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10 best web apps for research in 2026

The best web apps for research, ranked by what people rate them. All of them run in your browser. Manus, Elicit and Consensus lead the list. 10 of them are free or have a free plan.

10 apps · 10 free or with a free plan · Updated October 2026

10 apps for research

Best rated first. Paid placements never change this order.

  1. 1

    Manus

    An agent that goes off and finishes a task.

    AINewFreemium

    Open
  2. 2

    Elicit

    Find papers and pull answers out of them.

    AINewFreemium

    Open
  3. 3

    Consensus

    Ask a question, get answers grounded in papers.

    AINewFreemium

    Open
  4. 4

    arXiv

    A free archive of research papers.

    LearningNewFree

    Open
  5. 5

    Perplexity

    Ask a question and get an answer with its sources linked.

    AINewFreemium

    Open
  6. 6

    Are.na

    Collect links, images and notes into shared channels.

    InspirationNewFreemium

    Open
  7. 7

    Gemini

    Google's AI assistant, connected to Search and your Google apps.

    AINewFreemium

    Open
  8. 8

    Mobbin

    A searchable library of real app screens and flows.

    InspirationNewFreemium

    Open
  9. 9

    NotebookLM

    Upload your sources and ask questions about them.

    AINewFree

    Open
  10. 10

    Our World in Data

    Charts and research on the world's biggest problems.

    DataNewFree

    Open

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