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Aftergleam - academic papers

A private reader for new research papers, ranked on your phone.
New in version 1.6.0
- Your reading, lately names real subjects, such as LoRA or world models, instead of everyday words
- The reasons on cards keep acronyms as papers write them, such as LoRA and NeRF, and no longer pair words across sentences
- Keywords show whether their alerts are on, and open with a tap to combine, change alerts or remove them, so a stray tap no longer deletes one
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, find any word in them, and keep them offline
* A reader view for arXiv papers, with text that fits your screen at the size you choose
* 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, and a serif font and text size of your choice 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.

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 1.6.0 (9) suggested Added on Oct 29, 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

    Download APK 1.9 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • New in version 1.5.0
    - Aftergleam is now on Google Play
    - Search finds phrases: papers that say your words together come first, and quotes work on the phone too
    - Results from bioRxiv, medRxiv and the other servers must contain every word, as arXiv's do
    - Watching a search keeps names together, such as attention mechanism, and separates ideas, such as cholesterol + hypoxia
    - Keywords with an apostrophe, such as Alzheimer's disease, now match
  • Version 1.5.0 (8) - Added on Oct 25, 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

    Download APK 1.9 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • New in version 1.3.0
    - Sort each library shelf by when you saved, downloaded or reacted, by newest paper, or by title
  • Version 1.3.0 (6) - Added on Oct 22, 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

    Download APK 1.9 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log