Researchy

Native macOS paper reading and learning app for arXiv papers.

Run During Development

swift run

Build .app

Scripts/build_app.sh

The app bundle is written to:

build/Researchy.app

To copy the app into /Applications after building:

Scripts/install_app.sh

Current Features

• Load arXiv IDs and abs / pdf / html links.
• Read arXiv HTML in a native WKWebView.
• Read PDF in native PDFKit.
• Translate selected text through an OpenAI-compatible API.
• Save notes with selected text and reading position.
• Locate notes back to HTML scroll position or PDF page.
• Bring your own endpoint and API key in Settings.
• List models from /models and select one.
• Ask AI about the full paper, selected text, notes, and generate a mind map.
• Choose light, dark, or system appearance.
• Choose fonts for notes / translation and AI Q&A.

Storage

State is stored locally at:

~/Library/Application Support/Researchy/state.json

This MVP stores the API key locally in that JSON file. Move it to Keychain before distributing the app.

License

Researchy is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE.