# Alfred Scholar > The calm research workspace for scholars who would rather be thinking. Alfred Scholar unifies document management, AI chat, manuscript writing, citation management, plagiarism detection, and team collaboration in one workspace. Alfred Scholar is a research platform built for academics, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and research teams. Instead of switching between Zotero, Mendeley, Google Scholar, Overleaf, and standalone AI tools, researchers use one workspace for their entire workflow. The mission behind it: a world-class research workflow, affordable for every researcher on the planet. ## Core Features - [AI Document Chat](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/chat-with-documents): Upload research papers and ask questions in natural language. Alfred finds relevant passages across your library and responds with inline citations pointing to exact page numbers. - [Research Library](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/uploading-documents): Upload PDFs, auto-extract metadata (DOI, authors, journal, abstract), full-text index every page for instant search across your entire library. - [Citation Manager](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/managing-citations): Import from BibTeX and RIS, auto-extract references from PDFs, DOI lookup, export in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, and Vancouver formats. - [Citations](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/citations): Browse and manage your citation library with support for manual entry, external import, and auto-extraction from uploaded documents. - [Manuscript Editor](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/writing-manuscripts): Rich-text academic writing with auto-save, submission guideline enforcement, and real-time team collaboration. - [AI Rewrite](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/writing-manuscripts): Select any text in a manuscript and rewrite it in 5 tones (Humanize, Formal, Concise, Expand, Fix Grammar) with 3 alternatives and citations preserved. - [Plagiarism Detection](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/plagiarism-detection): Check manuscripts against all documents in your workspace for unintentional overlap before submission. - [PDF Annotations](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/reading-and-annotating): Highlight text, draw region selections, color-coded notes with a structured sidebar for review. - [Peer Reviews](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/peer-reviews): Assign manuscripts to reviewers, collect structured feedback with inline comments, track the entire review cycle within the workspace. - [Team Workspaces](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/workspaces): Multi-user collaboration with role-based access (Owner, Colleague, Reviewer). Workspace-scoped data isolation ensures research stays private. - [Zotero Sync](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/managing-citations): Connect your Zotero account and import your reference library, PDFs, and annotations into Alfred Scholar. - [Mendeley Sync](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/managing-citations): Connect your Mendeley account and import your references, PDFs, and annotations into Alfred Scholar. - Voice Input: Use your microphone to ask questions in AI chat or dictate directly into the manuscript editor. Supports English with optional clean-up mode. - Gift Codes: Generate and redeem gift codes to give Pro or Lab access to collaborators, students, or partners. - Search: Search by title across manuscripts, peer reviews, and plagiarism reports with instant results. - Razorpay Payments: Subscribe to Pro or Lab plans with UPI, cards, and net banking. Upgrade or downgrade at any time. ## Documentation - [Getting Started](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/getting-started): Create an account, set up your first workspace, and upload your first paper. - [Introduction](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/introduction): Overview of Alfred Scholar and what it does. - [Uploading Documents](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/uploading-documents): How to upload and organize research papers. - [Chat with Documents](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/chat-with-documents): How AI document chat works. - [Reading and Annotating](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/reading-and-annotating): PDF viewer, highlights, and annotations. - [Organizing with Folders](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/organizing-with-folders): Folder organization for your research library. - [Managing Citations](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/managing-citations): Importing, managing, and exporting citations. - [Citations](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/citations): Citation library overview, manual entry, and external import. - [Citation Styles](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/citation-styles): Custom citation formatting (APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, Vancouver). - [Writing Manuscripts](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/writing-manuscripts): The manuscript editor, AI rewrite, and writing workflow. - [Manuscript Guidelines](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/manuscript-guidelines): Setting up submission guidelines and validation rules. - [Manuscript Images](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/manuscript-images): Embedding images in manuscripts. - [Peer Reviews](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/peer-reviews): Reviewer assignment and feedback tracking. - [Plagiarism Detection](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/plagiarism-detection): Originality checking against documents in your workspace. - [Workspaces](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/workspaces): Creating and managing workspaces. - [Team Members](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/team-members): Inviting collaborators and managing roles. - [Roles and Permissions](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/roles-and-permissions): Owner, Colleague, and Reviewer roles explained. - [Plans and Billing](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/plans-and-billing): Plans, pricing, usage limits, and billing management. - [Account Settings](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/account-settings): Profile, security, and two-factor authentication. - [Trash and Recovery](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/trash-and-recovery): Recovering deleted documents and data. - [Security](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/security): Data privacy, workspace isolation, and security practices. ## Key Information - Alfred Scholar offers three plans: Free (no card required), Pro, and Lab (for teams up to 10 seats). See [Pricing](https://www.alfredscholar.com/pricing) for details. - Free: 10 documents, 100 AI messages per month, 1 plagiarism check per month, Standard AI model. - Pro: Rs 499/month or Rs 4,999/year. Unlimited documents, unlimited AI messages, 5 plagiarism checks per month, Advanced AI model. - Lab: Rs 2,499/month or Rs 24,999/year. Up to 10 seats with shared workspaces, Frontier AI model, unlimited plagiarism checks. - Annual billing gets you 2 months free on both paid plans. - Research data is workspace-scoped and never shared with third parties or used to train AI models. - Currently supports PDF files. DOCX and LaTeX support coming soon. - Citations can be exported in BibTeX and RIS formats. - Integrations with Google Scholar, arXiv, Overleaf, and Google Drive are on the roadmap. ## Links - [Homepage](https://www.alfredscholar.com) - [Documentation](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs) - [Register](https://www.alfredscholar.com/register) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.alfredscholar.com/privacy) - [Terms of Service](https://www.alfredscholar.com/terms) - [Contact](https://www.alfredscholar.com/contact) - [Blog](https://www.alfredscholar.com/blog) - [Changelog](https://www.alfredscholar.com/changelog)