ResearchMind AI v3.1 — available now

Stop losing hours
searching through PDFs

Ask a question — ResearchMind AI finds the answer and the exact page from your documents. Correct citations generated automatically, direct export to Word.

Answers with exact PDF page number
Academic citations generated automatically
7 academic databases searched in parallel
Offline · 100% private · No subscription
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Features

Everything a serious researcher needs

Built for PhD students, professors and academics who work with hundreds of documents and need precision.

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Chat with your PDFs

Ask any research question in natural language. ResearchMind finds the exact answer with the page number from your local PDFs — no internet needed.

CHAT
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Word Bridge — Auto Export

One click inserts the AI answer at your cursor in Microsoft Word — with correctly formatted footnotes and complete bibliography generated automatically.

WORD
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7 Academic Databases

One search queries OpenAlex, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, ArXiv, CORE, Internet Archive and DOAJ simultaneously. Unpaywall finds free PDFs automatically.

ONLINE
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Zettelkasten Notes

Notes linked to PDF sources, semantic search between ideas, visual knowledge graph of document connections. Never lose an idea again.

NOTES
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Offline & Private

Your PDFs never leave your computer. Only question text is sent to the AI service. Can run fully offline with Ollama — zero internet traffic.

PRIVACY
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OCR for Scanned PDFs

Tesseract OCR with support for 16+ languages including Latin, Greek and Romanian. Makes searchable text from image-only scanned documents.

OCR
Online Search

7 academic databases — one search

No subscriptions. No separate browser tabs. All 7 sources queried in parallel, results deduplicated and ranked by relevance.

DatabaseContentBest for
OpenAlex250M+ scholarly worksBroad search, citation counts
CrossRef140M+ DOI-registered articlesCorrect citation metadata
Semantic ScholarAI-powered academic searchDiscovering related research
ArXivPreprints in science/math/CSLatest research, always free
CORE200M+ open access full-textDownloadable PDFs
Internet ArchiveMillions of scanned booksPatristics, theology, classics
DOAJ20,000+ peer-reviewed OA journalsTheology, humanities, social sciences

+ Unpaywall automatically finds free legal PDF versions for paywalled articles

Comparison

ResearchMind AI vs Jenni AI

Both are AI writing assistants for academics — but built for very different workflows.

Feature Jenni AI ResearchMind AI
Works offline✗ No✓ Yes
Searches your own PDFs✗ No✓ Yes — semantically
PDFs stay on your computer✗ Uploaded to servers✓ Always local
Academic databases searchedSemantic Scholar only✓ 7 databases
Word integration (auto footnotes)✗ No✓ Yes — Word Bridge
Internet Archive / patristics✗ No✓ Yes
Zettelkasten notes✗ No✓ Yes + knowledge graph
Free trialLimited free plan✓ free trial, no credit card

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Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Start free for free trial. No credit card required. Full access to all features from day one.

Trial
Free
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  • All features unlocked
  • Unlimited PDFs
  • All 7 databases
  • Word Bridge export
  • No license key needed
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  • All features — always
  • All future updates
  • Priority support
  • 1 Windows PC
  • Offline — no subscription lock
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Lifetime
99
One-time payment · forever
  • All features — forever
  • All future updates included
  • Priority support
  • 1 Windows PC
  • Best value for PhD duration
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes. All PDF indexing and semantic search runs locally on your computer. You only need internet for the AI response (OpenAI API) or if you use the online database search. With Ollama, you can run everything 100% offline.
No. Your PDF files never leave your computer. Only the text of your questions is sent to the AI service. All indexing (vector embeddings) is done locally using an ONNX model.
ResearchMind AI works differently from Jenni AI. While Jenni AI is a cloud-based writing assistant, ResearchMind AI searches your own local PDFs, works offline, keeps all documents private, and integrates directly with Microsoft Word. It searches 7 academic databases including Internet Archive and DOAJ — particularly useful for theology and humanities research.
Full access to every feature — PDF chat, Word Bridge, 7 database search, Zettelkasten, knowledge graph, OCR, PhD dashboard. No credit card required, no account needed. Download and run immediately.
OpenAlex (250M+ works), CrossRef (140M+ DOI articles), Semantic Scholar, ArXiv (preprints), CORE (200M+ open access), Internet Archive (scanned books, patristics, historical texts), and DOAJ (20,000+ peer-reviewed open access journals). Unpaywall automatically finds free PDF versions for paywalled articles.
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Search 7 Academic Databases Simultaneously

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