Bioz vs Folio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bioz
This app provides scientific researchers with access to deep experimentation knowledge extracted from millions of peer-reviewed articles. It uses AI to analyze materials and methods sections, offering objective rankings, techniques, and protocol conditions for reagents, kits, assays, and instruments.
- AI-driven data analysis
- Experimentation knowledge extraction
- Objective ranking scores
- Reagent, kit, assay, and instrument data
- Article snippets and techniques
- Protocol conditions
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Join 1+ million researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates - If you are a scientific researcher is academia or biopharma, Bioz is your resource for deep article-based experimentation knowledge. Bioz uses advanced A.I. to analyze and structure data from within the materials and methods sections of 27 million peer-reviewed articles. On Bioz.com, you can view objective ranking scores, article snippets, techniques, protocol conditions, and more, for 300+ million reagents, kits, assays and instruments. Bioz is the world's largest and most comprehensive scientific recommendation engine, and is FREE for all researchers. Download the Bioz app today, and start to Bioz It!
Folio
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Folio turns staying current with research into something you actually look forward to. Instead of cluttered tables and endless tabs, you get one paper per screen — swipe up for the next, just like your favorite feed. Pulled live from the open-access world: arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, and Semantic Scholar. Whether you're a researcher, a grad student, or just science-curious, Folio meets you where your attention already is. WHY FOLIO • One paper at a time - a calm, full-screen feed instead of noisy lists • Real coverage - millions of preprints and papers across physics, biology, medicine, CS, and beyond • Math that renders - equations display properly, not as broken symbols • Save & tag - build your own library and organize it your way • Tune your feed - pick the sources and topics you care about • Fast and private - your library and settings live on your device, no account required OPTIONAL AI (BETA) Want a hand making sense of a paper? Folio's optional AI features can: • Summarize at your level - explain-like-I'm-12, standard, or expert • Ask the paper - get answers grounded in the abstract • Translate - read papers in your language • Synthesize - pull themes across a set of papers AI is completely optional and off by default. The whole app works without it. During the beta, AI runs on your own Anthropic Claude API key, stored only on your device — there's no subscription and nothing to buy inside the app. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. Folio doesn't sell your data and doesn't show ads. Your saved papers, tags, and settings stay on your device. Science moves fast. Folio helps you keep up - one swipe at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Folio at weekly against Bioz's every 3 months. Bioz's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bioz ships an update every 3 months, Folio weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bioz | Folio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bioz Inc. | Saksham Gupta |
In-app purchases
Bioz
No in-app purchases
Folio
No in-app purchases









