Jenni

Jenni is a workspace for reading, writing and citing research, with claims linked to sources, for graduate students, research teams and analysts.

  • Free plan
  • Verified 16 Oct 2026

What Jenni does

Jenni lets researchers read, write and cite in one workspace, and it traces claims back to their sources. It offers a freemium model, and its Free plan allows 10 AI Autocompletes per day, 10 PDF uploads, 3 AI Edits, 5 AI Chat messages, 3 Reviews and 3 Workflow runs. Signup is self-serve.

Built for

  • Graduate students and PhD candidates
  • Universities and research labs
  • Academic research teams
  • Pharma and medical teams
  • Policy and government analysts
  • Market research and consulting

Key features

  • Traceable citations linking AI-suggested sentences to source PDF location
  • 10,000+ citation styles
  • AI Chat across your library with cited answers
  • Source-grounded autocomplete drawing from your curated library
  • Reviews analyzing claims against sources and flagging issues
  • Real-time co-authoring and comments
  • Semantic search across 200M+ academic papers
  • Import from Zotero and Mendeley

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Citations tie AI-suggested sentences to the matching location in the source PDF.
  • Supports more than 10,000 citation styles.
  • Imports existing libraries from Zotero and Mendeley.
  • Semantic search covers more than 200 million academic papers.
  • Offers real-time co-authoring and comments.

Cons

  • The Free plan caps usage at 10 AI Autocompletes per day, 10 PDF uploads, 3 AI Edits, 5 AI Chat messages, 3 Reviews and 3 Workflow runs.

Where Jenni is listed

Jenni is listed under AI tools for academic paper research in Research AI tools.

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