Wispar: Research Companion

Wispar is your personal research companion — a privacy-friendly app for exploring academic journals and scientific articles. Using the Crossref and OpenAlex APIs, Wispar helps you stay updated on your favourite journals. Follow journals to receive the latest research abstracts in your main feed — no account required.

- Search scholarly articles and journals
- Follow journals to stay updated
- Add custom keywords and queries to your feed
- Access open-access articles via Unpaywall
- Use EZproxy to unlock paywalled research
- Chat with AI about your downloaded papers
- Send articles to your Zotero library
- View graphical abstracts
- Translate abstracts to your preferred language
- Built for researchers, students, and the academically curious

Wispar is user-friendly, open-source, and designed to respect your privacy.

As a community-built project, contributions are always welcome! If you'd like to contribute, please visit our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Scriptbash/Wispar

If the app isn't available in your language, please consider helping with translations by visiting our hosted Weblate instance: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/wispar