A reader for the papers you actually have to read: for a class, a lab meeting, a review or your own research. More than a plain PDF viewer, less work than a reference manager.
READ COMFORTABLY
• Pages fill the screen. Trim Margins crops away blank borders so the text is bigger.
• Double-tap a column to zoom into it; double-tap again to zoom back out.
• Light, dark and sepia reading, and two pages side by side on a wide screen.
• The title bar shows where you are: page, and the section you're in.
• Jump to any section, page or note from Contents.
• Find in Paper shows every match and steps through them.
KEEP WHAT MATTERS
• Highlight and add notes from the text selection menu.
• Tag them: Key finding, Method concern, Cite this, Follow up, Disagree, Connects to. Filter your notes by tag.
• Copy with citation: copied text comes with an in-text citation, like (Bartolucci et al., 2025, p. 4).
• On iPad, highlight and write with Apple Pencil.
• Export your notes as Markdown or text, grouped by tag, or as an annotated PDF.
COMPARE PAPERS
• The literature matrix puts a group of papers in one table: each paper's aim, material, approach, result and your own notes.
• Fill it in with AI, then edit any cell.
• Export it as CSV or copy it as a table into Numbers, Excel, Pages or Word.
A LIBRARY THAT ORGANIZES ITSELF
• Paper details (exact title, authors, journal, year) are looked up from the paper's DOI or arXiv ID.
• On-device intelligence writes a one-line summary, finds the paper's sections and picks out its topics.
• Group papers into Queue, Reading and Done, star favorites, and browse by topic. Reading progress is shown for every paper.
• Search by title, author or topic, or describe what you're looking for and let on-device AI find it.
ASK ABOUT A PAPER
• Summarize a paper or ask questions about it with Apple Intelligence, on your device.
• Or use your own AI service for deeper answers.
EVERYWHERE YOU READ
• Papers, highlights and notes sync through your iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• Add PDFs from Files, from the share sheet in any app, or with File ▸ Import on the Mac.
• On a Mac, keep Contents open in an inspector and the literature matrix in its own window.
• On iPhone Duo, an unfolded phone becomes an open book, with two pages on either side of the fold.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no servers.
• Summaries, sections and topics are made on your device.
• To look up paper details, only the paper's public DOI or arXiv ID is sent (to Crossref, DataCite or arXiv). You can turn this off in Settings.
• Paper text is sent to Anthropic only if you add a Claude API key and use Ask Claude.
My Reading Stack is free, made by one developer. If it helps your reading, there's a tip jar in Settings.
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