Digital Protégé
Lux learns how you write — My Voice — and coaches in that voice, not a generic academic one.
Smarter academic writing in Word
xRead lives in Microsoft Word. When you run a feature, the text you are working with (a selection, a references section, or chat) is sent over HTTPS to xread.io so we can return citations, checks, summaries, and answers. An xRead seat, credits, or your own API key unlocks extra tools.
Subscribe and top up inside Word: My xRead → Plan. Card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay via Stripe.
See xRead in Word
A short onboarding tour of the task pane — citations, checks, and writing help beside the manuscript.
What you can do in xRead
A portfolio of tools in the Word task pane. Basic covers everyday writing help; a seat unlocks journal tools and custom workflows.
Show Citations
Highlight a passage and match in-text citations to the bibliography — fast, in the document.
Cross-Check
Catch orphans (cited but missing) and ghosts (listed but never cited).
Verify claims
Check whether the cited sources actually support what the sentence says.
Find Research
Related papers for the highlighted passage, from scholarly catalogs beside the manuscript.
Explain & Re-Write
Plain-language explanations and rewriting without leaving Word.
Lux chat
Ask, summarise, and work the paper with Lux — scoped to this document.
Journal Match & Advisor
Where this manuscript could go, then audit it against that journal’s author guidelines.
SeatChallenge Me
Adversarial review: literature that contradicts or qualifies your claim.
SeatCustom skills
Generate your own action buttons and workflows — then run them from Chat.
SeatxRead Basic
Free. Everyday citation and writing help in Word — quite a lot, without a seat.
- Digital Protégé / My Voice — Lux learns from your writing and coaches in that voice.
- Show Citations, Cross-Check, Verify claims — match in-text cites, catch orphans and ghosts, check that sources support the claim.
- Find Research — related papers from scholarly catalogs next to the passage you highlighted.
- Explain and Re-Write — plain-language help and rewriting in the document.
- Library and journal guidelines — save papers and target-journal author guidelines for Lux to use.
- Lux chat — ask, summarise, and work the manuscript without leaving Word.
Full xRead seat
Everything in Basic, plus the tools that shape a manuscript for a specific journal and a workflow you own.
- Custom skills and workflows — generate your own action buttons (seat only).
- Journal Match and Journal Advisor — where to submit, then audit the draft against that journal’s requirements.
- Challenge Me — adversarial review: literature that contradicts or qualifies your claim.
- Deeper Find Research — Google Scholar / web as last resort (seat only).
- Credits included — $5 each month, or $60 up front on annual, for those extra tools.