Synapse is a personalized feed of newly published research papers. It helps researchers stay up to date without hopping between journals, emails and websites.
Instantly see what’s new, what’s relevant, and why it matters to your work. Synapse Learns your research interests and continuously monitors journals, authors, and institutions, notifying you when relevant papers are published. All your research interests, sources, and discoveries in one place. No keyword spam. No endless searching. Just relevant research, every day.
Built for scientists, clinicians, and researchers who want signal over noise.
USE SYNAPSE TO
• Create personalized research feeds
• Instead of keyword matching, track your research questions
• Follow alerts for journals, authors and institutions and see their papers in one place
• View summaries and methodologies so you know whether a paper is worth opening
• Track papers that are getting online attention
• Read full papers on the go
• One place to save and organize what you care about
WHY RESEARCHERS USE SYNAPSE
• Stop missing important papers related to your work
• Reduce time spent checking multiple platforms
• See what’s gaining momentum in your field
• Understand research faster. Synapse extracts methodology, key results, summaries and study rigor
• Connect with researchers working on similar problems
• Connect your institution and reference manager
ACCESS
200M+ scholarly works
• Journal articles, preprints, conference papers, books, datasets, and more indexed via OpenAlex
60M+ open access works
• One of the largest openly accessible research corpora globally, aggregated across publishers and repositories
15M+ preprints
• From arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN, and other major preprint servers
250M+ authors & contributors
• Disambiguated researcher profiles linked across publications and institutions
40K+ academic journals & venues
• Including high-impact journals, society publications, and conference proceedings
100K+ institutions worldwide
• Universities, hospitals, research centers, and labs mapped globally
Update: The app creators addressed many of my complaints and the app is doing better already!This app has the potential to be incredible. It’s so close, but the issue is currently it’s just buggy in a few important places. The app looks great, there’s lots of options for customization and setting up the research you want to find… only for it to not listen to your suggestions. The biggest issue I have currently, is simply that the key functions I want to use this app for don’t work well. The ‘My Journals’ section, which should be based on the journals you have decided to follow, does not function properly. This is disappointing as this was one of the features I was most excited about. Additionally,The ‘For You’ feed is horribly difficult to tailor. I have started liking and saving papers that are similar to what I’m looking for, but the app still continues to try to give me papers that are unrelated or are from journals that I have 0 interest in. There should be a function that allows you to:1) Refresh your feed, especially after you make changes such as following new journals or liking a series of papers. 2) You should be able to mark papers or journals as ‘not interested’ so that they don’t show up in your feed. My feed is cluttered with journals I have never even heard of and have no interest reading. Once some of the small issues are addressed, this app will be incredible.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the valuable feedback!We've made several updates to address the points you've made:1. The My Journals section should now follow desired behavior and show yo only the content from the journals you follow2. The For You feed logic is improved to take into account your liked and saved papers and refresh faster3. You can mark papers are Relevant / Not Relevant by swiping left or right on the paper cardsWe'd be happy to set up a session to work through any other issues and incorporate more of your ideas, if you reach out to ginebra@synapsesocial.com.Also - we'd really appreciate if you update your star review in case we addressed your feedback, as we are trying to grow the app and get the word out.
Impressive research app - helpful
Jesselins
Synapse has been a game changer for how I stay on top of research. The design is clean and the algorithm is solid at bringing up new papers I wasn’t aware of and introducing relevant researchers I didn’t know existed. Check it out
Great app for cardiology
OO_Sola
This app is quite helpful for reviewing recent, relevant, and groundbreaking cardiology research. It provides a quick high-yield overview of studies related to the user’s areas of interest. The AI-generated visual summaries of each study are particularly useful.
The best app for research papers.
Alexru59
Love the constant updates and the quality of the content the team is shipping. Highly, highly recommend if you’re serious about research.
Journal Club has a redesigned tab with simpler join buttons, and club pills on Pulse now show each club's clips, quotes and posts. Paper pages show the journal's own figures with captions and lead with the journal's graphical abstract. Papers open faster, and a new member's first feed starts with their own interests.
Version 3.0.15
The developer, Synapse Social LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Seller
Synapse Social LLC
Size
78.6 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
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