Sources · analysis · writing · AI that shows its evidence
CurTask brings your sources, analysis and writing into one research workspace. The AI reads, sorts and extracts, always with the page and quote behind it. You check, decide and write, so your skills grow with every project. Made for your literature review.
Free plan with 250 AI credits a month. No card needed.
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From your first paper to your own written argument, with every claim tied to its source.
Why we built it this way
Handing your thinking to AI feels efficient, but it has a cost. When AI summarises every paper and writes every paragraph, the reading, judging and arguing that make a researcher never happen. This is called cognitive offloading, and educators, supervisors and universities are right to worry about it.
A thesis or article is meant to show what you can think. If AI did the thinking, it isn't really yours, and you'll feel it the moment someone asks you to defend it.
CurTask is built the other way round. The AI takes the slow, mechanical parts of research. The parts that make you a researcher stay with you.
| Research step | CurTask's AI does | You do |
|---|---|---|
| Gathering sources | Imports papers, skips duplicates, reads scanned pages | Choose what belongs in your study |
| Reading | Pulls out sample, method and findings, with page and quote | Check the evidence and decide what matters |
| Analysing | Suggests codes and themes across your papers | Accept, change or reject them, and build the themes |
| Arguing | Shows which papers agree, contradict or extend each other | Make the argument and take a position |
| Writing | Flags uncited sentences, checks if a citation fits, formats references | Write every sentence |
| Defending | Keeps every claim linked to its source | Explain and defend your work |
Nothing the AI suggests counts until you accept it. Everything it says shows where it came from.
Today: sources, literature analysis, qualitative coding and writing. Next: analysing your own qualitative and quantitative data.
Built by a UPSI senior lecturer for the research he does and the students he teaches.
Turn a folder of PDFs into a matrix, themes and a cited chapter.
Analyse a paper once and reuse it in every project and manuscript.
Stop juggling five tools. CurTask brings them into one workspace:
Library, Analysis and Writing all use the same papers, so you never lose your place when you switch.
Drop in PDFs or Word files. CurTask skips duplicates, fills in the details from the DOI, reads scanned pages and compresses PDFs without losing a word of their text.
Ask in plain words, get a full column. Describe what you want (for example “sample size and country”) and the AI fills it for every paper, each value with its quote and page.
Write in sections you can reorder, with your sources beside the draft. Drag a passage in and it arrives as a quote with its citation, still linked to its page.
Reuse across projects
A paper is processed once and recognised by its content, not its file name. Add it to a second project and it arrives with its text, summaries, tags and analyses already attached: no re-reading, no second bill.
Browser extension
Coming soon to Chrome, Edge and Brave: the free Save to CurTask extension puts the paper you're reading in your library (details, PDF, projects, tags and a note) and tells you when there's no PDF to save.
For students
Sign up with your university email, confirm that you're enrolled, and get faster AI and more credits at a student price.
Student status lasts 12 months; we check once a year.
Use the address your university gave you; it becomes your sign-in email. No card needed to check.
Analyse your papers, fill your matrix and code your sources with more credits every month.
If you go back to the free plan, your papers, notes and writing stay where they are.
Said plainly, because "we take privacy seriously" isn't an answer. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
Download everything in one file whenever you like: your papers, notes, codes, matrices and writing, in open formats. Backups are encrypted.
Your text goes to an AI service only when you use an AI feature, only the parts that feature needs, and it is never used to train AI. Each service, and the country it is in, is named on our list.
Only you can see your library, notes, codes and writing. Duplicate checks never look across accounts.
Your papers and writing are never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's.
Keep what works. CurTask reads your own PDFs, fills a literature matrix with the page and quote behind every value, and lets you code and write in the same project.
CurTask is a research workspace where AI does the legwork and you do the thinking. It brings a reference manager, a literature matrix, qualitative coding and a writing tool into one place, with AI that shows the page and quote behind every value and leaves the decisions and the writing to you.
Yes, you can start free with no card. The free plan includes 250 AI credits a month to analyse papers and fill your matrix, and you code your papers by hand. The Student and Researcher plans add faster AI, more credits (1,000 and 2,500 a month) and AI that suggests codes across all your papers for you to accept or dismiss.
Every value the AI fills in comes with the page number and the exact quote it came from, checked against your PDF. If no source is found, CurTask says so instead of guessing. AI text stays marked as suggested until you accept it.
Soon. A free Save to CurTask extension for Chrome, Edge and Brave is on its way: it will save the paper you're reading (its details, the PDF your own access lets you open, projects, tags and a note) in one click. To hear when it's ready, create a free account and tick "Send me product news by email". Until then, drag PDFs into CurTask or search for papers in the app.
Your papers, their text, your notes and your writing are kept on our servers in Malaysia, and so are the backups. Only you can see them, and you can download all of it at any time.
No. Your papers and writing are never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's.
Eight styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE. Your thesis chapters or article compile to Word (DOCX), PDF, Markdown or HTML.
Yes. The screens are in English and Bahasa Melayu, and each project has its own AI language. Quotes always stay in the language of the paper.
Start on the free plan with no card: analyse papers, fill your matrix and code by hand. Pay only when you want the faster AI, more credits and AI that suggests codes across all your papers.
Free to start. Student and Researcher plans from RM 25 a month.