Frequently Asked Questions About ResearchPal

ResearchPal is an AI-powered research workspace built around the way academic work actually happens. It helps you find relevant papers, generate literature reviews, chat with PDFs, extract structured insights from studies, draft and edit academic writing, generate and manage citations, and keep every source organised in one library — without switching between five different tools.

ResearchPal is built for undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD researchers, professors, and academic writers, as well as research teams, universities, and professionals who rely on evidence-based research. If your work involves reading papers, citing sources, or writing from evidence, it's built with your workflow in mind.

Yes. Researchers use ResearchPal to search literature, generate reviews, analyse papers, and draft sections of theses, dissertations, papers, and assignments. That said, you remain responsible for the original thinking, analysis, and verification behind your work, and for following your institution's policies on AI-assisted research and writing.

ResearchPal offers a free-forever plan alongside Standard, Best, and custom institutional plans. Credits are the currency behind AI-heavy actions — like generating a literature review or running Paper Insights — and each plan includes a monthly credit allowance. You can start on the free plan with no card required, and upgrade only once you need more.

General AI tools generate text from what they already "know," which can drift from real sources. ResearchPal instead builds answers around actual academic papers — searching real literature, grounding output in retrievable sources, generating citations, analysing PDFs directly, and organising everything inside a research-specific workspace, rather than a general chat window.

Uploaded documents are processed to power the features you use — not to train ResearchPal's underlying AI models. You control deletion of documents and history, and access is protected with encryption and access controls. Still, treat AI-generated facts, summaries, quotations, and citations as a draft to verify, and follow your university's or publisher's policy on AI use in academic work.