3 real research papers a day. The original abstract, always.
Fresh papers from 20 fields, added twice a week. Each comes with its original abstract, exactly as the authors wrote it, and a free PDF when one exists. Many also have a short AI summary on top, which you can turn off.
Get today’s 3 papers on iPhoneFree to read. No account needed. iPhone, iOS 17 or later.
Today’s papers
The papers Nerdi picked for today. Open one and read the real abstract.
Keeping up with research is a losing game
Thousands of papers come out every day. Alerts pile up unread, and the apps that promise to help hand you an AI summary in place of the paper.
Nerdi keeps the paper in front of you. It gives you a small, fixed number of real papers each day, in your fields, as their authors wrote them. Read three abstracts in five minutes, save the ones that matter, and open the PDF when you want the whole thing.
How Nerdi compares
| Nerdi | AI summary apps | Google Scholar alerts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you read | The authors’ own abstract, under an optional, labelled AI summary | A machine-written summary | A title and a snippet |
| How many papers | 3 picks a day, plus a feed | An endless feed | Whatever matches your alert |
| Account needed | No | Usually | Yes (Google) |
| Free PDF in the app | When one exists | Varies | No, links out |
| Fields | 20, from medicine to the humanities | Varies | Any |
| Works on | iPhone only | Varies | Any browser, email |
Nerdi doesn’t manage citations for a thesis. Keep Zotero or Paperpile for that; Plus can export your library to them as BibTeX or RIS.
Pricing
Free
$0
- 3 daily picks and the full feed
- Search and field filters
- Read abstracts and PDFs
- Save up to 5 papers
Nerdi Plus
$29.99 a year
- Unlimited library
- Notes and collections
- Offline PDFs
- BibTeX and RIS export
- Add any paper by DOI, arXiv or OpenAlex link
- Sync across devices
7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Also $4.99 a month, $1.99 a week, or $59.99 once for Lifetime. US prices; your App Store shows yours.
Reading stays free. If Plus ends, nothing you saved is removed.
Who makes Nerdi
I’m Koray Özcan, a solo developer in Turkey. I built Nerdi because I wanted to read real science every day without wading through alerts or trusting a summary I couldn’t check. Every paper in Nerdi links back to its source, so you can always check it yourself.
Questions or ideas: korayozcan33@gmail.com. I read every email.