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24 alternatives to Librarian

Comment on any arXiv paper

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Librarian launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Librarian – Chrome Extension to get links to references in arXiv papers▲5

   A Chrome extension that enhances arXiv papers. Get direct links to references, BibTeX extraction and comments on all arXiv papers

   2017 · librarian.fermatslibrary.com · its alternatives →

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   Librarian - Semantic Bookmark Search Using Transformers▲95

   Search for your bookmarks by content! @ashwinlokkur and I built this Chrome extension that scrapes your bookmarks' content and does semantic search using transformer embeddings. Free and private since it's all in-browser. No LLM API calls ;)

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages▲721

   2017 · arxiv-vanity.com · its alternatives →

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   Papier▲641

   Open a new tab and trap your best thoughts.

   2016 · getpapier.com · its alternatives →

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   ScholArxiv – an open-source, aesthetic, minimal research paper explorer▲147

   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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   dewey.▲288

   Get the most out of your Twitter bookmarks

   2021 · getdewey.co · its alternatives →

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   I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers▲324

   As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for. I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4]. To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric. I would…

   2024 · papermatch.mitanshu.tech · its alternatives →

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   Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL▲194

   Hello HN, Talk2Arxiv is a small open-source RAG application I've been building for a few weeks. To use it just prepend any arxiv.org link with 'talk2' to load the paper into a responsive RAG chat application (e.g. www.arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 -> www.talk2arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762). All implementation details are in the GitHub. Currently, because I've opted to extract text from the PDF of the paper rather than reading the LaTeX source code (since I wanted to build a more generic PDF RAG in the process), it struggles with symbolic text / mathematics, and sometimes fails…

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Read ArXiv Papers on Semantic Scholar as Responsive HTML Documents▲40

   2018 · semanticscholar.org · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Reddit librarian▲180

    The smartest way to organize your saved Reddit posts.

    2025 · reddit-librarian.web.app · its alternatives →

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    Bibcitation for Chrome▲78

    Cite websites and articles in one click

    2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL▲227

    An extension for Firefox and Chrome to add comments to any URL - comntr/webext

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Academus▲67

    Read research papers as interactive webpages

    2021 · academ.us · its alternatives →

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    Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again▲127

    Academic webpage of Anders Damsgaard

    2019 · adamsgaard.dk · its alternatives →

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    Mentionitis▲98

    Read better, research better, browse better

    2023 · mentionitis.com · its alternatives →

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    Totallib▲226

    Note-taking for better thinking, augmented by AI.

    2021 · totallib.com · its alternatives →

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    ArXivist, search and store papers from a command line▲32

    Command line interface for managing papers from arXiv on a local machine. - njhofmann/arXivist

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Asxiv.org – Ask ArXiv papers questions through chat▲161

    I built this yesterday to help understand papers I'm interested in. It's using the gemini 2.5 flash lite model, but you can run it yourself[1] and switch to 2.5 pro for better results. Happy to answer any questions or take suggestions on how I can improve it! 1. https://github.com/montanaflynn/asxiv

    2025 · asxiv.org · its alternatives →

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    Arvin 2.0▲123

    Your AI-powered writing and reading companion

    2023 · arvin.chat · its alternatives →

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    Bulletpapers – ArXiv AI paper summarizer, won Anthropic Hackathon▲178

    2023 · bulletpapers.ai · its alternatives →

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    Citationsy for Mac▲125

    Create citations, reference lists, & bibliographies on OS X

    2018 · citationsy.com · its alternatives →

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    Citation Saver▲92

    Link directly back to content you highlight on a page.

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Citationsy for Chrome▲169

    Cite anything in one-click right from Chrome

    2019 · citationsy.com · its alternatives →

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    LitReview-Me▲88

    Automated literature reviews using ArXiv

    2023 · its alternatives →

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