# ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV

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.

Repository: https://github.com/ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/openscholarxiv
Language: Dart
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-08-29T17:13:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 87, longevity 54
- inputs: {"age_days": 760, "days_push": 4, "days_rel": 4, "gap_med": 56.5, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1180, forks 56 (observed 2026-09-01T02:13:57.849260+00:00)

## What it is
OpenScholarXIV is an open-source, AI-powered mobile app for searching, reading, bookmarking, sharing, and summarizing academic papers from arXiv. It includes AI chat for deep-diving into papers and text-to-speech for listening to summaries, using a user-supplied Gemini API key.

## Use cases
- search academic papers on arxiv
- read research papers on my phone
- get AI summaries of scientific papers
- chat with an AI about a paper's contents
- bookmark and download papers for offline reading
- listen to paper summaries read aloud

## When to choose
- you want a free, open-source mobile client for arXiv
- you need AI-assisted paper summaries and Q&A with your own Gemini key
- you prefer a minimal, Material You themed research reading app on Android

## When to avoid
- you need a desktop or web-based reference manager
- you require citation management or BibTeX export
- you don't want to supply your own Gemini API key for AI features

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, chatbot, rag, tts, pdf-viewer
- domain: education, artificial-intelligence, large-language-models
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: arxiv, academic-papers, research, flutter, gemini-api, material-you, open-access, natural-language-processing, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-01T02:13:57.849260+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:25:26.868323+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV (fetched 2026-09-01T02:13:57.849260+00:00, sha 0ce1f4caa2e0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.