Research Tool Bench

Systematic Review Software Selector

Last updated 2026-08-16

Tell it your situation and it applies a fixed, published rule set. It also shows youwhy each tool was eliminated, which is the part most recommendation pages hide.

Performance is not yet measuredOur own screening-performance runs are not published yet, so this selector currently ranks onrequirement fit only. Every result shows evidence: NOT YET MEASURED. When the benchmark is published, measured performance appears alongside fit — and never merged into a single number. See the methodology.
Requirements

The rules, in full

Hard filters remove a tool outright: a zero budget removes paid-only tools; GUI-only comfort removes tools that require a local Python install; a PRISMA requirement removes plans without it; two or more reviewers removes plans whose free-reviewer allowance is too small.

Surviving tools are scored on a weighted sum:

FactorWeight
budget fit0.30
workflow features0.25
team size fit0.20
setup burden0.15
data portability0.10

affiliate availability, commission and revenue potential are excluded from every weight above. A free tool that fits your constraints best is shown first, and we earn nothing from that.

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