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24 alternatives to Manage research papers from your CLI

I built this because I started reading a lot of arXiv papers and wanted a quick way to store and download them. Features: - Add a bunch of arXiv papers to Notion with auto-populated title/URL/date/authors in one command - Download PDFs of any papers you haven't saved yet in one command

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Manage research papers from your CLI launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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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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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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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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An interactive CLI ArXiv explorer▲21
CLI tool for exploring arXiv (inspired by karpathy's brilliant ArXiv Sanity Preserver) - knguyenanhoa/cli-arxiv
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive research papers (a big step up from ArXiv HTML)▲9
I’ve been frustrated with PDFs and found arXiv HTML lacking, so I built a fully interactive paper reader. Features: • Hover references, citations, equations • Light/dark mode • Auto-generated dependency graphs for definitions/lemmas/theorems • Table of contents that syncs with scroll • Highlighting + annotations • “Copy raw LaTeX” anywhere Featured paper: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners (Veo 3) https://www.sciencestack.ai/arxiv/2509.20328v2
Nov 2025 · sciencestack.ai · its alternatives →
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Read ArXiv Papers on Semantic Scholar as Responsive HTML Documents▲40
2018 · semanticscholar.org · its alternatives →
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ArXiv Feed – An easy way to keep up with AI research▲32
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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Pocket to Notion▲174
Seamlessly migrate and backup your Pocket articles to Notion
2025 · pocket2notion.chatgpt2notion.com · its alternatives →
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PaperClip▲98
Memorize details from papers in machine learning and AI
2023 · paperclipapp.xyz · 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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Turn Any ArXiv Paper into a 200-Page Prerequisite Reading Book▲6
I created this tool over the weekend because, as someone interested in AI and technology, I find many research papers on arXiv fascinating but often incredibly dense and difficult to understand due to the heavy jargon and technical language. I wanted to make these complex topics more accessible to laypeople like myself by converting the topics described in these papers into full-length books that break down key concepts, making cutting-edge research easier to grasp. You can think of it as generating prerequisite reading materials before being able to read the actual paper. Here are some…
2024 · instabooks.ai · its alternatives →
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Elephant Folio▲69
The PDF Library that automatically organizes itself
Apr 2026 · beroea.tech · its alternatives →
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Arxivlens – Save Hours Researching Scientific Literature on ArXiv▲13
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 →
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Academus▲67
Read research papers as interactive webpages
2021 · academ.us · its alternatives →
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paperswithname▲6
Downloading arxiv papers with title as a filename
2021 · its alternatives →
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arXiv Paper Visualizer▲15
See the idea development of academic papers visually.
2025 · its alternatives →
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Grab a Random ArXiv Paper▲13
I needed a way to grab a random paper from arXiv, so I built one and wanted to share it with you. It 1) picks a random topic (of all the cs., econ., math.* etc. topics) 2) finds the maximum amount of papers in that topic, and 3) queries for a random paper in that topic. Note that this skews the distribution heavily in favor of topics that are less common, but it should get the job done. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
2025 · jepedersen.dk · its alternatives →
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ArXiv-txt, LLM-friendly ArXiv papers▲22
Just change arxiv.org to arxiv-txt.org in the URL to get the paper info in markdown Example: Original URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 Change to: https://arxiv-txt.org/abs/1706.03762 To fetch the raw text directly, use https://arxiv-txt.org/raw/abs/1706.03762, this will be particularly useful for APIs and agents
2025 · arxiv-txt.org · its alternatives →
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SmartXiv: AI-Powered ArXiv Digest with Personalized Recommendations▲6
As a researcher, I created SmartXiv to solve a problem I faced every day: keeping up with the overwhelming number of research papers uploaded to arXiv. With over 1000 new papers each day, finding the most relevant research was time-consuming and exhausting. I needed a smarter way to stay updated. What SmartXiv Does • Personalized Recommendations: Using advanced AI, SmartXiv analyzes your interests and sends you daily emails with research papers that align with your preferences. •Efficient Research: By curating the latest papers for you, SmartXiv saves you hours of research. • Fully…
2024 · smartxiv.com · its alternatives →
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ArXiv Utilities▲2
Meaningful titles for tabs and PDF downloads!
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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arXiv-news▲11
Hey HN! I built arXiv News (https://arxiv-news.com) – a discussion space for research papers. The problem: I browse arXiv constantly for new papers, but there's nowhere good to discuss them. Twitter is chaotic, Reddit is fragmented, and arXiv itself has no comments. So I cloned HN's design (using https://github.com/clintonwoo/hackernews-react-graphql) and applied it to arXiv. Upvote papers, comment, sort by hot/new/discussed, filter by category, post ideas/papers you've found. A daily scraper pulls all new papers automatically. I'd love to hear…
2025 · arxiv-news.com · its alternatives →
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Last year I asked HN to do it, now I am doing it myself-JournalClub iPad▲13
Almost one year ago I asked HN if anybody is interested to make a Web app to make reading and finding scientific papers smarter [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1664648]. No one did, at least no one did what "I" think is the best way to approach this problem. A a few month ago I decided to do it myself.<p>Meet JournalClub iPad app (absolutely free), http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journalclub/id443819334? I have a recommendation engine in the pipeline that I would introduce in the next update (hopefully in a month or so). I really appreciate any comments, feedbacks.
2011 · its alternatives →

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