Acadenda is your companion for academic conferences. Plan your days, capture research ideas, and keep your academic connections together across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Bring your program into Acadenda
• Save a conference PDF, open or share the original anytime, and parse it when you are ready.
• Use an external AI app with the supplied prompt, then paste its JSON response back into Acadenda.
• Choose on-device parsing when Apple Intelligence is supported, enabled, and available.
• Import .acadenda or compatible JSON files, or paste JSON text and preview the program.
• Follow a program link supplied by an organizer to receive schedule updates.
Plan your conference day
• Browse sessions, talks, speakers, and rooms in calendar and timeline views.
• Star the sessions and talks you want to attend, then see what is happening now, next, and later in Today.
• Explore recommendations based on your research interests, see why talks match, and refresh recommendations when needed.
• Follow researchers and find their talks in your recommendations.
• Set session reminders and keep your personal notes and stars when programs are updated.
Capture research ideas
• Add text, photos, or voice recordings to talk and person notes.
• Keep track of questions to ask, research ideas, and points worth revisiting.
• Browse and search your notes in one place to make reviewing the conference easier.
Keep academic connections together
• Organize researchers’ names, affiliations, and contact details.
• Follow researchers directly from the People list or their individual pages.
• Find people quickly with Following, With Notes, and To Contact filters.
• Create an academic card, choose what to share, and exchange it using a QR code or contact file.
Useful before the conference and on stage
• Use the presentation timer and full-screen countdown board to chair sessions, rehearse talks, or keep presentations on time.
• Choose Light, Dark, or System appearance.
• Use the app in English or Traditional Chinese.
• Sync through your personal iCloud account across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
External AI services are used separately. Apple Intelligence features depend on device support, system settings, and model availability.
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