Scifocus

What it does

Scifocus is an AI research assistant for students and researchers. It supports literature reviews, note taking, concept mapping, essay writing, and responses to reviewer comments. The suite switches between large language models such as Deepseek, ChatGPT, and Claude for different research tasks.

Scifocus is an AI research assistant aimed at academic work. The homepage lists tools for literature reviews, notes and concept mapping, essays and academic writing, and communication and research support. It also describes a Daily Academic Toolkit with more than 70 tools, including an essay rewriter, essay topic generator, essay checker, grammar checker, citation format conversion, and paraphrasing tools. A separate Research Assistant Pro is described as supporting research papers, review articles, case reports, literature reading, and long-form projects from mind mapping to final draft edits. The site says Scifocus is a suite of large language models (Deepseek, Chatgpt, Claude) that switches between LLMs for different research content needs. The homepage includes testimonials from named academics about literature review outlines, study notes, and mini-reviews. The free trial is stated as free with no credit card required. The homepage does not show pricing details, does not explain citation accuracy or data privacy practices, and does not state whether an API or open source version exists. A careful user should verify citations and outputs against original sources.