Product overview

What ScholarThread can do, today and tomorrow.

ScholarThread is under active development and we are working hard to make it the product you deserve. Everything below the fold is already shipped; further down, the roadmap of what we're building next.

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What you get

Everything you can use right now on the web. The iPhone and iPad app is on the App Store, and an Android app is on the roadmap below.

Library

Import your Zotero collections with a single click
Enrich metadata from OpenAlex: abstracts, authors, citations
Add local papers or upload PDFs directly
Organise into collections, move items between them
Search across titles, authors, abstracts and notes

Reader

Read PDFs with a proper document viewer
Open EPUBs with the same reading surface
Highlight passages in five colors, each one convertible to a note
Write on PDFs with Apple Pencil on iPad, or your finger on iPhone. Ink stays pinned to the page at any zoom
Your handwriting syncs between iPad and iPhone, and shows read-only in the web reader
Deep-link to any page from a note, highlight or citation
Resume where you left off across devices

Chat & AI

Ask questions and get answers grounded in your papers, with a citation trail back to the passage that supports each claim — Pro
Assisted note generation from a paper or passage — Pro

Citations

Copy a citation in BibTeX, RIS or any CSL style
Bulk-export a collection, a search result, or your whole library

Your notes, your files

Anchor notes to a paper, a passage, or a concept
Link notes to each other with typed relationships
Templated literature notes and claim notes for structured reading
Surface tension links — where two papers in your library disagree, not just where they cite each other
Full-text search across your entire notebook
Export any note as Markdown for Obsidian or your own vault
Export your whole notebook as an Obsidian-compatible Markdown vault
Import a Markdown file or a full vault ZIP in one click
Round-trip notes through a private Git repository — your history, your host
Choose the direction: pull from Git, push to it, or both (last-writer-wins)
Every note has a stable YAML frontmatter — plain text, greppable, diffable

Knowledge graph

Open a map of any paper or note: what it cites, what links to it, and the claims that rest on it
Papers, notes, claims, authors and publications each have their own shape and colour
Connections are drawn by what they mean (a note link, a suggested link, a citation, a claim), each in its own line style. Hide any kind you don't want
Click a paper to read it, a note to edit it, or a node to re-centre the map on it
Find the orphans: papers nothing links to or cites, and notes that point at no paper
Built from your own library. Opening the graph uses no AI credits

Integrations

Zotero: the world's most popular reference manager
OpenAlex: the largest open index of scholarly works
Obsidian: Markdown vault export + import with wikilinks
Git: any repo you own (GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, self-hosted)
MCP server: connect your own AI assistant (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or any MCP client) to your library with a scoped API key — Pro

What's coming next

No dates, because dates on public roadmaps age badly. The order below is the order we're building in.

Building next

The core value ScholarThread was built to deliver.

Planned

Viva coach

Examiner-mode Q&A on your thesis + reading list — practice the questions before the day.

In progress

Android app

The iPhone and iPad app is on the App Store. Android is next: offline reading and note-taking on your phone or tablet, synced automatically the moment you're back online — the same library, the same account.

Try it today.

Free tier is more than enough to see it in action; no card, no trial timer.