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See what's new in your field
A feed of new arXiv and PubMed papers tuned to your topics, instead of a Scholar alert too broad to open.
For researchers with more papers than reading time
Stop falling behind on your field.
ResearchPod surfaces the new papers that actually match your work, and gives you enough of each one in minutes to call it: full read, skip, or listen on the commute. The to-read list stops growing.
Under 2 min
to triage a paper
3 free
papers every month
Your field
arXiv and PubMed, filtered
Researchers from
From the firehose to a short list
Surface it, triage it, move on.
Nobody reads every paper. ResearchPod does the skimming, so what reaches your desk is the short list worth a real read.
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Triage it in a minute
Question, method, findings, limitations. Enough to know whether this one is worth your afternoon.
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Check the claim before you commit
Ask whether the method holds, what the sample was, how it sits against the work you already know.
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Clear the to-read list
The maybes go in your list and come back as audio, so the pile stops growing while you are not looking.
Who this is for
For people who have to know what just came out.
ResearchPod is for people whose work depends on staying current in a field that publishes faster than anyone can read, and who are tired of finding out late.
For grad students
Six papers a week from one seminar is 200 pages. Triage them in an evening and spend the real reading time on the two that count.
For active researchers
Stop finding out about the paper six months late. Watch your subfield without screening every abstract yourself.
For the backlog
Twenty papers you have been meaning to get to. A 10-page paper becomes a 3-minute two-host podcast, and the list comes down on the commute.
For non-native English speakers
Academic English slows the sorting down. Get to the finding fast, so screening papers costs you no more time than anyone else.
Wall of love
Loved by people knee-deep in the literature.
Early notes from people using ResearchPod in the middle of real reading, writing, and commuting.
“I retained the information so much better than actually reading, and it was a lot quicker.”
Tamaya
Master's student, University of Arizona
“You have an article with 10 pages and you get a podcast with two people talking about it in just 3 minutes. It's ingenious, actually.”
Montahe
Master's student, Tunisia
“It wasn't just text-to-speech. It was two people talking through the topic in a natural way that made it so much easier to listen to.”
Rebecca
Student, University of Manitoba
For desktop
Use ResearchPod on the web when your papers are already on your laptop.
For mobile
Scan the QR code to open ResearchPod in the App Store.
Research-backed design
You get through more when audio, text, and structure work together.
The evidence does not say audio magically replaces reading. It says structure and format decide how much of a stack you actually get through, and how much of it sticks.
Read the research62 studies
Portable learning can hold up
A 2022 medical education review found podcast learning generally noninferior to traditional teaching for knowledge retention.
Kelly et al., Academic Medicine (2022)
Meta-analysis
Structure lowers the load
A multimedia learning meta-analysis found cueing reduced cognitive load and improved retention and transfer.
Xie et al., PLOS ONE (2017)
11 studies
Audio works better with support
A 2024 scoping review found educational podcasts promising, with design quality and context doing real work.
de Matos et al., Rev Lat Am Enfermagem (2024)
Three modes, one paper
Ask it, read it, or listen. Same paper, three ways in.
Every answer and every minute of audio is grounded in the paper you loaded, not a chatbot's loose recollection of it.
Ask
Ask about methods, assumptions, related work, or any section that needs a second pass.
Transcript
Skim the explanation, search terms, and click any line to jump to that moment.
Audio
Choose a two-host explanation or a single-narrator reading when listening fits the moment.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when papers pile up.
Both plans include the full workflow: search, upload, explanations, questions, transcript, audio, and library.
Free
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3 paper summaries and 3 podcast generations each month to run it against the papers already on your list.
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€9.99/month
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Premium includes up to 100 podcast generations and 30 audiobook generations each month, unlimited Ask questions, and the full paper workspace. Built for ongoing reading lists, literature reviews, and staying current.
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- Search arXiv, PubMed, and open research sources
- Upload your own PDFs
- Structured explanations
- Grounded paper questions
- Synced transcript and audio modes
- Personal paper library