Changelog
What's new.
Features, improvements, and fixes shipped to Alfred Scholar.
October 2026
Tables, checklists and a copy button in Second Brain
Second Brain notes now keep their tables and checklists, the editor gains a formatting bar, and every Alfred answer can be copied in one tap.
Read moreEvery new account starts with 7 days of Pro
One trial for everyone, in India and everywhere else: 7 days of full Pro from the moment you sign up, with no card. When it ends, you keep everything.
Read moreSeptember 2026
Alfred, now your assistant across the workspace
Alfred now works beside you across Ask Alfred, Second Brain, Citations, My documents, and the editor. Pro now gets 500 messages a day and Lab 1,500.
Read moreAlfred finds new papers for your library
Ask Alfred for papers you do not have yet. He searches published literature and imports the open PDFs you choose, or saves the rest as citations.
Read moreMeet Alfred, in his mortarboard
The Ask Alfred pill is now Alfred himself, a small graduate in a mortarboard. Select him, or press Cmd+J, to open Alfred beside your work.
Read moreAugust 2026
Alfred as a reviewer on your manuscript
Mark a manuscript Final and add Alfred as a reviewer. It checks citations, claims, argument, method, and writing, and files findings for you to triage.
Read moreViva Prep: the questions your committee is likely to ask
Run Viva Prep on a draft and Alfred drafts the questions an examining committee would ask, answering each from your own sections, filed as a note.
Read moreTelescope columns that quietly failed now come through
A Telescope column that found its answer no longer settles as failed, and offline drafts recover on their own if the browser drops the connection.
Read moreAlfred Scholar is now sold worldwide
Pro and Lab can now be bought from anywhere, priced in US dollars outside India, where a 7-day trial starts without a card.
Read moreOne palette, every tool wearing its own color
The app now shares one refined palette with our website, each tool keeps one signature color, and the interface type is upgraded for long reading sessions.
Read moreThe Pro trial now costs ₹48
Three days of full Pro access for ₹48, which continues as Pro unless you cancel. The Founding Scholar lifetime edition is closed.
Read moreA clearer way around the site
Every page now shows what comes next, one name for the trial, and a trial button that follows you on mobile.
Read morePapers from other sources, right in your library search
Search your library and Alfred now looks across arXiv, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref and Shodhganga too, so you can save what is missing.
Read moreCampus, explained properly
A page for the part of Campus we never wrote down: your own deployment and database, sign-in rules you control, and cohort-scoped originality checks.
Read moreA clearer daily message allowance
Pro now includes 50 AI messages a day and Lab 150. The old limits were never stated accurately, and the limit message now tells you the truth.
Read moreJuly 2026
Originality checks now search the public web and report UGC levels
Checks now cover platform documents, open-access research, and the public web, and report the UGC 2018 level. Lab moves to 20 checks a month.
Read moreFigures that behave like figures
Paste an image straight into a manuscript, wrap text around it, caption it, and have it come out in the PDF.
Read moreSign in with Google
Get into your workspace with your Google account, with no password to invent and no verification email to wait for.
Read moreCitations you can click, and a calmer toolbar
Click any citation once to open its options, remove a reference without hunting for it, and find the writing tools where you expect them.
Read moreCampus: a plan for departments and universities
A new institutional tier for whole departments and universities, with custom seats, billing, and support. Contact us for tailored pricing.
Read moreA clearer pricing page
The pricing page now leads with what researchers say, groups Pro by what you actually do, and states the free trial and money-back guarantee up front.
Read moreLab is now a focused 5-person team
The Lab plan now seats a principal investigator and four researchers, five editing seats in all, with unlimited view-only peer reviewers unchanged.
Read moreUpdated pricing for Pro, Lab, and the lifetime edition
Pro is now ₹899/month and Lab is now ₹4,499/month, with a new price for the Founding Scholar lifetime edition. Annual billing still gets you 2 months free.
Read moreAsk Alfred to organize your notebook
Alfred can now create folders in your Second Brain and file notes into them. Ask it to tidy your notes by topic, all from a normal chat.
Read moreSecond Brain: Alfred keeps a research notebook for you
After your Ask Alfred conversations, the durable learnings are saved as notes you can browse, edit, and connect, and they inform future conversations.
Read moreThe homepage now walks the journey of a paper
The workspace tour now follows a paper from literature to submission, with Telescope and Loops in their proper place and real screenshots.
Read moreFounding Scholar, now available worldwide
The lifetime edition is open to scholars everywhere: $199 once, with PayPal and major cards accepted. In India, it remains Rs 14,999.
Read moreLoops: a weekly research digest that comes to you
Pick a few keywords and a time. Once a week, Alfred emails a digest of what is new on your topic in the last 7 days, saved in your workspace as an Insight.
Read moreA partner program for people who already recommend Alfred Scholar
If you've been telling your lab, your cohort, or your followers about Alfred Scholar, there's now a way to make that official. Write to us and we'll set you up.
Read moreManuscript check, without the scores
The AI-detection and writing-health panels are now one Manuscript check, with both scores gone. What is left is findings you can verify in your text.
Read moreRewrite keeps your citations, and your length
Rewrite now works on passages with citations, keeps them exactly as written, stops shortening your writing, and gives each alternative a distinct approach.
Read moreSpelling and grammar, checked as you write
Spelling and grammar now has its own panel and marks errors in your text. Corrections take one click, even for a repeated mistake, all in your browser.
Read moreCitations open beside your conversation
Chat citations now render reliably, open the source beside your conversation, and land on the cited page with the quoted passage highlighted.
Read moreThe Pro trial is now 3 days
New workspaces start with a 3-day Pro trial. Share an approved testimonial to add 7 more days of Pro.
Read moreTelescope, for every member
Compare a stack of papers side by side in one table. Telescope is now available to every scholar on a paid plan or trial.
Read moreA calmer way to sign in
The sign-in and account screens are now one quiet study: a theme-aware painting, gentler forms, and a warm greeting on the very first screen.
Read moreA faster front door, and smoother updates
Sign-in and registration now load in a fraction of the time. When we ship improvements, a single reload now brings you the latest version.
Read moreMove documents in and out of folders
Reorganize your library any time: move papers into a folder or back out to the root, one at a time or in bulk, by tapping or dragging.
Read moreBring your own key: more providers, every feature, your model
Connect Amazon Bedrock or OpenRouter, pick a specific model, and run every AI feature on your own key, not just chat.
Read moreSmarter AI for members
AI chat and Telescope now run on our most capable model, with sharper, more complete answers for every paid plan.
Read moreJune 2026
Bring your own AI key
On any paid plan, connect your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini key and run chat on it, with your message limits lifted.
Read moreFounding Scholar: a lifetime plan
Pay once and keep Alfred Scholar for the life of the product. A numbered edition limited to the first 100 scholars.
Read moreMath equations in the manuscript editor
Write inline and display equations right in your manuscript - type LaTeX or build them visually with a math keyboard.
Read moreShare a testimonial, earn a week of Pro
Rate Alfred Scholar and tell other researchers what changed for you. Approved testimonials appear on our site, and you get 7 days of Pro as a thank you.
Read morePro now includes one plagiarism check a month
The Pro plan's monthly originality checks have changed from 5 to 1. Lab still includes unlimited checks for anyone who needs more.
Read moreFinalized manuscripts stay locked, and reviews show only final papers
Marking a manuscript Final now makes it fully read-only until you switch it back to Draft, and Peer reviews lists only finalized papers ready for feedback.
Read moreFind your way with guided tours
The first time you open a page, a short guided tour shows what each area does and what to do next. Each tour shows once, and a "?" button replays it.
Read moreA clearer, more useful originality check
The Plagiarism check now highlights overlapping passages, can exclude quotes and references from the score, and exports a PDF report to share.
Read moreSync your Zotero and Mendeley library whenever you want
Your reference library now imports the moment you connect, and a Sync now button pulls the latest citations, PDFs, and annotations when you choose.
Read morePricing on the homepage, and a straight answer to "why not a chatbot?"
The homepage now shows real plan prices, contrasts page-cited answers with a general chatbot, and gives PhD candidates, professors, and labs a desk each.
Read moreA living homepage that shows its work
The homepage now demonstrates Alfred instead of describing it: a constellation of papers, citations traced to source, and a roadmap from this changelog.
Read moreA calmer, more polished way to scroll
Every page of the website now shares one gentle scroll motion and a thin reading-progress line, tuned for phones and respectful of reduced motion.
Read moreA much better experience on your phone
Every app page now works on mobile: bottom navigation, tappable card lists instead of cramped tables, compact headers, and settings you can swipe through.
Read moreOne look, from the front door to your desk
The warm, scholarly look of our website now carries through the whole product: workspace, settings, and Citation Constellation share one paper canvas.
Read more7-day trials replace the Free plan
Every workspace now starts with a 7-day Pro trial. The permanent Free plan has been removed, and Pro or Lab is required after the trial ends.
Read moreMay 2026
Rewrite with AI in the manuscript editor
Select any text and rewrite it in 5 tones (Humanize, Formal, Concise, Expand, Fix Grammar) with citations preserved.
Read moreUpdated pricing for Pro and Lab plans
Pro is now Rs 499/month and Lab is now Rs 2,499/month. Annual billing gets you 2 months free.
Read moreMendeley library sync
Connect your Mendeley account and import your references, PDFs, and annotations into Alfred Scholar.
Read moreApril 2026
Voice input for chat and manuscripts
Speak instead of type - use your microphone to ask questions in AI chat or dictate directly into the manuscript editor.
Read moreGift codes for sharing plans
Generate and redeem gift codes to give Pro or Lab access to collaborators, students, or partners.
Read moreSearch across manuscripts and performance improvements
Search your manuscripts, reviews, and plagiarism reports by title. Plus Gemini context caching and PDF viewer fixes.
Read moreZotero library sync
Connect your Zotero account and import your reference library into Alfred Scholar.
Read morePlan-based pricing replaces credits
Plan-based usage limits replaced credit counters, so researchers can focus on their work instead of counting tokens. This entry has since been superseded.
Read morePayments and subscription management
Subscribe to Pro or Lab, upgrade or downgrade plans, and track usage from billing settings.
Read morePeer review assignment and tracking
Assign manuscripts to reviewers, collect structured feedback, and track the review cycle.
Read moreSimilarity detection for manuscripts
Check your manuscripts for overlap against documents in your workspace before submitting.
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