According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-10, the Chrome extension SciSpace Stage has 300,000 users (+50% MoM), rated 4.3 (144 reviews) — ranked #49 of 10,012 AI browser extensions, and #5 of 727 in Education & Research.
What is SciSpace Stage
SciSpace Stage works alongside the paper or report you are reading and answers questions about it on the same page. Highlighting technical language, an acronym or a dense paragraph brings back a plain explanation, and follow-up questions are answered with citations. It also covers maths and tables inside PDFs, and the assistant can be used in 13 languages.
- 01Simplify jargon, acronyms and complex paragraphs by highlighting them
- 02Ask your own questions or pick from preset questions while reading an article
- 03Clip unfamiliar equations or tables from a PDF to find out what they mean
- 04Interact with the assistant in 13 languages and receive explanations in your own language
- 05Bookmark a URL to save articles and PDFs to your SciSpace collection and return to them later
- 06Find research papers related to any passage you highlight
- 07Use the Literature Review tool to search insights from 270 million+ papers, with a citation and source location for every answer
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Your AI research assistant for understanding scientific literature. Your AI research assistant for discovering and analyzing scientific literature.
With SciSpace, you no longer have to open new tabs and Google unfamiliar concepts every time you come across one.
Just ask SciSpace for research-backed explanations or summaries for any text, maths, and tables in any research paper, technical blog post, or report you’re reading. You can also ask follow-up questions, and it will give you answers with citations.
With SciSpace for Chrome, you can:
👌 Simplify technical language — SciSpace gives you simple explanations for jargon, acronyms, and complex paragraphs. All you need to do is highlight them.
🤿 Delve deeper while learning — Choose from SciSpace’s preset questions or ask your own if you have doubts while reading an article.
🔢 Understand math and tables in PDFs — Clip unfamiliar math equations or tables using SciSpace to find out what exactly they mean.
🌐 Toggle between multiple languages — Interact with SciSpace in 13 languages and get explanations in your native language.
🔖 Bookmark the URL — Save any article or PDF to your collection in SciSpace. Come back to it any time and pick up right where you left.
📡 Find related papers – Discover research papers related to any passage you highlight.
What’s new:
Literature Review – Want to inquire about a research question or topic you have in mind? Ask the Lit. Review tool and find insights from 270 million+ papers in the SciSpace repository.
Citations in answers – No more fake references or misinformation. Copilot now gives a citation with every answer along with the location of the source.
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Data month: 2026-10 · User counts and ratings come from public Chrome Web Store data, aggregated monthly. See methodology.