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Save a paper
Share it from Safari or your PDF app, search arXiv and PubMed, or upload the file. It lands in your list.
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For researchers with more papers saved than read
Your reading list. Ready for your commute.
Turn research papers into audio explanations, and finally get through the papers you keep saving on the way to work.
2–3 min
from saved paper to podcast
3 free
podcasts every month
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How it fits your day
Save it now. Hear it on the way in.
The papers you keep meaning to read stop waiting for a free afternoon. The commute does the first pass, so desk time goes to the few worth a close read.
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Get a podcast
About two minutes later: a sober two-host walkthrough of the question, method, findings, and limits. Not a read-aloud.
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Listen on your next commute
Download it for the underground, control it from the lock screen, and arrive knowing which papers deserve your desk time.
Who this is for
For people who save more papers than they read.
ResearchPod is for people whose work depends on papers they never have a free afternoon for, and who already spend part of every day on the way somewhere.
For the papers you keep saving
Twenty papers you have been meaning to get to. Each becomes a two-host podcast, and the list comes down on the way to work.
For grad students
Six papers a week from one seminar is 200 pages. Triage them in an evening and spend the real reading time on the two that count.
For active researchers
Stop finding out about the paper six months late. Watch your subfield without screening every abstract yourself.
For non-native English speakers
Academic English slows the sorting down. Get to the finding fast, so screening papers costs you no more time than anyone else.
Wall of love
Loved by people knee-deep in the literature.
Early notes from people using ResearchPod in the middle of real reading, writing, and commuting.
“I retained the information so much better than actually reading, and it was a lot quicker.”
Tamaya
Master's student, University of Arizona
“You have an article with 10 pages and you get a podcast with two people talking about it in just 3 minutes. It's ingenious, actually.”
Montahe
Master's student, Tunisia
“It wasn't just text-to-speech. It was two people talking through the topic in a natural way that made it so much easier to listen to.”
Rebecca
Student, University of Manitoba
For desktop
Use ResearchPod on the web when your papers are already on your laptop.
For mobile
Scan the QR code to open ResearchPod in the App Store.
Research-backed design
You get through more when audio, text, and structure work together.
The evidence does not say audio magically replaces reading. It says structure and format decide how much of a stack you actually get through, and how much of it sticks.
Read the research62 studies
Portable learning can hold up
A 2022 medical education review found podcast learning generally noninferior to traditional teaching for knowledge retention.
Kelly et al., Academic Medicine (2022)
Meta-analysis
Structure lowers the load
A multimedia learning meta-analysis found cueing reduced cognitive load and improved retention and transfer.
Xie et al., PLOS ONE (2017)
11 studies
Audio works better with support
A 2024 scoping review found educational podcasts promising, with design quality and context doing real work.
de Matos et al., Rev Lat Am Enfermagem (2024)
Three modes, one paper
Ask it, read it, or listen. Same paper, three ways in.
Every answer and every minute of audio is grounded in the paper you loaded, not a chatbot's loose recollection of it.
Ask
Ask about methods, assumptions, related work, or any section that needs a second pass.
Transcript
Skim the explanation, search terms, and click any line to jump to that moment.
Audio
Choose a two-host explanation or a single-narrator reading when listening fits the moment.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when papers pile up.
Both plans include the full workflow: search, upload, explanations, questions, transcript, audio, and library.
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Free paper summaries and 3 podcasts each month to run it against the papers already on your list.
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Premium includes up to 100 podcasts and 30 audiobooks each month, unlimited Ask questions, and the full paper workspace. Built for ongoing reading lists, literature reviews, and staying current.
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- Search arXiv, PubMed, and open research sources
- Upload your own PDFs
- Structured explanations
- Grounded paper questions
- Synced transcript and audio modes
- Personal paper library