What is EssentAI
A Time and Mind Saver for Literture Reviews
EssentAI is a desktop tool for literature reviews. You add a single academic article (PDF only) and it pulls out key details such as title, authors, year, journal, methods and findings, then saves everything to your library. You can search, filter, flag, open the PDF, view full details, keep notes with in-text citations, paraphrase passages and use ‘Recommendations’ to suggest the top five relevant references from your own library (larger libraries may take a moment).
EssentAI is available through a low-cost monthly subscription and uses the Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), OpenAI API model.
This approach was designed with students and researchers in mind. It keeps overall costs transparent, flexible and as affordable as possible for those on a budget. In practice, usage costs can be very low, it costs anything between 0.15 – 0.25 cents per article review (depending on the size of the article).
With this setup, you pay a small monthly fee for the EssentAI app and all future updates while OpenAI charges you directly for any usage through your own API key.
Getting Started is Easy
We know budgets can be tight, so your first 3 uploads and reviews are on us. No subscription needed until you are ready to keep going.
Just follow these quick guides to create your API key, connect it to EssentAI, and you will be up and running in minutes.
EssentAI is currently available for Windows only.
Mac version coming soon