Wispar: Research Companion
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About this app
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
- 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
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
- 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
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What’s new
- Reworked the EZproxy logic, it should fix problems for many users
- The UI has been reworked to better accommodate tablets
- Adds a chat with PDF feature, allowing asking questions to AI about downloaded papers
- Improved PDF viewer experience
- Added options for custom AI temperature and translation prompts
- Allowed overriding the user agent for articles access
- Fixed a crash occurring when exporting large database
- Updated the app icon
- Translations update
- The UI has been reworked to better accommodate tablets
- Adds a chat with PDF feature, allowing asking questions to AI about downloaded papers
- Improved PDF viewer experience
- Added options for custom AI temperature and translation prompts
- Allowed overriding the user agent for articles access
- Fixed a crash occurring when exporting large database
- Updated the app icon
- Translations update
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About the developer
Francis Lapointe
wispar-app@protonmail.com
Canada
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