Open Paper gives you a single place to read, annotate, and understand papers with the help of AI. Each AI response is grounded in citations, giving you info you can actually trust. We're building the fastest way to understand research.
Hello researchers! 👋🏽 I was reading AI papers regularly to stay current with the latest research on LLM safety and capabilities while building khoj.dev, but I realized that existing tools weren't meeting my needs.
I wanted to actually read papers -- not just upload them into a black box for clarification, and risk wasted time building on hallucinations. Plus, I needed AI assistance that worked seamlessly as I wove between annotating and understanding the paper, minimizing context shifts.
That's how Open Paper was born! Our platform helps researchers like you manage your workflow by indexing papers, storing annotations, and providing in-place assistance. This lets you focus on what matters most: your own research & hypothesis refinement. Researchers across policy, AI, economics, and health sciences are already using Open Paper to streamline their work! :)
Who should try it:
Industry Researchers & Scientists: Translate academic research into practical applications. Track state-of-the-art developments in your field and evaluate competitive research landscapes while building an innovative strategy.
PhD Students: Simplify your processes while reading over several domain-specific papers every week. Keep track of key insights across hundreds of papers and maintain comprehensive notes that connect ideas across different studies.
Clinical Researchers & Physicians: Stay current with medical literature while managing patient care or clinical trials. Track treatment efficacy studies, monitor safety data across multiple publications, and maintain organized evidence bases for clinical decision-making and protocol development
Policy Researchers: Aggregate research across disciplines to inform policy recommendations. Quickly digest findings from academic studies, and maintain comprehensive evidence bases for policy briefs and reports.
What it does for you:
Source-verified AI responses: Get reliable answers with embedded citations that let you instantly verify claims and dive deeper into the original research - no more hallucinated information
Executive summaries: Transform dense research papers into clear, actionable insights with plain-English summaries that highlight key findings, methodologies, and implications
Unified research workspace: Centralize your entire research workflow - store highlights, annotations, and personal notes for each paper with instant retrieval across your entire knowledge base
Intelligent search & discovery: Find relevant papers and specific insights across thousands of documents using search across Open Access publications.
Audio research briefings: Stay up-to-date with hands-free listening during commutes or breaks - get contextual summaries of new papers in your field delivered as personalized audio briefings
Special offer: We're in open beta throughout June, and we've decided to make all the features completely free until July 1! In return, I'm requesting detailed, critical feedback to help shape our roadmap :)
As @debanjum and I explored the future of research, we realized the potential impact extends far beyond individual paper reading. We're at an inflection point where research agents can dramatically accelerate how researchers discover, process, and communicate new information. You can read our full vision in our manifesto.
i spend more time organizing research than actually engaging with it. This finally gives me a workspace that’s built around how I work, not just another place to upload PDFs.
As someone doing literature reviews right now, this couldn’t have shown up at a better time. I’ve been trying to find a better way to keep track of what I’m reading and how it connects to my thesis.
love how I can stay in one place while taking notes and checking summaries. I usually bounce between PDF viewers, notes apps, and ChatGPT—it’s been a mess for me.
I read a ton of dense papers for school, and honestly I’ve lost count of how many times I had to reread the same paragraph. This looks like it might actually help me move faster without missing the point.
Just gave it a spin with a paper I struggled with last week. I wasn’t expecting the AI to handle the citations that well. I felt more confident cross-checking what it gave me.
What stands out to me is how it respects the research process instead of trying to shortcut it. I still do the thinking, it just supports me in the right moments
I’m currently diving deep into AI Agents and need to go through a lot of papers. My main pain points are:
Quickly collecting relevant papers and getting summaries.
Being able to chat with an AI to help me better understand the papers.
Having one place to manage all the papers I’m reading.
Your product has been helpful to me, but I’d like to offer a small suggestion:
Could you add a filter or sorting feature to the paper collection page? For example, I’d like to focus on the latest papers, but currently, the product shows them randomly. Maybe you could also add a “marked as read” option so I can easily filter out the papers I’ve already read.
There’s something really meaningful about making research more accessible and open. Open Paper 2 feels like a step in the right direction—simple, clean, and empowering for anyone who wants to dive deeper. Big congrats to the team for building something that matters
Where was this when I was drowning in research papers? 😭 Love the citation-backed AI and audio briefings - exactly what researchers need. Future students won't know how good they have it! (Also, open-source? Wonderful!)
The built in citations with AI answers really add to the confidence. No guessing where the info came from.
Open Paper sounds like a game-changer for researchers juggling multiple papers and disciplines! I love that it emphasizes source-verified AI responses and seamless annotation—a real win for clarity and efficiency. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves. Kudos to you and @debanjum! 🌟📚
