About this app
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
Latest release
What’s New
Bug fixes and feed improvements
Audience growth
Ratings growth
Baseline captured. Growth appears after the crawler observes a changed rating count.
Momentum comes from crawler snapshots for the tracked storefront. “Viral growth signal” means unusually fast recent rating gains; it is an indicator, not download data.
Price tracking
Price intelligence
First snapshot captured. The trend line starts after the next crawler price observation.
- First observed Aug 19, 2026 · 11:47 PM Free