Moara
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Moara, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Moara's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Up to 50 papers per review library · Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar search · Zotero and LibKey connections · Viewer or Editor collaboration |
| Core | $15 a month | Unlimited libraries · Unlimited papers per review library · Agent · AI Search · Writing-editor Agent and Autocomplete · Automatic missing-metadata finding · USD / month billed annually |
| Pro | $40 a month | Enrichments Directory · Quick and bulk actions · PDF annotation · Screen and Read views · Early advanced-feature access · Priority access during high traffic · USD / month billed annually |
| Teams & Institutions | Priced on request | Dedicated account manager · Custom integrations and APIs · Advanced analytics and reporting · SSO and enterprise security · Training and onboarding · SLA guarantees · Custom data retention |
The facts
Each one read from Moara's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI agent
- Its Agent can summarize papers, identify themes, find gaps, compare findings, and answer research requests.checked 1 Oct 2026
- AI search strategy
- The Agent proposes keywords, databases, related topics and citation-trail approaches instead of automatically replacing the researcher’s search decisions.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API and extensibility
- The Teams & Institutions plan advertises custom integrations and APIs, but no public API reference or SDK is identified on the cited pages.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Moara says it serves academics, graduate students, librarians, research administrators, individual researchers, and library teams.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Teams can invite collaborators as Editors or Viewers, share annotations and work in real time in the web application.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Enrichments
- Pro and institutional accounts can add fields from Crossref, Semantic Scholar and AI extraction, and users can define custom enrichments.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Exports
- The product exports formatted bibliographies and supports CSV, BibTeX and RIS exports; cited styles include APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, IEEE and Harvard.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Founders
- Moara’s About page names John Frechette as co-founder and CEO, Seth Watson as co-founder and CTO, and Dr. Yifei Xu as co-founder and researcher.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Full-text reading
- The Read workflow provides an in-platform PDF viewer with highlights, comments, tags and searchable annotation tracking.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Imports
- Users can import PDFs, RIS, NBIB, TXT, or ZIP files and connect Zotero and LibKey.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Named integrations include Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zotero, LibKey and Crossref.checked 14 Oct 2026
- LibKey capability
- LibKey integration supplies library-linked full-text access and can expose retraction-related fields such as Expression of Concern and Retraction Notice.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: accessibility
- The independent review said accessibility compliance was incomplete and still being improved.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: AI extraction variability
- The reviewer found that AI-generated enrichment quality changes with prompt wording, how explicit the paper is and the amount of interpretation required.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: citation provenance
- The reviewer found that Moara does not automatically record whether a citation came from a particular database import, a user or AI search.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: systematic-review controls
- The reviewer reported no dedicated exclusion-reason fields, no stage-by-stage paper counts for PRISMA diagrams and no blind screening mode.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Notable news: Google Scholar
- Moara announced that Google Scholar search became integrated on November 17, 2025.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Notable news: public launch
- Toarn reports that Moara launched publicly in April 2025 and was backed by Right Side Capital Management.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Paper discovery
- Users can search Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar and access a corpus described as more than 200 million scholarly papers.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Paper importing
- Papers can be added from PDFs, citation files, Zotero collections, RIS, BibTeX and title lists.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Praise: guided research
- An independent Katina Magazine review praised the Agent for concrete search strategies, database suggestions and citation-trail guidance useful to beginners.checked 14 Oct 2026
The company
- Company headquarters
- The privacy policy gives Moara Inc.’s address as 2300 Wilson Blvd, Suite 700, Arlington, Virginia 22201, United States.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The privacy policy identifies the provider as Moara Inc.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists moara.io as privately held with 2–10 employees and headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.checked 14 Oct 2026
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