# Nerdi: Research Papers — Read Science & Journals Daily

> Read Science & Journals Daily (iPhone/iPad app by KORAY OZCAN.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nerdi-research-papers/id6813826387 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [KORAY OZCAN](https://appshunter.io/developer/1893581139)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 55 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), European Portuguese, European Spanish, Turkish
- Released: 2026-10-05
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Nerdi?

Read real research papers from across science — a fresh handful every day, with original abstracts and PDFs. Papers come from OpenAlex, an open catalog of scholarly research. Each entry has the paper's actual title, authors and original abstract, plus a link to the source — usually a PDF, sometimes a publisher's page.

The catalog is a curated, growing selection of recent papers across twelve fields — a few hundred new ones arrive each week — rather than the whole of OpenAlex. It is meant to let you read carefully, not to be a search engine. There are no AI-generated summaries: what you read is the paper's own abstract, unmodified.

You do not need an account. Open the app and the day's picks are there. Save a paper, keep your place in it, and hide ones you are not interested in — all of that works entirely on your device if you never sign in.

Signing in with Apple is optional. With Nerdi Plus, your saved papers, your reading position in each, your notes and collections, your hidden list and your interests follow you between devices. Apple's private relay address works fine if you would rather not share your real one.

Nerdi Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription, weekly, monthly or annual. It gives you an unlimited library (free readers can save 5 papers), notes and collections for your papers, offline PDFs, BibTeX and RIS export of your library, adding any paper by pasting a DOI, arXiv, PubMed or OpenAlex link, and sync across your devices. Reading, the daily picks, search and filters stay free, and nothing you saved is removed if Plus ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Worth knowing before you start: PDF links come from publishers, and like any link on the open web some will be slow, paywalled or broken. An "open access" label reflects the source's claim, not a guarantee. There is no highlighting inside PDFs, and no notifications.

No ads and no cross-app tracking. Nothing is sold and nothing goes to data brokers. Nerdi Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription; everything else is free. Usage sharing is on by default with a switch in Settings; it records a handful of interaction events — opening a paper, a PDF loading or failing, saving something, tapping a daily pick — and never what you searched for or the contents of what you read.

Requires iOS 17 or later. iPhone only.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nerdi Plus Weekly | $1.99 | per 7 days |
| Nerdi Plus Monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| Nerdi Plus Yearly | $29.99 | per year |


## Is Nerdi safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Nerdi.

## Is Nerdi legit?

Nerdi: Research Papers has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Nerdi is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-18

• Try Nerdi Plus free for 7 days with the annual plan. Nerdi reminds you 2 days before the trial ends, so nothing renews by surprise.
• Small fixes and improvements.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-12

Nerdi now speaks your language: English, Türkçe, Deutsch, Français, Español and Português.
Eight new fields, including Mathematics, Chemistry, Economics and Arts & Humanities.
Thousands more papers, with landmark papers from the last ten years in search — and a classic among your Sunday picks.
A simpler field picker, smoother scrolling, and formulas in abstracts that read as plain text.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-09

• Notes and collections (Nerdi Plus): write a note on any paper and sort your library into collections. Both sync across your devices.
• Read offline (Nerdi Plus): download a paper's PDF and read it without a connection.
• Export your library as BibTeX or RIS for your reference manager (Nerdi Plus).
• Add papers from more links: arXiv, PubMed, publisher pages and DOIs, including brand-new arXiv preprints.
• Take 5 minutes: the top of your library shows the paper you were reading and opens it at your page.
• Share any paper, and copy a ready-made APA or BibTeX citation.
• Your library shows how far you've read in each paper.
• A cleaner feed with compact cards, a swipeable row of today's picks and more accurate field filters.
• Paper pages say whether you're reading the published version, the accepted manuscript or a preprint.
• Nerdi now runs on iOS 17 and later.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-05

No release notes.

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