Explainpaper

What is Explainpaper?

Explainpaper is an AI research-paper reader. You upload a paper, highlight a confusing passage, and get a simpler explanation that takes the full paper into account. You can adjust the complexity of explanations and get them in more than 50 languages, according to the vendor.

Key capabilities of Explainpaper

• Highlight to explain: Plain-language explanation of selected text.
• Complexity control: Adjust the level of the explanation.
• Chat with your paper: Questions answered from the paper with section citations.
• Follow-up questions: Continue the conversation on a passage.
• Auto-generated insights: Outlines, key points and concept relationships.

How Explainpaper works

Upload a PDF, select a sentence or passage you do not understand, and Explainpaper returns an explanation grounded in the rest of the paper. You can ask follow-up questions or chat with the whole paper, with citations to specific sections.

Who uses Explainpaper?

Students, early-career researchers and professionals who need to read technical papers outside their field.

Explainpaper pricing

Free is $0 per month with unlimited highlight explanations and follow-up questions using basic AI models. Pro is $16 per month with advanced models, whole-paper summaries, saved highlights and paper Q&A, and a 7-day Pro trial is offered with a card on file.

Explainpaper alternatives

Anara is a research workspace for reading, annotating and asking questions across sources. Iris.ai is aimed at research teams for literature search and mapping. Connected Papers visualizes how papers relate through citations rather than explaining one paper's text.