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Q: How Seat Works

Hi,

May I ask how the Team's seat works?
How do I assign seats to others?

bestpikaPLUSMay 7, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

May 7, 2025

A: Hi—great question!

Team seats are assigned to a Company. So each higher Tier will come with Company seats which can be shared between users.


NB: Project Boards and Shared Workspaces can also have people join, but they will need their own accounts.

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Q: How does search credit works?

How does credit works? It seems like when I type in 1 question after creating a project (under the add search column), I can literally see that the credits used keeps on increasing even though the column is still loading. After loading, it uses like 7 credits just for 1 question. I have not done anything much and it uses up 27 credits.

lewisphuaPLUSMay 4, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

May 4, 2025

A: Hi Lewis, sorry about this issue. We're still facing problems with the credit system for some users. I will forward your message directly to my technical co-founder—thanks for the detailed description.

In the meantime, could you please email me at support@readwonderds.com with your associated email and I will take a deeper look & add more credits while we work on a fix.

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Q: Are these tasks currently possible?

I'd like to know if this tool can help me with any of these tasks:

1) Can it help me find a research gap based on sources I have selected, and then assist me to come up with a suitable title for my literature review?

2) Can it help me write an annotated bibliography for each of my sources? (150 to 300 words per source)

3) Can it write in my voice? Can it take a piece of writing and rewrite it in my voice?

4) Can it automatically create citations in APA style from sources I provide it with, so I won't have to do it manually?

Thank you

Opal13241May 4, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

May 4, 2025

A: Hi Opal, thanks for your questions. Our workspace specializes in speeding up and improving the quality of literature retrieval and processing.

1) Finding research gaps — you can achieve this by setting up multiple searches with the right filters and sorting. As of now it is more of a manual process. We'll be building specific tools for this in the future. Adding a vote for this to our roadmap.

2) We don't currently support annotated bibliographies, but it's a great idea! Adding to our roadmap.

3) We're not especially focused on writing outputs. For us they're more means to an end (except for business use). I'd point you to tools that already do an amazing job at this—like Grammarly or Jasper.ai

4) Yes, bibliography is automatically generated for the sources you find on Wonders. We do support APA format.

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Q: OCR research

Hello,
How well does it supports OCR based contents? which including data, tables and formulas?

Dlee254PLUSMay 3, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

Edited May 3, 2025

A: Hi, not at the moment. We will be working on PDF upload and scanning in future versions, table and formula extraction are valuable and we'll be considering the different needs, but I don't have an exact timeline for these features yet. Here's our full roadmap, in case that helps! https://roadmap.readwonders.com/

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Q: Wonders vs Consensus?

Your unlimited tier would cover about 5 years of my Consensus current subscription. How do you compare and what makes Wonders much better than Consensus to entice us?

Bo90357May 1, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Edited May 1, 2025

A: Great question—Consensus is a solid tool for pulling fast summaries from academic papers. Wonders goes deeper: we guide you through the full research process—searching across multiple sources, organizing findings in visual boards, synthesizing with AI, and exporting polished outputs. It’s built for when you need more than a quick answer—when you’re doing actual research work, not just browsing conclusions given by typical chat- or summarization- based systems.

That said, Wonders is also really fast. You can conduct a robust lit-rev in just 5-minutes, while having much more control over the system than with Consensus.

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Q: DOES RESOURCE INCLUDE MEDICAL DIRECTLY RELATED TO VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH?

Hello, I noticed your application and was impressed by the extensive resource section it offers. I would like to inquire whether your research capabilities include medical-related resources. Specifically, I am interested in medical research concerning veterans, particularly related to combat-related injuries and illnesses. If this is not currently supported, would it be possible to incorporate additional sites as resources? This would enable your app to search these sites for relevant keywords and include that information in the search results.

ievcPLUSMay 3, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

May 3, 2025

A: Hi ievc, yes. We cover medical journals including PubMed, Nature Medicine, Wiley's medicine journals, and others.

With the right search strategy, you'll certainly be able to research the topics you're interested in on Wonders.

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Q: Are you planning to integrate a pdf reading function such as chatpdf or paperpal in near future?

I am interested in your product. Do you have a plan to provide a PDF reading function, such as chatpdf or paperpal, in the near future?

please share a roadmap with us

NovumPLUSEdited Apr 26, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Apr 26, 2025

A: Hi PDF upload & reading has been our #1 request since launching this week. We'll be prioritizing this soon. Probably we'll have an early version in the coming 2-3 weeks.

Our full roadmap is here: roadmap.readwonders.com but I'm working on a condensed version & will send to all AppSumo buyers soon.

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Q: Follow-Up Questions About Teams and Individuals

Hi,

When the team uses collaborative workspaces and project boards, is it possible to add only the desired team members as needed, instead of having the entire team automatically included?
(I haven't purchased it yet; this is one of my evaluation criteria.)

Thank you.

bestpikaPLUSEdited Apr 27, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

Apr 27, 2025

A: Hi again bestpika, I have to say, I appreciate your thorough evaluation and questions. It's really helping us understand what we need to clarify in our listings and features.

About team members: Yes, you can invite specific people individually. But you do have the option to automatically include any folks who sign up with your domain.

Additionally, as an Owner or Admin you have full control over members. You can remove them at any point to free up their slot.

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Q: WonderAI vs Afforai

Is it comparable to Afforai previously on Appsumo? if so how ?

M.KhPLUSMay 2, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

May 2, 2025

A: Hi M.Kh, 👋 Good question! Afforai is a great tool for research, and definitely in the same category.

The key difference is that we really focus on the end-to-end workflow—bringing the key steps of the research process into a single view, with AI guidance along the way.

1) Single view for the entire research—We're still a very early stage company and product, but we're working very closely with our users—from students, doctoral supervisors, to professional researchers—to build the most efficient research workflow available. We believe that our unique workflow will enable users to finish a complete high-quality literature review in one view in just a couple of minutes.

2) Guided steps with AI—wonders guides you along the way, making suggestions for topics, keywords, search strategy that copies the steps of an experienced researcher. All the steps are transparent and completely controllable, which is not the case with their chatbot-based systems.

3) More sources—we search 500M+ sources from academic papers, to technical literature and patents.

4) Collaborate—all your projects can be shared with individuals or in teams, making it much easier to work with clients, supervisors, or research colleagues.

They've been around a bit longer, and built a great tool, but I'd say our approach is very unique and much more naturally aligned with how research works. I'm personally very excited for where we're headed & think it'll unlock a lot of value for many use-cases.

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Q: Are there some searches in Tier 1 that are

not counted against the 100 monthly AI searches and how do we know how many AI searches we have left?

LTDLover954PLUSMay 2, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

May 2, 2025

A: Hi, we're working on including the UI counter in dashboard, settings, and projects. This should be much clearer soon. For now, no need to worry. ;)

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Q: If we have an account on the free plan, can we still purchase this deal with that account?

mandikayeMay 1, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

May 1, 2025

A: Hi Mandi, yes, if you had just created a Starter account to try Wonders before committing, you can absolutely upgrade through AppSumo.

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Q: Citation issues and Boolean search

Hi!
I've noticed the citations are sometimes in DOI (without the domain?). Also when exporting it cites from: it gives numbers in the text (Vancouver style) but the reference list is in APA (or any other similar citation), so with author names only. Is this a bug or am I hallucinating more than an LLM?
When asking a question the AI will combine search terms automatically using 'OR', while in many search cases 'AND' would be a better fit (using PICO format). Any chance to add this as a default option?

Serena_CCPLUSApr 30, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

May 1, 2025

A: Hi Serena, thanks for reporting these citation inconsistencies. We'll work on a fix.

As for the BOOL search options—we're constantly listening to your feedback and working on the controls.

I'm mapping all your points in our feedback document and we'll work on improvements in the coming weeks.

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Q: The Company's Development History

Hi,

While researching this service, I found that it wasn't originally like what it is now.
This service originally seemed to be aimed at K-12.

However, on the website's about page, I could only find some brief introductions.

So I would like to ask you to talk about the development history of your company because I am quite interested in it.
If possible, I hope you can post an article in the founder's area to talk about this matter.

Thank you.

bestpikaPLUSApr 30, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

May 1, 2025

A: Hi bestpika, so fun you were exploring our early journey.

We started Wonders about 2 years back, and since explored several different markets and angles. Seeing how the educational market could benefit from AI technology, and building on our experiences in this space, we eventually arrived here. Wonders initially was an AI magazine aiming to popularize science, then we built an ed-tech focused tool for different markets (including a brief excursion into K-12), and then started focusing on higher-value use-cases in professional and higher-ed settings, building the product you're enjoying now.

There's a lot more on this path to discover and build—ultimately, this is about managing and making useful the world's most trustworthy knowledge... and supporting the creation of more of it.

It's a great idea to write a blog about our journey, I think we'll get to it at some point in the near future, alongside more active presence and published case-studies which we're preparing right now.

Hope that helps shed a bit of light on our history & thanks for the fun question!

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Q: I have a few questions about this tool

These are my questions:

1) Will this tool also work with uploaded documents? I need an AI tool to help me write literature reviews. So, I'm looking to upload PDFs of peer-reviewed papers that I've selected (at least 20 sources for each literature review topic). I need to work specifically with the papers I've selected, but Google Scholar is also an option in case I need to find additional sources.

2) Is this tool able to cite the sources where it got the information from, while also providing page numbers? My main concern with AI is that it tends to hallucinate, so I worry about the accuracy of the information. It would be too time-consuming for me to manually cross-check everything, so it's important that page numbers are provided for each piece of information (or at least some way that highlights exactly where the info came from).

Opal13241Apr 27, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Apr 27, 2025

A: Hi Opal, thanks for sharing your questions. In both cases this is something that's been heavily requested and we're working on it. We expect to have first updates on this in the coming weeks.

1) This is our #1 request. We'll be prioritizing PDF upload as the next feature.

2) As an academic myself, I recognize how important this is—and it is the fundamental reason why we're building Wonders. We're working on ways to precisely pinpoint where quotations come from. The ETA is probably similar to the PDF upload.

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Q: License Tier 1

Hello,

What is the functionality of 1 Collaborative workspace vs unlimited personal workspaces included in tier 1?

mwilliamsDCSApr 30, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Joe_Wonders

Apr 30, 2025

A: Hi, the differences are that personal workspaces cannot be shared, whereas collaborative ones can have other people join to create search projects and leave comments.

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Q: What Does Wonders AI Do for Searching Patents that Google Patent Search Does Not Do?

LTDLover954PLUSApr 30, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Apr 30, 2025

A: Hi again, fair totally question—Patent search is currently an early-stage feature. So it won't do much more than Google Patents. The main benefit right now is that you could have multiple such searches next to each other.

In the future we plan to support similar workflows like with academic literature—saving patents, highlighting, AI analysis... and more as we learn about the needs of IP professionals, IP buyers, and inventors.

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Q: Yours is an exciting and worthy project.

Hi,
your project is exciting, I am interested in TIER 4 Licenses, for now I am following your evolution.
You may know Andy Stapleton's YT channel, I discovered it a few months ago, after purchasing the Afforai Tier 3 plan here on APPSUMO, in this video he compares various search applications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIj366I-om8
How do you think you can stand out from your competitors?
Congratulations and good work.

mancinelligfPLUSEdited Apr 28, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Apr 29, 2025

A: Hi there, thanks so much for checking out Wonders and believing in our mission!

Oh, Andy's channel is gold! Thanks for sharing this comparison, I will comb through it in detail later.

Our main difference is our focus on empowering people of any research skill level to do a great research. We have a very unique workflow that breaks down the research process from question, through guided exploration, and synthesis.

So basically, we have a very different take on what tools like these should look like to balance AI support, transparency, and control.

What do you plan to use Wonders for? And how can we build the best tool for you?

All the best,
Joe

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Q: Can we access french papers ?

Thanks

contact357PLUSApr 28, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Apr 28, 2025

A: Hi, yes! French papers are accessible. We have published science from institutions and journals all over the world.

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Q: Do you have a video to show us how to utilise this tool best along with all its features and benefits?

What does it mean that "New users who sign up with these email domains will automatically join your company?" And is this part also unlimited for the top tier? Will the workspaces have folders too one day? How much longer before you add a French, German, Spanish, and Japanese available Dashboard? Members can edit but can clients comment (unlimited clients)? TY

P2PLUSApr 28, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Apr 28, 2025

A: Hi, we're working on a video walkthrough. Should be live tomorrow.

1. Joining company—there are two options:
a) Manually add each customer
b) Automatically add anyone joining with your company domain (like kim@acme.com if your company domain is acme.com). Yes, it is part.

2. We currently treat workspaces as sort of "folders", but may rethink this system in the future. How would you want to use these folders exactly?

3. I think we will be exploring the multiple-languages features in the next month.

4. We actually don't support public sharing yet, but we will have a feature where you can publish the research results. It could be possible to add comments. How exactly would you want to collaborate with clients?

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Q: Percentage behind a firewall

Within the 500M sources we can access, there will be a percentage that can only be accessed behind a paywall. What’s the percentage that are free and those that require payment to access and download?

sheldon.samfordPLUSApr 27, 2025
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Joe_Wonders

Apr 27, 2025

A: Hi Sheldon, about 30% of the scientific literature is currently OpenAccess. According to most organizations between 38-50% of recent research is published as OA (Scopus, Deltathink). This varies by country and domain, but in general the trend has been towards more OA every year.

Patents are all openly accessible.

This is a great resource for this question: https://open.coki.ac/

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