AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TikTok but for scientific papers
Papel is a black-and-white research app for discovering papers, reading with on-device AI, and discussing work with other researchers.
TikTok but for scientific papers is a platform that presents academic research in short, scrollable format similar to social media. Launched in May 2026, it's designed for researchers, students, and science enthusiasts… 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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Paperguide▲645Discover, read, write and manage research with ease using AI
2024 · paperguide.ai · its alternatives →
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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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Hey - I've been playing with LLMs since GPT-2 and recently experimented with fully generative UIs where the HTML/Canvas are generated just-in-time. Every post on the feed( on slop/duck/storytime) you see is streamed and generated just-in-time with HTML and into a Canvas with Gemini 3 Flash. Comments and DMs are bidirectionally linked with a Cloudflare Workers Durable Object which is why they feel so fast. Every generated post is saved into a DO SQLite which is then served into the "Following" feed so it can be served quicker. This was inspired by Wikitok, a VSCode Extension I…
Jan 2026 · quack.sdan.io · its alternatives →
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The new storytelling format for work and important ideas
2022 · tome.app · its alternatives →
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Easily write well researched articles & academic papers
2024 · paperguide.ai · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone! I always found it hard to find new research papers outside of my usual bubble. I thought a random feed (with no recommendation algorithms) might be a fun way to explore. But I also didn’t want to waste time on completely unrelated stuff — so the idea of a fast, swipeable format came to mind. Wikitok was a real inspiration! But Arxiv and Open Review APIs weren’t as robust as Wikipedia, so I pulled the papers into a Postgres backend. Right now, I’ve indexed papers from a few recent ML conferences to see if this might be useful for others too. No signups required and it’s…
2025 · artok.app · its alternatives →
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2013 · penflip.com · its alternatives →
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Organize your research and notes beautifully ✨
2018 · weavatools.com · 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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Pennen▲122One quiet handwritten page a day. No feed, no AI.
Jul 2026 · pennen.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, WikTok is a UI for Wikipedia that lets you quickly swipe (or use your arrow keys) to navigate between random and recommended articles (based on the previous articles you interacted most with). It's just a fun project I hacked together this weekend, so may be a little rough around the edges, but I'd love to get your thoughts. Let me know if you have any suggestions (or find any interesting articles!) Cheers,
2023 · wiktok.org · its alternatives →
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Paper 4.0▲181Arrange sketches and notes in your online journal
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ArXivTok▲105I 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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