My Reading Stack
Read, annotate, compare papers
Free · In-App Purchases
A reader for the papers you actually have to read: for a class, a lab meeting, a review or your own research. Made for Duo.
A reader for the papers you actually have to read: for a class, a lab meeting, a review or your own research. More than a plain PDF viewer, less work than a reference manager.
READ COMFORTABLY
• Pages fill the screen. Trim Margins crops away blank borders so the text is bigger.
• Double-tap a column to zoom into it; double-tap again to zoom back out.
• Light, dark and sepia reading, and two pages side by side on a wide screen.
• The title bar shows where you are: page, and the section you're in.
• Jump to any section, page or note from Contents.
• Find in Paper shows every match and steps through them.
KEEP WHAT MATTERS
• Highlight and add notes from the text selection menu.
• Tag them: Key finding, Method concern, Cite this, Follow up, Disagree, Connects to. Filter your notes by tag.
• Copy with citation: copied text comes with an in-text citation, like (Bartolucci et al., 2025, p. 4).
• On iPad, highlight and write with Apple Pencil.
• Export your notes as Markdown or text, grouped by tag, or as an annotated PDF.
COMPARE PAPERS
• The literature matrix puts a group of papers in one table: each paper's aim, material, approach, result and your own notes.
• Fill it in with AI, then edit any cell.
• Export it as CSV or copy it as a table into Numbers, Excel, Pages or Word.
A LIBRARY THAT ORGANIZES ITSELF
• Paper details (exact title, authors, journal, year) are looked up from the paper's DOI or arXiv ID.
• On-device intelligence writes a one-line summary, finds the paper's sections and picks out its topics.
• Group papers into Queue, Reading and Done, star favorites, and browse by topic. Reading progress is shown for every paper.
• Search by title, author or topic, or describe what you're looking for and let on-device AI find it.
ASK ABOUT A PAPER
• Summarize a paper or ask questions about it with Apple Intelligence, on your device.
• Or add your own Claude API key for deeper answers.
EVERYWHERE YOU READ
• Papers, highlights and notes sync through your iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• Add PDFs from Files, from the share sheet in any app, or with File ▸ Import on the Mac.
• On a Mac, keep Contents open in an inspector and the literature matrix in its own window.
• On iPhone Duo, an unfolded phone becomes an open book, with two pages on either side of the fold.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no servers.
• Summaries, sections and topics are made on your device.
• To look up paper details, only the paper's public DOI or arXiv ID is sent (to Crossref, DataCite or arXiv). You can turn this off in Settings.
• Paper text is sent to Anthropic only if you add a Claude API key and use Ask Claude.
My Reading Stack is free, made by one developer. If it helps your reading, there's a tip jar in Settings.
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Made for iPhone Duo, plus a place for your own notes on a paper.
• On an unfolded iPhone Duo, facing pages fill the screen with only a narrow gap at the fold, and the controls hide while you read.
• On the Duo, links to figures, tables, sections and references open on the other half, so you keep your place.
• General Notes in the Notes tab hold your own notes on the whole paper. They're included in exports and My Notes.
• In the literature matrix, tap a citation to open the paper.
• An easier start: an empty library shows Add Papers, and tips appear one at a time.
• New papers open at the top of the first page.
• Tags stay readable on a selected paper, and topic names keep acronyms like AI and HCI.
The developer, Richard Pak, 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.
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Information
- Provider
- Richard Pak
- Size
- 8.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Tip jar USD 5.99
- Tip jar USD 3.99
- Tip jar USD 0.99
- Copyright
- © Richard Pak