Wispar: Research Companion

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About this app

Wispar is your personal research companion β€” 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 β€” 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
Updated on
Oct 17, 2025

Data safety

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What’s new

- Graphical abstracts can now be scraped and displayed
- Adds customizable swipe gestures and options to display or not specific information on the publication cards
- Adds an optional paper count in feed(s)
- Improves the PDF download button to work with Elsevier and Wiley platforms
- Adds an Unpaywall prompt to let users decide to open the paper via Unpaywall or go to the website
- Allow storing the database files outside the app container (experimental)