jakobkreft/Aftergleam

jakobkreft/Aftergleam has 53 GitHub stars and 4 forks. GitHot measured +3 stars in 24 hours and +6 in 7 days. Last checked 2026-11-12 17:14 UTC. Last push 2026-11-04.

How these counts are measured

53 stars 4 Forks +3 in 24h

What you can do

A short daily digest, ranked for you, with the reason each paper was picked
Optional keywords: papers that mention a name you watch for, such as "H-Net" or "C. elegans", come first, from any field. A keyword can also need two words at once, such as "lanosterol + hypoxia", and its bell tells you when a new paper mentions it
Explore, for papers just outside your usual reading
Popular, for what other people are reading

Measured star growth

in 24h: +3
in 7 days: +6
in 15 days: Update delayed
in 1 month: Update delayed

Net star changes over overlapping periods, not daily totals. Missing measurements are left blank. Stars measure attention, not software quality.

About

A private reader for new research papers, ranked on your phone.

Security

README.md

Original

Aftergleam - academic papers

A private reader for new research papers, ranked on your phone.

aftergleam.app

Hundreds of new papers appear every day. Aftergleam reads them and shows you the few worth your time. It learns what you like from how you react, and the model is trained on your device. There is no account and nothing about your reading leaves your phone.

For you Subjects Popular Ranking Library A paper

Features

A short daily digest, ranked for you, with the reason each paper was picked
Optional keywords: papers that mention a name you watch for, such as "H-Net" or "C. elegans", come first, from any field. A keyword can also need two words at once, such as "lanosterol + hypoxia", and its bell tells you when a new paper mentions it
Explore, for papers just outside your usual reading
Popular, for what other people are reading
Read PDFs in the app, find any word in them, copy text from them, and keep them offline
A reader view for arXiv papers: text that fits the screen at the size you choose, with figures, tables and equations, from arXiv's own HTML version of the paper
Search, save, and import a BibTeX or RIS library from Zotero
Export and restore your reading history as a plain file

Sources

Field	Server
Physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics	arXiv
Biology and medicine	bioRxiv, medRxiv
Psychology, social science, education	PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EdArXiv
Law	Law Archive
Chemistry	ChemRxiv
Earth sciences, ecology	EarthArXiv, EcoEvoRxiv
Cryptography	IACR ePrint

Only the servers your subjects need are contacted.

Privacy

No analytics, no ads, no account, and no server of our own. Your reactions, your reading history and the model stay on your device. Fetching papers means asking the servers above for them, so those servers see the requests. PRIVACY.md lists exactly what is sent.

Building

cd android
./gradlew assembleDebug

Any JDK 17 or newer will do. See docs/development.md for tests and releases, docs/how-it-works.md for the ranking, and docs/results.md for what was measured.

Support

Aftergleam is free, with no ads and nothing to sell. If it is useful to you, you can support it on Ko-fi.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

The reader view's stylesheet, in android/app/src/main/assets/reader/, is ar5iv-css by Deyan Ginev, under the MIT licence.