August 6th, 2024

ScholArxiv – an open-source aesthetic and minimal research paper explorer

ScholArxiv is an open-source app on GitHub for searching, reading, and bookmarking academic papers from arXiv, featuring offline access, summaries, and community contributions under the GNU General Public License.

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ScholArxiv – an open-source aesthetic and minimal research paper explorer

ScholArxiv is an open-source application available on GitHub that enables users to search, read, bookmark, share, download, and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository. Key features include the ability to read full papers, save favorites with bookmarks, access brief summaries (which can be listened to), and search for papers using various criteria such as keywords, titles, authors, and abstracts. The app also suggests popular papers if no keywords are entered. Users can download papers for offline access and share links to documents. The application relies on several dependencies, including dio for HTTP requests, xml2json for data conversion, and permission_handler for managing permissions. Contributions to the project are encouraged, with options to fork the repository, star it, or share it with others. The project is licensed under the GNU General Public License, ensuring that it remains open source. Acknowledgments are given to arXiv for its open access interoperability. For further details or to download the app, users can visit the releases page on GitHub.

- ScholArxiv allows users to read, bookmark, and summarize academic papers from arXiv.

- The app supports searching for papers by various criteria and suggests popular papers.

- It is open-source and encourages community contributions.

- The project is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

- Users can download the app from the GitHub releases page.

AI: What people are saying
The comments on the ScholArxiv app highlight user feedback and suggestions for improvement.
  • Users express interest in features like full-screen summaries, subject-based browsing, and audio playback controls.
  • There are requests for additional functionalities, such as importing papers from DOI links and posting the app on F-Droid.
  • Some users appreciate the app's design and functionality, noting it makes exploring research papers enjoyable.
  • Suggestions include adding visual content, like images or videos, to better showcase the app's features.
  • Overall, the community is engaged and supportive, providing constructive feedback for future enhancements.
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By @dartharva - 5 months
Some feedback:

1. It will be a lot better if the Summary popup can be stretched to full-screen with font size controls.

2. There needs to be a feature to browse papers based on subjects and other applicable categories.

3. There need to be playback controls (pause, rewind, etc.) for audio narration of the summaries.

4. Themes customization and dark mode will also be great features to have.

By @dagmawibabi - 5 months
ScholArxiv is an open-source aesthetic and minimal app that allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository that you can download now.

Features

Read Papers: Read entire papers in detail within the app.

Bookmarks: Save your favorite papers for quick access.

Summaries: View and listen to brief paper summaries.

Search Papers: Search for papers using keywords, titles, authors and abstract. If no keyword is provided the app suggests random popular papers.

Download and Share Papers: Download papers for offline reading or you can share document links to others.

By @bulibuta - 5 months
Great app, if it is not too much trouble would you please consider posting it on f-droid as well?
By @michaelbrave - 5 months
You know what else might be cool is a "see related" feature, whenever a paper references another, create a link between them and create an almost recomendation engine based on that. Ideally, you could then look at a kind of discoverability family tree of how the paper's evolved.

This is likely hard to implement and only wishful thinking, but I think it would be neat.

By @bbor - 5 months
A) cool app, well executed!

B) this has further radicalized me into pure web development. What native features does this take advantage of that couldn’t be accomplished just as easily in typescript? I don’t have an android :(

By @AshenafiGo - 5 months
Nice! ScholArxiv is gonna make exploring research papers fun.
By @toomuchtodo - 5 months
Could you supporting importing any paper from doi.org links? Like a mobile Zotero.
By @zyx_db - 5 months
one suggestion i have is to add a few images or a short video of you using the app. personally i dont usually download apps to just try them out, without at least having some idea of what to expect
By @server_man3000 - 5 months
How do you get paid articles?
By @abela12 - 5 months
Cool project—keep it up!