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24 alternatives to ElixirFeed

Hi HN, I’m building ElixirFeed, a small web app that helps people follow health and longevity research without having to read full scientific papers. The app: - pulls in new articles from PubMed - filters for topics like longevity, lifestyle, diet, exercise, and metabolic health - uses an LLM to generate short, plain-language summaries, actionable takeaways, translations - labels study types (RCT, review, preclinical) - adds simple, editorial-style visual explanations - lets users vote and discuss papers The goal is not to give medical advice, but to make it easier to understand what the…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Understanding scientific articles can be tough, even in your own field. Trying to comprehend articles from others? Good luck. Enter, Now I Get It! I made this app for curious people. Simply upload an article and after a few minutes you'll have an interactive web page showcasing the highlights. Generated pages are stored in the cloud and can be viewed from a gallery. Now I Get It! uses the best LLMs out there, which means the app will improve as AI improves. Free for now - it's capped at 20 articles per day so I don't burn cash. A few things I (and maybe you will) find interesting: * This is…

    Feb 2026 · nowigetit.us · its alternatives →

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    Zero▲445

    A simple app to track your fasting

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Personalized health coaching powered by your biomarkers

    Jun 2026 · peakroutinehealth.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT designed for health and wellness

    Jan 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy AI powered calorie and macro tracking over text

    2023 · lifecrosstraining.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn how to exercise efficiently for long lasting benefits

    2019 · thelongevityindex.com · its alternatives →

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    Zest 2.0▲124

    A science-backed app to help you live better for longer

    2023 · zest.science · its alternatives →

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    When I read papers, I have to jump between multiple tabs to find the dataset, code, videos, peer reviews, and so on. I tried to fix this with this project. It started as a project just for papers on arXiv, but after its initial success on Twitter (got like 1.9k views: the most I have gotten for a post), I have now expanded it to include other openly available papers from PubMed Central, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and eLife. These papers have been linked with their genes, proteins, diseases, drugs, clinical trials, 3D protein structures, code, and cited and similar papers. This project now has four…

    Jul 2026 · tomesphere.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy and social way to do intermittent fasting

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Zest▲167

    Extend your healthy lifespan

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11T8

    2017 · the8hour.diet · its alternatives →

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    OpenScholarXIV is an open-source, aesthetic, minimal and AI powered app that allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository. - ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fastpal▲100

    Simple to use intermittent fasting tracker

    2024 · fastpal.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! This has been my project for a few years now. I recently brought it back to life after taking a pause to focus on my studies. My goal with this project is to separate fluff from science when shopping for supplements. I am doing this in 3 steps: 1.) I index every supplement on the market (extract each ingredient, normalize by quantity) 2.) I index every research paper on supplementation (rank every claim by effect type and effect size) 3.) I link data between supplements and research papers Earlier last year, I took pause on a project because I've ran into a few issues: Legal: Shady…

    Jan 2026 · pillser.com · its alternatives →

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    ArXivTok▲105

    I made this, and it's fully open source so if someone wants to contribute here you have the url: https://github.com/Miguel07Alm/arxivtok. For this project I was inspired by https://wikitok.vercel.app.

    2025 · arxivtok.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Easily add AI generated health graphs to your app

    2023 · tryterra.co · its alternatives →

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    Take a photo and instantly determine if it's healthy or not

    2021 · testflight.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    So, I spend a ton of time on arXiv, like probably most of you. And while it's obviously amazing for keeping up with new papers, I always found the actual searching and browsing part a bit... clunky? Especially when you're trying to quickly figure out if a paper is even worth diving into. I got a bit fed up with it, so I ended up building this little web app called ArxivLens (https://arxivlens.com/). My main goal was to make it way quicker to skim papers and find what you're actually looking for. The big thing I added that I think is pretty useful is an AI overview feature.…

    2025 · arxivlens.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19IB

    Hi HN, I’ve built AskMedically – an AI-powered assistant that answers health and medical questions using real research papers from trusted medical sources like PubMed, Cochrane, etc. Whether you’re a healthcare enthusiast, patient, student, or professional – AskMedically helps you explore trusted medical knowledge without needing a medical degree or slogging through dozens of PDFs. Examples: • “Does intermittent fasting improve insulin sensitivity?” • “What are the benefits of creatine for brain health?” • “Is ashwagandha safe to take long-term?” • “How does ADHD present in adult women?” •…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Practical tools we can use to track and improve our biology

    2016 · thequantifiedbody.net · its alternatives →

  21. 21AF

    Hey HN! I've always found it hard to keep up with the latest AI research, so I built Arxiv Feed! https://arxiv-feed.vercel.app/ It's basically a feed of AI research papers + a one-liner explaining what problem its solving, etc. You can also click on any paper to get a TL;DR. Right now, I've only indexed a few hundred large language model papers, but will expand to indexing AI papers in other topics. Thinking of also adding a way for people to up-vote/down-vote papers. Would love to hear any thoughts/feedback! :D Thanks!

    2023 · arxiv-feed.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Science Discovery, Simplified. Swipe by Swipe.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23BA

    I'm 17 and recently launched a private beta for Biohack - a tool that scans food products and gives a longevity score based on impact on aging factors such as inflammation, omega ratio, toxins and more. Still early and a bit rough, but I'm looking for honest feedback from people who care about health span and deep nutrition. Would love your thoughts.

    2025 · getbiohack.app · its alternatives →

  24. 24AE

    Right now it's a Nicotine patch for brain rot/doom scrolling. You still get the scroll, but with more meaningful content. WHERE I WANT IT TO GO: Users mark what they are interested in (e.g. AI, or Space or Whatever), and it should crawl the latest scientific articles, high quality YouTube videos, pods, present it in a format that fits you, in a nice feed. NOW: You can search for anything (e.g. "Sea Explorers" --> The app crawls Wikipedia or YouTube and pulls together a short feed (e.g. Columbus, Vasco da Gama etc.,). I'm using RAG so that I always can reference the original data source…

    2025 · reelly.app · its alternatives →

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