Comparison

Scollr vs Publication Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Scollr

Features
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Scollr is a personalized feed for discovering research papers from journals, preprint servers, and academic repositories. Follow the topics, authors, and journals that matter to you. Scollr learns from the signals you give it - what you follow, save, and read - to build a research feed that fits your interests. PERSONALIZED RESEARCH FEED See papers shaped by your topics, authors, journals, bookmarks, and reading signals. Two researchers in the same field can get meaningfully different feeds based on what they care about. FOLLOW TOPICS, AUTHORS, AND JOURNALS Track broad fields, niche topics, specific researchers, journals, and preprint sources. Refine your follows anytime as your projects change. PLAIN-LANGUAGE PAPER SUMMARIES Many papers include short TLDR summaries so you can quickly decide what deserves a deeper read. SAVE PAPERS TO COLLECTIONS Organize papers by project, theme, class, lab meeting, or read-later list. Keep collections private or share them publicly. DISCUSS RESEARCH Comment on papers, ask questions, and point other readers to related work. FOLLOWING, DISCOVER, AND LATEST Use Following for personalized papers, Discover for broader recommendations, and Latest for new arrivals in your fields. BUILT FOR SCHOLARS AND CURIOUS READERS Scollr is for PhD students, researchers, clinicians, engineers, students, and anyone who wants a better way to keep up with academic papers. Scollr indexes millions of papers from OpenAlex across disciplines, journals, preprints, and repositories. New papers are added daily. Free to use. No paywall. No ads.

About

Publication Tracker

Features
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Publication Tracker is a clean, fast publication tracker that helps you discover and follow scientific and medical literature. Browse new articles, filter by the authors you follow, and save the papers you want to read later โ€” all in one simple, distraction-free app.

Screenshots

Scollr4 screens
Publication Tracker3 screens

Verdict

The call

Scollr and Publication Tracker are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Scollr versus Publication Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScollrPublication Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size32 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChris ColpittsAbasalt Bahrami

In-app purchases

None

Scollr

No in-app purchases

None

Publication Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scollr free?
Scollr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Publication Tracker free?
Publication Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scollr or Publication Tracker have ads?
Neither Scollr nor Publication Tracker shows ads.

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