5 Unbelievably Useful AI Tools for Research 2025 (Better Than ChatGPT)

About this Video

• Video Title: 5 Unbelievably Useful AI Tools for Research 2025 (Better Than ChatGPT)
• Channel: Andy Stapleton
• Speakers: Andy Stapleton
• Duration: 00:10:46

Introduction

This video reviews five AI tools superior to ChatGPT for research in 2025. The speaker highlights each tool's capabilities and suitability for academic research, emphasizing features like outline creation, literature review assistance, plagiarism checks, and hallucination rates.

Key Takeaways

• PaperPal: A Word plugin offering rewriting, citing, outlining, and research capabilities. Particularly useful for overcoming writer's block and creating structured outlines.
• NotebookLM: Enables multi-document chat using reference lists, Google Drive documents, and other sources. Creates mind maps to visualize research themes.
• Scispace: An all-around tool for various research tasks, including PDF chatting, literature reviews, AI writing, paraphrasing, and data extraction.
• Paper Wizard: Provides peer-reviewed feedback on submitted work (thesis chapters, papers), offering a pre-submission review before sending to editors.
• Gemini AI 2.5: A large language model with a low hallucination rate, ideal for generating literature reviews with accurate referencing and in-depth research. The speaker highlights its ability to uncover references missed by other tools.