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24 alternatives to Science Papers Simplified
Hi HN, Even though I do science, I struggle to understand papers in adjacent fields. So I built thetrecs.com to aggregate and serve simplified summaries of the newest papers in Cell/Nature/Science. By scrolling through thetrecs I've made new science more accessible to myself, and maybe to you too. Any feedback is of course welcome.
Science Papers Simplified aggregates and displays simplified summaries of recent papers from Cell, Nature, and Science journals. The tool is designed for scientists who need to stay informed about research in adjacent… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Science Papers Simplified launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Paperguide▲645Discover, read, write and manage research with ease using AI
2024 · paperguide.ai · its alternatives →
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2014 · usefulscience.org · its alternatives →
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heyo! Explainpaper lets you upload a research paper PDF. If you don't understand a formula or sentence, just highlight it and the tool explains it for you I built this a few weeks ago to help me read a neuroscience paper, and it works pretty well! I didn't fine-tune GPT-3, but I do take a lot of context from the paper and feed that into the prompt (not the whole paper). Ppl have uploaded AI, biology, economics, philosophy papers and even law documents. Works in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French and more as well!
2022 · explainpaper.com · its alternatives →
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Open Paper▲289Hi HN! Open Paper allows you to annotate and understand your research papers with an AI copilot. I wanted a paper-reading assistant that let met actually dig into papers in-place while benefiting from AI tooling. When it comes to studying, I'm not a fan of the typical chat interfaces that obfuscate uploaded files and turn them into black box 'content'. Hence, I've implemented a split-pane view. To mitigate the risk of hallucinations, all AI responses come with grounded citations that refer back to the source material in-flow. Some feature highlights: - Actually read your papers in one place…
2025 · openpaper.ai · its alternatives →
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2013 · egocodedinsol.github.io · its alternatives →
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Studies.Show▲206140 character summaries of interesting research papers.
2015 · studiesshow.app · its alternatives →
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A new type of science journal. Funded by you!
2015 · experiment.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · tldr-ai.org · its alternatives →
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2024 · simplescience.ai · its alternatives →
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Collaborate around what you find online on the Web or PDFs
2023 · 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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2021 · papertime.app · its alternatives →
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Bullets.news▲151Articles for science lovers shortened to five bullet points.
2019 · its alternatives →
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2019 · bullets.tech · its alternatives →
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PaperClip▲98Memorize details from papers in machine learning and AI
2023 · paperclipapp.xyz · its alternatives →
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Summarize research papers and ask questions with AI
2023 · summarizepaper.com · its alternatives →
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A repository of academic computer science papers
2015 · paperswelove.org · its alternatives →
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http://paperkast.com Hello everybody, I just wanted to share a link aggregator website: paperkast.com. It's a article sharing and discussion hub. It's opened recently. I think it was a need for the academia. I don't think there is an online community for paper discussion. Twitter is good for publication sharing but there is no central discussion around a paper. It's all over the place. Seperately, we know that the link aggregation style has a good reputation. It's a good stimulation for discussion. What do you think of it?
2018 · its alternatives →
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SciFlow▲71Write, improve and format your scientific documents
2019 · sciflow.net · its alternatives →
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