R Discovery is your #1 place to discover research literature, stay current, and read what matters faster. Built for students, researchers, clinicians, educators, and academics, R Discovery helps you find relevant papers without spending hours searching across scattered sources.
With research-grade AI workflows, R Discovery accelerates every step of your literature journey: discover papers, understand key findings, chat with PDFs, listen to research, translate papers, and build a personalized academic library around your interests. We search, curate, summarize, and organize the literature so you can spend more time on meaningful research and more time with the people you love.
R Discovery gives you access to:
• 150M+ journal articles
• 78M+ open access papers
• 10M+ conference documents
• 5M+ preprints
• 7.5M+ patents
• 8M+ summaries and highlights
• 9.5M+ research topics
• 14M+ authors
• 64K+ journals
• 120K+ universities and institutions
Why researchers use R Discovery:
• Personalized research feeds based on your interests
• Fast literature search for papers, journals, authors, topics, and institutions
• Reliable, clean research database built to reduce duplication and low-quality content
• Open access discovery so you can quickly find papers you can read
• Full-text access with institutional login through GetFTR and LibKey integrations
• Alerts for newly published papers in your field
• Summaries and highlights to assess relevance faster
• Bookmarks and reading lists to organize your library
Upgrade to R Discovery Prime to accelerate your research further with unlimited access for research-grade AI workflows
• Ask R Discovery for reference-backed answers from research papers
• Chat with PDFs and get instant answers from full papers
• Listen to papers with audio streaming for research on the go
• Translate research papers into your preferred language
• Sync your saved papers with Zotero and Mendeley
R Discovery partners with leading global publishers, societies, and research platforms including Wiley, IOP Publishing, Springer Nature, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Hindawi, NEJM, Emerald Publishing, Duke University Press, IntechOpen, AIAA, Karger, Underline.io, J-STAGE, and more.
Join 3M+ academics on R Discovery, the highest rated app in this space with a 4.6+ App Store rating. Free to use, or upgrade to R Discovery Prime for unlimited premium access. Get it now!
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The app keeps getting better and provides a good UI. I like the fact that I get to pick concepts I am interested in and can focus on multiple areas at the same time.
Developer Response
Hi, thanks for sticking with the app and sharing about the improvements we keep making to it! We liked to hear that it fulfills your need to read about multiple areas of interest :) Do keep sharing feedback and suggestions for improvement by writing to us at discovery@researcher.life.
I want to love this app…
abcuh92
The app is great and has a lot of features that are great for students and researchers. I love that I can select topics and journals that are relevant to me and that it provides me plenty of OpenAccess options. However, the app is super clunky and slow. It seems bloated on the back end and it makes the app almost unusable. I think I may just use it to get a reading list going and then read the articles on another app like Zotero or Reader.
Developer Response
Hi! Thanks for taking the time and sharing your feedback with us. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you faced with R Discovery. We request you to please write to us at discovery@researcher.life with your registered email ID, and we will try to fix this as soon as possible for you. Regards.
Great idea, but app doesn't work
iamunzha
The Home Screen is loading for three days now, audio translation is in the promo banners but doesn't exist in reality, buttons in the search are extremely slow. Also sometimes I don't understand what all these sections are. Also I would like to have more advance search functionality. But for now it's impossible to use.
Developer Response
Hi there! Thank you for your detailed feedback, and we apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing. To help us investigate and resolve these issues, could you please email us at discovery@researcher.life? This will allow us to check your specific account and provide a solution. We’re eager to assist you and improve your experience!
Please consider the option to add authors in preview
椰包
works amazing! It would be great to have the option to turn on view with the first and corresponding author in preview boxes of each article
Enhancements and Bug fixes.
Version 4.1.2
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CACTUS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES PTE. LTD
Size
58.2 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.