Wispar is your personal research companion — a privacy-friendly app for exploring academic journals and scientific articles.
Using the Crossref and OpenAlex APIs, Wispar helps you stay updated on your favourite journals. Follow journals to receive the latest research abstracts in your main feed — no account required.
- Search scholarly articles and journals
- Follow journals to stay updated
- Add custom keywords and queries to your feed
- Access open-access articles via Unpaywall
- Use EZproxy to unlock paywalled research
- Send articles to your Zotero library
- Built for researchers, students, and the academically curious
Wispar is user-friendly, open-source, and designed to respect your privacy.
As a community-built project, contributions are always welcome! If you'd like to contribute, please visit our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Scriptbash/Wispar
If the app isn't available in your language, please consider helping with translations by visiting our hosted Weblate instance: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/wispar
Data safety
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collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based
on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may
update it over time.
Whats New
- Downloads have been vastly improved! They should now work for all publishers!
- Title and abstract can be translated using AI (requires an API key)!
- Publication cards now have a swipe gestures, revealing two buttons: 1) Send to Zotero and 2) Hide this publication
- Translations update
