Tools for academics
LaTeX tools and AI manuscript review
Free in-browser tools for LaTeX, citations and document conversion, plus pay-per-use AI checks for a manuscript before it goes out. The free tools process files in memory and never store them. Each paid tool explains its data handling on its own page.
AI manuscript review · paid
Pay-per-use AI checks for a manuscript before it goes out: $2 to $15 each, no account, deleted soon after delivery. Volume packs for labs; every price on one page.
Paper Review
Four AI reviewers read your manuscript before a journal does: methods, statistics, data integrity and the editor's view, with every reference checked against CrossRef. Markdown report and annotated PDF.
Start a review → $6Response to Reviewers
Red-team your reply letter before it goes back to the editor.
Check my response → $3Citation Gap Analysis
Find the prior work your manuscript should cite but doesn't.
Find the gaps → $2Anonymity Check
Catch double-blind leaks a desk reject would catch first.
Scan my manuscript → $2Cover Letter
A calibrated draft built from your abstract and target journal.
Draft my letter → $2Revision Review
Confirm your revisions actually addressed the original review.
Check my revision → From $38Volume Packs
Discounted Paper Review tokens for labs and repeat use. Never expire.
See pack pricing → $5Resume Review
Would your resume clear an ATS filter and a real screen?
Start a review →LaTeX manuscript tools
Compile, compare, and produce publication-ready artifacts from .tex sources.
LaTeX to PDF
Upload a .tex file and get a compiled PDF. pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX.
LaTeX Diff
Upload two versions and get a tracked-changes comparison PDF.
Equation Renderer
Paste LaTeX math and download a high-resolution PNG image.
LaTeX Table Generator
Paste CSV or TSV data and get a clean booktabs LaTeX table.
Convert between formats
Move documents in and out of LaTeX, Markdown, and Word.
LaTeX to Word
Convert a .tex paper into a standard double-spaced Word manuscript.
Word to LaTeX
Upload a .docx and download a .tex starting point via Pandoc.
Markdown to PDF or Word
Paste or upload Markdown and download a clean PDF or .docx.
File to Markdown
Convert PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, CSV, or EPUB to clean Markdown.
PDF to Structured Data
Extraction-grade PDF parsing: reading-order Markdown and RAG-ready JSON, with tables, math as LaTeX, and figure captions.
Citations and bibliographies
Build, verify, and convert reference lists across the major formats.
BibTeX Validator
Check citations for missing fields, dead DOIs, and AI hallucinations.
Retraction Checker
Paste references or DOIs and check each against Crossref for retractions.
BibTeX Builder
Paste DOIs or arXiv IDs and download a ready-to-use .bib file.
Citation Generator
Look up a DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID and get APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE.
Reference Converter
Convert citations between BibTeX, RIS, and EndNote formats.
Reference Formats by Venue
What IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, MISQ, and other venues expect, preset to convert.
Utilities
A few odds and ends that pair well with the tools above.
Response Letter Template
Paste the reviewer comments; get every one numbered and quoted with space for your reply. Markdown, LaTeX or plain text.
Submission Checklist
Twelve checks before you submit, each with the tool that does it. Progress saved in your browser.
PDF Tools
Merge, split, and compress PDFs. Merge and split run in your browser.
Metadata Cleaner
Remove author names, GPS and edit history from photos, PDFs, Office files and video, or cover parts of a picture. Nothing is uploaded.
Transcript Cleaner
Turn a Zoom or Teams .vtt, an .srt or a labelled .txt into readable text, with speaker names kept if you want them. Nothing is uploaded.
Word Counter
Live word, character, sentence, and reading-time stats in your browser.
Thesis Format Checker
Margins, font size, embedded fonts, page numbers and line spacing of a thesis PDF, measured in your browser.
Replication Package Checker
README sections, random seeds, absolute paths and missing data files in a replication package zip, checked in your browser.
Camera-Ready PDF Checker
Embedded and Type 3 fonts, page size, margins, page numbers and metadata of an accepted paper's final PDF, checked in your browser.
Abstract Checker
Your abstract's word count against the limit of 25 journals and conferences.
Desktop apps from the same studio
For the work these tools sit next to: writing the manuscript, and keeping track of where it went.
ModernTex for Mac
A native LaTeX editor with synced PDF preview, BibTeX completion by author or title, and a submission check.
See ModernTex →
Vitae for Mac
Submissions, grants, projects and your CV in one local-first app, with an optional Plus subscription.
See Vitae →Privacy-respecting tools, free and paid
The free tools are LaTeX, citation, and conversion utilities for academic authors — compile to PDF, convert to and from Word, diff versions, validate BibTeX, render equations, and more. They run in your browser against a hosted backend; your files are processed in memory and discarded the moment your download is ready, so unpublished manuscripts stay private.
The paid Paper Review tool runs an AI red-team review of an uploaded manuscript. Because that review depends on a third-party language model (Anthropic's Claude API), its data-handling guarantees are necessarily different from the in-house free tools; the Paper Review page discloses retention details clearly before you upload.
Frequently asked questions
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