Synapse Social
Follow Any Research
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
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
bug fixes and performance improvements
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 .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Synapse Social LLC
- Size
- 47.3 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Frequent
Medical Treatment information
Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Sexual Content or Nudity
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
User-Generated Content
Health or Wellness Topics
- Copyright
- © 2026 Synapse Social