Wispar
Stay up-to-date with academic journals and the latest research articles!
Francis Lapointe AI Chat Reading Science & Education
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Description
Wispar is your personal research companion — a privacy-friendly app for exploring academic journals and scientific articles.
Using the Crossref and OpenAlex APIs, Wispar helps you stay updated on your favourite journals. Follow journals to receive the latest research abstracts in your main feed — no account required.
- Search scholarly articles and journals
- Follow journals to stay updated
- Add custom keywords and queries to your feed
- Access open-access articles via Unpaywall
- Use EZproxy to unlock paywalled research
- Chat with AI about your downloaded papers
- Send articles to your Zotero library
- View graphical abstracts
- Translate abstracts to your preferred language
- Built for researchers, students, and the academically curious
Wispar is user-friendly, open-source, and designed to respect your privacy.
As a community-built project, contributions are always welcome! If you'd like to contribute, please visit our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Scriptbash/Wispar
If the app isn't available in your language, please consider helping with translations by visiting our hosted Weblate instance: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/wispar
Anti-features
Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.
- NonFreeNet
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
- NotificationsShow notifications.
- VibrationControl the vibration alert.
- Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
- Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
- Exact alarmsTrigger actions at a precise time.
- wispar.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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