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Aftergleam - academic papers

A private reader for new research papers, ranked on your phone.
New in version 1.0.0
First public release.

- A short daily digest of new papers, ranked on your phone from how you react
- Papers from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EdArXiv, Law Archive and ChemRxiv
- Explore, Popular, search, and a library with offline PDFs
- Import a BibTeX or RIS library; export and restore your reading history
- No account, no ads, no tracking
Hundreds of new research papers appear every day. Aftergleam reads them and shows you the few worth your time.

It learns what you like from how you react to papers. The model is trained on your phone. There is no account, no server of our own, no analytics and no ads.

Sources
* arXiv: physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics and more
* bioRxiv and medRxiv: biology and medicine
* PsyArXiv, SocArXiv and EdArXiv: psychology, social science and education
* Law Archive: law
* ChemRxiv: chemistry

Only the servers your subjects need are contacted.

Features
* A short daily digest, ranked for you
* Explore, for papers just outside your usual reading
* Popular, for what other people are reading
* Each paper says why it was picked
* Read PDFs in the app and keep them offline
* Save papers, search, and import a BibTeX or RIS library from Zotero
* Export and restore your reading history as a plain file
* Light and dark themes, with an optional serif font for papers

Privacy
Your reading history and the model stay on your device. To fetch papers, the app has to ask the preprint servers for them, so those servers see the requests it makes. The privacy policy lists exactly what is sent.

Aftergleam is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
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Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 1.0.0 (2) suggested Added on Oct 02, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • si.jakobkreft.aftergleam.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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