export 
Google Drive Privacy & Security
Your research stays yours.
We are a subscription business. We make money when you pay for a plan, not by selling your data or mining your research.
Workspace-scoped access
Your research is scoped to your workspace. Only you and the colleagues you explicitly invite can see it. No one outside your team can access your data.
Your data leaves with you
Export your citations in BibTeX or RIS whenever you like. Your work is never locked in, and your account stays accessible even if you stop paying.
Never used to train AI
We do not use your documents to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. What you upload informs only your own work.
Your work saves automatically
Every edit to your manuscripts and library is saved as you go, so a closed tab or dropped connection never costs you progress.
Sign-in you control
Add two-factor authentication with an authenticator app and recovery codes, or sign in with a passkey using Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, or a security key.
Testimonials
From the margins of real research.
Real names, real universities, unedited words.
Alfred Scholar has made my research workflow faster, clearer, and far more organized. It’s an essential tool for any scholar.
Earlier, research writing, thesis work, and manuscript preparation used to take a lot of my time and effort. However, since I subscribed to Alfred Scholar and started using the platform, my research workflow has become much easier and more organized. What I appreciate most is that multiple essential features are available in one place. The AI humanizer, plagiarism detection, and writing assistance tools have helped me save a significant amount of time while improving the quality of my work. The entire process is now much more streamlined and efficient. Thank you, Alfred Scholar, for making academic writing and research management so convenient. I would definitely recommend this platform to students, researchers, and academicians looking to simplify their research journey.
Alfred Scholar has made manuscript writing much easier for me. It helps ensure proper formatting, offers plagiarism checking, supports multiple citation styles, and includes an excellent AI Chat feature for extracting notes and insights from PDFs. It's a valuable tool for researchers looking to improve productivity and writing quality.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Still have questions? Write to us. A person reads every message.
Spend your evenings on the argument,
not the admin.
Upload papers, ask questions, manage citations. Every workspace starts with a free 3-day Pro trial.
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Scholars at Mumbai University, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, and AKTU Lucknow already write with Alfred.