Paperguide vs Resoomer (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Resoomer grades higher than Paperguide: 3.2 against 2.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Paperguide grades higher on features. Resoomer grades higher on value for money, the free plan and ease of use. They get the same grade on platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Paperguide
AI research platform for literature and systematic reviews
Which one is for you
Pick Paperguide if
- Fits if your team runs systematic reviews and needs every screening decision documented
- Works for students and academics, who get 30% off with a university email
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you're staying free, with 20 AI searches and 2,000 credits a month, and no systematic reviews or shared workspaces
- Pricey if you need dual-reviewer screening, which sits on Evidence at $89 a seat a month billed annually
- Watch out: every AI feature draws on one monthly credit pool, 12,500 on Plus and 50,000 on Pro
- Skip it if you were counting on image and table extraction, as that's still marked coming soon
- Not for you if you want a phone or desktop app, as only a web app and browser extension are listed
Pick Resoomer if
- Fits if you want a quick summary of an article with no sign-up
- Works for rewording or translating a passage in the browser
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want answers with sources, as the summaries come with no citations
- Not for you if you want to manage papers or citations, because it does neither
- Too light for chatting with a document, as it is not a chat assistant
- Watch out: texts are deleted after processing, so export or save results yourself
How we grade them
| 2.6GPAPaperguideGood | 3.2GPAResoomerVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPlus is $12 a seat a month billed annually, or $19 monthly, which is the middle of this category exactly. It does carry systematic reviews of up to 1,000 papers, unlimited AI searches and 12,500 credits a month, and a university email takes 30% off. Dual-reviewer screening is another matter: Evidence, at $89. | AFree with no account and no stated usage limit, across all eight tools. Category tools start at $7.92 a month for the cheaper quarter. |
| Free plan and trial | CFree gives you 2,000 AI credits and 20 AI searches a month, 500 MB of reference storage and extraction tables of up to 10 papers and 5 columns. Enough to learn the tool, not to run a project on: there are no systematic reviews and no shared workspaces. | AEverything is free, including the browser extensions and the Reflex app, and the pages show no cap. |
| Features | ATwo parts rivals like Elicit and Consensus don't list: screening that ends in a PRISMA diagram with dual-reviewer checking, and a full reference manager with 1,000-plus citation styles. Then AI search across 200 million papers, extraction tables, an agent and a writer. | CSummarizer, document upload, rewriter, translator and spell checker. It does those jobs fully, but they are small ones: no library, no citations, no chat. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record, and the work is front-loaded: a protocol to define for screening, columns to set up for extraction, and one monthly credit pool that every AI feature draws on. It does import a Zotero or Mendeley library, so your references don't start from nothing. | BNo rating on record, but you paste text and get a result with no account. |
| Platforms and integrations | BA web app with a browser extension, plus a Search API at 10 requests a month on Free and 500 on Pro. It imports from Zotero and Mendeley and connects to Claude and ChatGPT. No phone or desktop app is listed, so that API is what earns the B. | BWeb, browser extensions, and iOS and Android through the Reflex app. No API is listed. |
| Best for | search, references and reviews in one workspace | free text summaries and rewrites |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Paperguide and Resoomer. How we grade
Price against what you get
Paperguide starts at $12 a month for each person and scores 3.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Resoomer has no paid plan and scores 2.7.
Paperguide scores higher, and starts $12 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI research tools on the chart, none scores higher than Paperguide for less, and none scores higher than Resoomer for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Paperguide also covers chat assistant, AI search, AI agents, research, citations and long-form writing.
- Resoomer also covers documents, grammar & style and text to speech.
At a glance
| Paperguide | Resoomer | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free |
| Starts at | $12 per seat / month, billed annually ($8 with the academic discount) | Free |
| Free plan | 2,000 AI credits and 20 AI searches a month, 500 MB of reference storage, extraction tables of up to 10 papers and 5 columns, and 10 Search API requests a month. | Every tool is free, with no account required and no character limit, according to the Resoomer site and its Reflex app page. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Paperguide | Resoomer |
| Price read from | paperguide.ai | resoomer.com |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Paperguide
- The Free plan has no systematic reviews or shared workspaces and is limited to 20 AI searches and 2,000 AI credits a month.
- AI features draw on a monthly credit pool: 12,500 on Plus, 50,000 on Pro and 150,000 on Evidence.
- Dual-reviewer screening for systematic reviews needs the Evidence plan, at $89 per seat / month billed annually.
- Image and table extraction is marked as coming soon on the pricing page.
Resoomer
- It is a set of single-purpose text tools, not a chat assistant, and it does not manage a library of papers or citations.
- Texts are deleted after processing, so results must be exported or saved by the user.
- The site gives no sources or citations for the summaries it produces.
- The site's page code still carries a monthly premium price variable, but no paid plan is shown on any page read.
Key features
Paperguide
- AI Search
- Ask a research question in plain language and get a synthesized answer drawn from more than 200 million papers, with each claim linked to its source.
- Systematic reviews
- Screens papers against a predefined protocol with cited evidence for each criterion, then produces verified extraction tables, a report and a PRISMA diagram. Dual-reviewer screening is on the Evidence plan.
- Reference manager
- Imports from Zotero or Mendeley, or by DOI, URL, PDF, BibTeX or RIS, fetches metadata and open-access PDFs, and formats citations in more than 1,000 styles.
- Extract Data
- You define the columns and the AI fills them across the selected papers, with every value linked to the statement it came from. Tables export to CSV or Excel.
- Research Agent
- Investigates a topic across the paper database and your library, answers questions about one or several PDFs, and can generate a literature review of up to 50 papers.
- AI Writer
- Drafts and edits documents with citations from your library and the paper database, and exports them as Word, PDF or LaTeX files.
Resoomer
- Summarizer
- Condenses a pasted text, an uploaded document or a web page into its main points, with no character limit stated on the site.
- Document upload
- Accepts PDF, EPUB, DOCX, ODT and TXT files, and the other tools can take a result as input.
- Rewriter, paraphraser and synonymizer
- Rewrite a text in another style, re-express its ideas, or swap words for simpler or richer ones.
- Text player
- Reads texts, documents and summaries aloud so they can be listened to instead of read.
- Translator and spell checker
- Translates documents and corrects spelling; the site says 66 languages are supported.
- Browser extensions
- Extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Brave and Vivaldi bring the tools to any web page.
Plans
Paperguide
Free$0
2,000 AI credits and 20 AI searches a month, 500 MB of reference storage, and extraction tables of up to 10 papers and 5 columns.
Plus$12
per seat / month, billed annually ($144); $19 billed monthly
12,500 AI credits a month, systematic reviews of up to 1,000 papers, unlimited AI searches and reference storage, and shared workspaces.
Pro$29
per seat / month, billed annually ($348); $49 billed monthly
50,000 AI credits a month, systematic reviews of up to 5,000 papers and 500 Search API requests a month.
Evidence$89
per seat / month, billed annually ($1,068); $149 billed monthly
150,000 AI credits a month, PRISMA-grade dual-reviewer screening, a dedicated support channel and 1,500 Search API requests a month.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom AI credits, systematic reviews of up to 20,000 papers, dual-reviewer screening and a dedicated support channel.
Resoomer
Free$0
All eight tools, the browser extensions and the Reflex app, with no sign-up and no stated usage limit.
Ways to pay less
Paperguide
- Annual discount
Save up to 41% with yearly billing
Billed yearly, Plus is $12 a seat per month against $19 billed monthly, Pro is $29 against $49 and Evidence is $89 against $149. The pricing page labels the saving as 41%.
- Education
30% academic discount with a university email
Verifying a university email takes 30% off: Plus becomes $8, Pro $20 and Evidence $62 per seat / month billed yearly, or $13, $34 and $104 billed monthly.
Resoomer
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Paperguide or Resoomer?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Resoomer is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $12 a month for each person for Paperguide. Paperguide starts at $12 per seat / month, billed annually ($8 with the academic discount), and Resoomer is free.
Which has a free plan, Paperguide or Resoomer?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Paperguide and Resoomer have a free plan.
Which platforms do Paperguide and Resoomer run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Resoomer lists iOS and Android apps. Both list a web app and a browser extension. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.