As of September 2026, AlphaMoat tracks 46 AI browser extensions tagged AI for Science. The most-installed is SciSpace Stage (200.0K users). Ranked by install count, updated monthly.
| # | Extension | Publisher | Users | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SciSpace Stage is a research assistant that explains papers, maths and tables in place, so you never have to leave the page to look things up. | Typeset | 200.0K | ★ 4.4 |
| 2 | Mapify turns YouTube videos, PDFs, webpages, and chats into interactive AI-generated mind maps for faster learning and summarization. | SUPERMIND | 100.0K | ★ 4.1 |
| 3 | Read research papers faster with AI summaries, explanations, translation, and citation search. | themoonlight | 100.0K | ★ 4.7 |
| 4 | Scholarcy summarises research articles in the browser with highlighted key points, interactive flashcards and links to open-access versions of citations. | Scholarcy | 80.0K | ★ 4.0 |
| 5 | CatalyzeX finds and shows open-source code implementations for research papers as you browse Google, ArXiv, Scholar, GitHub and X. | catalyzex | 50.0K | ★ 4.8 |
| 6 | Elicit is an AI research assistant that fetches full-text papers and streamlines systematic reviews. | Elicit | 30.0K | ★ 4.5 |
| 7 | Clip PDFs, webpages and YouTube videos into Anara, with AI summarization and smart tagging. | anara | 10.0K | ★ 4.4 |
| 8 | Save PDFs to your ReadPaper account in one click while browsing research papers online. | readpaper | 10.0K | ★ 5.0 |
| 9 | An AI research assistant for Overleaf that fixes LaTeX, manages citations and builds figures. | Einsia | 8.0K | ★ 5.0 |
| 10 | SolarXiv summarizes arXiv papers with Solar LLM technology to surface key insights in one click. | - | 5.0K | ★ 3.8 |
| 11 | InfraNodus turns content into an interactive knowledge graph that reveals main topics and blind spots and helps steer LLM reasoning. | InfraNodus | 2.0K | ★ 5.0 |
| 12 | arXiv Copilot is an AI reading assistant that answers questions, reviews papers, and recommends similar research on arXiv. | - | 2.0K | ★ 4.7 |
| 13 | Underleaf turns screenshots, handwriting and plain-English descriptions into publication-ready LaTeX, with compiled previews. | underleaf | 2.0K | ★ 4.8 |
| 14 | Paperguide saves research papers, retrieves full-text PDFs through institutional access, and creates browser citations. | Paperguide | 1.0K | ★ 4.5 |
| 15 | SciGPT uses ChatGPT to summarize scientific papers and generate insights, questions, suggestions, and references. | Singularity Labs | 988 | - |
| 16 | Open browser-based PDF papers in Youdao Speed Reading for summaries, interpretation, reviews, and document Q&A. | youdao | 907 | ★ 4.0 |
| 17 | DeepPDF saves papers from arXiv and bioRxiv for AI chatting, summarizing and full-text translation on its platform. | deeppdf | 861 | ★ 5.0 |
| 18 | CORA classifies PubMed citation contexts and surfaces related science news and grants. | - | 620 | - |
| 19 | Chat Scholar (KuXueshu) is an academic assistant with AI literature recommendations, instant translation, and citation management. | Increscence | 504 | ★ 5.0 |
| 20 | SciGemini summarizes scientific papers on journal websites and surfaces key insights using Google Gemini. | Singularity Labs | 481 | ★ 5.0 |
| 21 | Saral AI turns arXiv papers and educational web pages into videos, podcasts, slides, and structured notes with AI. | - | 387 | ★ 5.0 |
| 22 | An AI summarizer for YouTube videos with research-backed claim checks and cited Q&A. | evidence-lens | 229 | ★ 5.0 |
| 23 | Scientific paper exploration tool that maps citation connotations and linguistic similarity for research. | - | 215 | ★ 5.0 |
| 24 | GeoGPT is an AI research companion for scientists that answers questions with multiple models, compares responses, and saves webpages and documents into a personal library. | - | 209 | - |
| 25 | Science Search is a free AI research companion that turns any selected text or video into a curated summary with the most relevant academic papers. | odoo | 199 | ★ 4.0 |
| 26 | Find similar research papers in one click, powered by the Exa AI search engine API. | - | 198 | ★ 5.0 |
| 27 | Import staged Zotero sources into Gemini Notebook | - | 194 | ★ 5.0 |
| 28 | AI-powered citation search and paper review for Overleaf with LLM-based ranking and BYOK support. | - | 192 | - |
| 29 | The Formula Editor is a free tool developed by ProcessOn, integrated with AI, which helps you quickly generate and edit formulas. | 大麦地信息技术 | 179 | ★ 5.0 |
| 30 | ArXiv Insight summarizes ArXiv papers with AI, surfacing key insights, contributions, and conclusions from complex research in one click. | Vaibhav Nakrani | 157 | - |
| 31 | CiteBuddy creates formatted citations from webpages and PDFs by using AI to identify missing source details. | - | 116 | ★ 5.0 |
| 32 | Gemini Notebook Research Prompts keeps 14 literature-review prompts one click away. | saludeverywhere | 99 | - |
| 33 | AI Scholar is a research and academic writing assistant, from literature reviews to thesis statements. | teachany | 82 | - |
| 34 | NotebookLM Tab Importer sends open pages and links to selected NotebookLM notebooks directly from the browser. | - | 81 | ★ 5.0 |
| 35 | ChatGPT Citations turns a ChatGPT conversation into BibTeX entries you can drop into your bibliography. | - | 81 | ★ 4.0 |
| 36 | PaperBanana generates publication-ready academic illustrations from paper text through a five-agent AI pipeline. | PaperBanana | 77 | - |
| 37 | Keyanjia is a Chinese-language research assistant that answers questions, reads papers, and translates full texts in the browser. | - | 67 | ★ 5.0 |
| 38 | Bioscript is an AI research copilot for scientists and students that discovers papers, explains methods and organises your literature library in the browser. | bioscriptai | 55 | ★ 5.0 |
| 39 | arXiv GPT summarizer reads an arXiv paper's title and abstract and inserts an OpenAI-generated summary into the listing page. | - | 51 | - |
| 40 | LLM-powered qualitative coding for researchers inside Google Sheets. | Max Lu | 46 | ★ 5.0 |
| 41 | AI fact checker: verify claims & sources, catch logical fallacies, cite & summarize, and cold email professors for research. | citex | 33 | ★ 3.7 |
| 42 | Chat Figures uses AI to split compound scientific figures into sub-images you can customize, download and export as JSON labels. | chatfigures | 31 | - |
| 43 | Turns plain-language formula descriptions into clean LaTeX by chatting with AI, step by step. | texttolatex | 19 | ★ 5.0 |
| 44 | Brings AI research and writing tools to your side panel: chat, compare, translate. | Researchmonkey | 15 | ★ 5.0 |
| 45 | Shows Gemini's cited sources in a side panel and links each sentence back to its reference. | - | 13 | ★ 5.0 |
| 46 | Enhance articles with AI Research Scholar. Opens https://airesearchscholar.com/open?pmid= or ?doi=. | airesearchscholar | 12 | - |
In September 2026, SciSpace Stage (200.0K users) ranks #1 by users, followed by Mapify (100.0K users) and Moonlight (100.0K users).
Ranked by users, the top 10 are: 1. SciSpace Stage, 2. Mapify, 3. Moonlight, 4. Scholarcy Browser Extension, 5. AI Code Finder, Alerts, Ask Questions about Papers, 6. Elicit, 7. Anara Web Clipper, 8. ReadPaper Importer, 9. Einsia for Overleaf, 10. SolarXiv.
AlphaMoat tracks 46 AI for Science Chrome extensions, ranked by users. User counts come from public Chrome Web Store data. Updated monthly; the current data is for September 2026.
Lists every Chrome extension carrying this tag, ranked by latest-month install count. See methodology.