The few papers worth your time
Aftergleam ranks the day’s new preprints by what you read and shows you the few worth opening, each with the reason it was picked. Everything runs on your phone, without an account.
Free and open source. Android 8.0 or newer. Also available as an APK from GitHub.
Hundreds of new papers, sorted for you
arXiv announces hundreds of new papers every weekday, and bioRxiv, medRxiv and the other preprint servers add more.
Aftergleam reads them for you. It learns from what you open, save and read, and each morning puts the papers you are most likely to want at the top.
Papers come from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EdArXiv, Law Archive and ChemRxiv. Only the servers your subjects need are contacted.
Getting started
The digest
Each card shows why the paper was picked, its title and the opening of its abstract. Tap a card for the full abstract and the PDF.
- Reason for the pick
- Title and abstract
- Fewer like this, more like this, save
The reason names the keyword a paper mentions, the words it shares with a paper you kept, or its category until there is enough to compare. Opening and reading papers counts as well, so the buttons are optional. How the ranking works
Other features
- Keywords
- Add names such as U-Net or C. elegans. Papers that mention them come first, from any field, and can send a notification.
- Reader view
- arXiv papers can be read as text that fits the screen, at the size you choose, in light or dark.
- Offline reading
- PDFs open in the app, with find in paper, and stay available without a connection.
- Search
- Searches your phone first, then every preprint server online, with results reordered by your interests.
- Library import
- Import a BibTeX or RIS file, for example from Zotero. Matched papers count as ones you liked.
- Explore and Popular
- Papers that ranked just below your digest, and the most upvoted papers on Hugging Face daily papers.
Privacy
Aftergleam has no account, no analytics, no advertising and no server of its own. Your reactions, your reading history and the ranking model are stored only on your phone.
Fetching papers means sending requests to the preprint servers. arXiv receives the categories you follow and the titles of any library you import. Online searches and any keywords you add go to arXiv and to Crossref. bioRxiv, medRxiv and OSF are asked only for papers from a range of dates. Downloading a PDF sends its identifier to the server that hosts it. The privacy policy lists exactly what each server receives.
Questions
Where can I get it?
On Google Play and F-Droid, and as an APK from GitHub releases.
Is it free?
Yes. There are no ads, subscriptions or in-app purchases. Aftergleam is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and the source code is on GitHub. If you find it useful, you can support its development on Ko-fi.
Which fields does it cover?
114 subjects in 14 fields, from physics and computer science to medicine, psychology, education, law and chemistry. The full list is on How it works.
How is it different from arXiv’s email alerts?
arXiv’s mailing list sends every new paper in the categories you choose, often hundreds a day. Aftergleam ranks them by your interests, shows why each was picked, learns from what you read, and covers seven further servers.
Is there an iPhone version?
No. Aftergleam is available for Android 8.0 and newer.
Get Aftergleam
Free and open source under the GPL. Install it from Google Play or F-Droid, or download the APK from GitHub.