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24 alternatives to Help a Scientist

Contribute to a real scientific project in your spare time

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Help a Scientist launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
AI Writer Chrome Extension▲377
Use an advanced AI to help you write content
2021 · contentbot.ai · its alternatives →
2
RESEARCHER▲82
An app designed for academics
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
3
ScientificHub▲73
Write and publish scientific work for free
2021 · its alternatives →
4
TechForReporters▲136
Reporters and technologists helping each other
2017 · techforreporters.com · its alternatives →
5
Hypothesis▲92
Enabling you to make notes across the web
2023 · web.hypothes.is · its alternatives →
6
LabWorm▲235
Product Hunt for science
2017 · its alternatives →
7
Amie▲145
GitHub for research and data science
2019 · amie.ai · its alternatives →
8
Inverse▲115
Team conversations and knowledge sharing on any webpage
2020 · inverse.network · its alternatives →
9
Pigeon▲99
Hey HN, My friend and I built a Chrome extension called Pigeon because we kept Googling “Reddit + [product name]” whenever we wanted to know what real people thought about something. Pigeon saves that step by looking at what’s on the page, finding related Reddit discussions, and showing the most helpful comments and opinions in one place. We’ve both found it super useful when researching products or topics online and thought others might too. Check it out and let me know what you think!
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
10
ExplainDev▲79
The programmer's assistant of the future
2022 · its alternatives →
11
JavaScript port of Scientist library for refactoring critical paths▲34
:microscope: A JavaScript interpretation of the Ruby library Scientist, a library for carefully refactoring critical paths. - bugthesystem/scientist.js
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
F1000Workspace▲84
Discover, annotate, write and share scientific research.
2016 · sciwheel.com · its alternatives →
13
HappiLabs▲71
Virtual lab managers for scientists
2018 · scienceexchange.com · its alternatives →
14
SciSummary▲67
Use AI to summarize scientific articles
2023 · scisummary.com · its alternatives →
15
Authorea▲94
GitHub for scientific works
2014 · authorea.com · its alternatives →
16
Extensions Af Bot▲94
The dopest chrome extensions ever, served to you by a bot
2017 · messenger.com · its alternatives →
17
Scholarlys▲79
Keep up with the latest scientific research
2021 · its alternatives →
18
An open distributed search engine for science▲98
I’ve started building a distributed search engine for scholarly literature, which is completely contained within a browser extension: install it from the Chrome Web Store. It uses WebRTC and magic, and is currently, like, right now, used by 0 people. It’s you who can be number...
2014 · juretriglav.si · its alternatives →
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OpenSourcePal▲21
Make contributing to Open Source 10x less confusing for you
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply▲26
2024 · simplescience.ai · its alternatives →
21
Science Gossip▲68
Help Scientists Map the Origins of Citizen Science
2015 · sciencegossip.org · its alternatives →
22
Research Buddy▲87
Buddy for web, patent and academic research
2023 · research.trelis.com · its alternatives →
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Analytics Assist▲13
Analytics Assist – Built to Democratize Data Science
2025 · its alternatives →
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ForskningNu▲5
Helping scientists and researchers find research subjects
2021 · trialtree.com · its alternatives →

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