Afforai

Afforai is an AI research assistant and reference manager that summarizes, translates, and organizes documents with verifiable citations in over 10,000 styles.

Afforai combines a reference manager with an AI research layer, letting scholars and knowledge workers chat with their document libraries to get summaries, translations, and answers grounded in verifiable citations. It automatically tracks metadata, generates citations in more than 10,000 styles, and can import libraries from other reference managers, positioning it as an AI-native alternative to traditional tools like Zotero or Mendeley. The free plan gives access to your whole library with up to 20 AI queries per day using standard models such as GPT-4o mini and Claude Haiku, while paid tiers unlock unlimited queries and access to more advanced models. Team plans add collaborative libraries for research groups, and a browser-based Cite extension helps insert references while writing. Afforai targets students, researchers, and academics who want to move faster through literature without losing citation rigor. Its emphasis on verifiable citations and broad style support addresses a real pain point in AI-assisted research, where hallucinated or unsourced claims are a risk. For casual note-takers it may be more than needed, but for citation-heavy workflows it is well aimed.