Synapse Social vs ScrollPaper

Synapse is a personalized feed of newly published research papers. It helps researchers stay up to date without hopping between journals, emails and websites. Instantly see what’s new, what’s relevant, and why it matters to your work. Synapse Learns your research interests and continuously monitors journals, authors, and institutions, notifying you when relevant papers are published. All your research interests, sources, and discoveries in one place. No keyword spam. No endless searching. Just relevant research, every day. Built for scientists, clinicians, and researchers who want signal over noise. USE SYNAPSE TO • Create personalized research feeds • Instead of keyword matching, track your research questions • Follow alerts for journals, authors and institutions and see their papers in one place • View summaries and methodologies so you know whether a paper is worth opening • Track papers that are getting online attention • Read full papers on the go • One place to save and organize what you care about WHY RESEARCHERS USE SYNAPSE • Stop missing important papers related to your work • Reduce time spent checking multiple platforms • See what’s gaining momentum in your field • Understand research faster. Synapse extracts methodology, key results, summaries and study rigor • Connect with researchers working on similar problems • Connect your institution and reference manager ACCESS 200M+ scholarly works • Journal articles, preprints, conference papers, books, datasets, and more indexed via OpenAlex 60M+ open access works • One of the largest openly accessible research corpora globally, aggregated across publishers and repositories 15M+ preprints • From arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN, and other major preprint servers 250M+ authors & contributors • Disambiguated researcher profiles linked across publications and institutions 40K+ academic journals & venues • Including high-impact journals, society publications, and conference proceedings 100K+ institutions worldwide • Universities, hospitals, research centers, and labs mapped globally

Stop drowning in PDFs. ScrollPaper turns the latest research into a swipeable feed you can actually finish. Each paper becomes a digestible card with key findings, methodology, and AI-generated takeaways built for researchers, PhD students, postdocs, and anyone who wants to stay current without the information overload. FEATURES • Swipe through papers in your field like a research feed • AI Key Takeaways: The Finding, The Method, Why It Matters • Ask AI to summarise and compare multiple papers at once • Daily reading streaks and research missions to build a habit • Explore 20+ research fields and subfields • Follow your favourite journals and authors • Save papers into custom collections • 5,000+ curated papers across biomedical and life sciences BUILT FOR THE CURIOUS PhD students, postdocs, faculty, and lifelong learners who want to keep up with science on their own terms, on their own time.