alphaXiv vs COLM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
alphaXiv
This app helps researchers stay updated with the latest AI studies from arXiv. It offers AI-powered summaries, literature reviews, and visual explanations of complex papers. Users can also annotate papers and track their research interests.
- Trending research feed
- AI-powered literature reviews
- Interactive paper reader with notes
- AI Visual Blogs for paper explanations
- Personalized research recommendations
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alphaXiv offers a suite of AI features built on top of arXiv that help you keep up with and quickly understand the latest research. Trending Feed Discover the most relevant AI research, curated by our community of hundreds of thousands of readers each week. See papers tailored to your specific research interests with quick informative blurbs to help you decide which papers to delve deeper. Library Bookmark favorite papers, keep track of your research and organize your work. Paper is missing on alphaXiv? Upload it into library and gain access to the same assistant and AI Overviews as the publically available papers. AI Assistant Understand the latest AI research with AI. Ask questions like 'What are the latest breakthroughs in RL fine-tuning?' and get comprehensive literature reviews with trending papers automatically included. Paper Reader View papers with highlights, personal notes, and quick access to our AI assistant. Come back anytime to a paper to see what parts you marked as important, any notes that you left for yourself, and your conversations with our assistant. AI Visual Blogs Turn any complex paper into clear visual explanations. Generate beautiful research blogs with figures, equations, and key insights from the paper with just one click. Join hundreds of thousands of weekly readers on alphaXiv to transform your research output. Whether you’re a curious undergrad or an applied research scientist, reading papers won’t ever feel the same again.
COLM
This app serves as the official platform for the Conference on Language Modeling. It provides access to information and resources related to the conference.
- Official conference app
- Language modeling information
- Conference resources
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The official app of the Conference on Language Modeling
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: COLM at 5.0 against alphaXiv's 4.7. COLM also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). alphaXiv's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
COLM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: alphaXiv has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
alphaXiv ships an update every 4 days, COLM fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | alphaXiv | COLM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | alphaXiv Inc. | Anthony Manzo |
In-app purchases
alphaXiv
No in-app purchases
COLM
No in-app purchases
