Folio: Daily Medical Journals
PubMed, EBM & News Reader
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New in 1.10: listen to papers read aloud, a four-color highlighter, and a Journals shelf with the latest issue of every journal you care about — plus offline reading.
The peer-reviewed reader for physicians who care about how they read.
A front page for medical literature — laid out like a journal you'd keep on your desk.
Pick your specialties. Open Folio. Read. No ads, no streaks, no ranking by who screamed loudest — just the literature, ranked by what actually matters: journal quality, citation rate, and how recently it was published.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Choose your specialties from 50 options, from Cardiology to Child Psychiatry.
2. Folio pulls fresh peer-reviewed papers from PubMed every day — the top 50 from each specialty, surfaced in a clean editorial feed.
3. Open a paper. Read the abstract. If it's Open Access, read the full text natively in Folio. If it's behind a paywall, jump to the publisher in one tap.
MADE FOR PROFESSIONAL READERS
• Listen — papers read aloud, hands-free, with lock-screen controls. Citations and reference lists are skipped automatically.
• Four-color highlighter for full-text papers. Anything you highlight is saved with its complete text — yours to keep.
• Journals shelf — the latest issue of every journal in your specialties, plus NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and the other flagships. New issues land in your feed the day they publish.
• Follow any journal — search 150,000+ titles in any language and shelve their new issues.
• Offline — your last feed is always readable, connection or not.
• Optional daily reminder about new papers in your specialties. One a day, never more.
• Honest relevance scoring — Relative Citation Ratio (NIH iCite), journal rank (SCImago SJR), and recency. No black box; the inputs are explained in-app.
• Native full-text reader for Open Access articles (CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC0), built from Europe PMC's structured XML. Real typography, not a stripped-down webview.
• References and citing papers for every article, one tap away.
• Open Access detection across 40M+ papers via Unpaywall — a green dot tells you there's a free full text before you tap.
• PDF priority when Open Access — Folio goes straight to the PDF, LibKey-style.
• RIS export to Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and Papers with one tap.
• Read Later, Collections, and Saved Searches — your library, on your device.
DESIGNED THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY READ
No tab bar. No badges. No streaks. New York serif for titles, SF Pro for UI. Light and dark mode, both hand-tuned. Dynamic Type throughout.
PRIVACY BY DESIGN
No account. No analytics. No tracking SDKs. Your specialty list and saved papers live on your device, not on our servers.
DATA SOURCES
Article metadata from PubMed / MEDLINE (U.S. National Library of Medicine). Citations from NIH iCite. Open Access status from Unpaywall. Full text from Europe PMC. All open scientific infrastructure, all credited in-app. Folio is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIH, NLM, or any publisher.
DISCLAIMER
Folio is an information service that provides access to peer-reviewed medical literature indexed in PubMed. The content is provided strictly for
informational and educational purposes and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Folio does not provide clinical
recommendations and does not replace the judgment of a qualified healthcare provider.
Always consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or before making decisions about your own care or your patients' care.
Reliance on any information accessed through Folio is solely at your own risk.
Folio is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NIH, the National Library of Medicine, or any of the journals whose content is indexed by PubMed.
Source: PubMed®, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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Ratings & Reviews
Folio 1.10 — the biggest update yet.
LISTEN
Papers, read aloud. Abstracts for everyone; full text with Folio Plus. Background playback with lock-screen controls — references and citation clutter are skipped automatically, and the voice matches the paper's language.
HIGHLIGHT
A four-color highlighter for full-text papers. Anything you highlight is saved to your library with its complete text — yours to keep, even offline, even years later.
JOURNALS
A new tab with the latest issue of every journal that matters to your specialties, plus the world's flagships — NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Anesthesiology, Circulation and hundreds more. New issues appear in your feed the day they publish.
FOLLOW ANY JOURNAL
Search 150,000+ journals in any language and put their new issues on your shelf. Your first follow is free.
ALSO
- Your feed now works offline — the last edition is always readable.
- An optional daily reminder about new papers in your specialties. One a day, never more.
- Dozens of refinements throughout.
No ads. No tracking. Ever.
The developer, LogicLine 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 .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- LogicLine LLC
- Size
- 12.3 MB
- Category
- Medical
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Frequent
Medical Treatment information
Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Annual $24.99
- Lifetime $39.99
- Monthly $4.99
- Copyright
- © LogicLine LLC