Findings vs Rayyan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Findings
This app serves as a digital lab notebook for researchers and scientists. It allows for easy tracking of experiments, results, and protocols, with features for timers, timestamps, and data synchronization. Research can be shared and collaborated on, ensuring data ownership and accessibility.
- Experiment tracking and organization
- Integrated timers and timestamps
- Protocol management and organization
- Automatic Dropbox synchronization
- Data export to PDF
- Collaboration and sharing features
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Findings is your lab notebook, reinvented. With Findings, you can easily keep track of your experiments and your research: your lab notebook is always with you and always up to date, be it on the field, at the bench, or at a conference. Findings helps you browse your results, reproduce crucial experiments, and assemble and publish your discoveries. Findings for iOS is even more powerful when used in combination with Findings for Mac (separate app available on our web site), and with Apple Watch. EXPERIMENTS. With Findings, all your experiments are in one place, neatly arranged and easy to browse. See what you have planned for today and this week. You can follow your progress, add a picture or a quick note, edit your experiment conditions, and never forget a step. Once finished, your results are safely stored alongside your notes and the protocols you used. All in one place, always saved, always accessible to your future self. TIMERS & TIMESTAMPS. You can attach a countdown timer, a stopwatch or a timestamp to any task in any of your experiments. All your running timers are accessible from the list of experiments and can easily be viewed in context with just one more tap. Thanks to local notifications, Findings will remind you when the time has come, whatever app you're using, wherever you are, online or offline. And of course, Apple Watch works great with timers too! PROTOCOLS. Protocols have a special place in Findings, where you can browse, edit, and organize them. Protocols are the primary building blocks of your experiments. You can add one protocol or multiple protocols to an experiment. Once integrated, a copy of the protocol is made, so you can modify it just for that one use, and leave the original untouched. Protocols can be organized by field, with a number of sufields available for each: biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, engineering, mathematics, cookery. Findings is for all the branches of science. SYNC. All your data can be automatically synced and backed up to Dropbox. Once linked to a Dropbox account, your experiments and protocols are shared with Findings on other iOS devices or on your Mac (separate Findings app for Mac available on our web site). SHARING AND COLLABORATING. Your research should not be in a silo. Findings can easily export any subset or all of your experiments and protocols to PDF, with all the attachments neatly arranged in folders. With our smart export/import features, you can also collaborate directly with Findings, and choose what to share, how to share it and when to share it. YOUR DATA IS YOURS. Unlike most electronic lab notebooks (ELN), your data is not stored on a server and remains under your control. Experiments and protocols are stored in an open-source format (PARStore) and are always with you, even when offline. And you can still get the best of both worlds: with Dropbox sync, you can keep your data in sync on multiple devices, while having an extra backup.
Rayyan
This app streamlines systematic literature reviews for researchers, enabling quick article screening and decision-making on mobile devices. It supports offline work and real-time collaboration, significantly reducing review time.
- Offline article screening
- Real-time collaboration
- Quick inclusion decisions
- Reference labeling
- Article filtering
- Configurable settings
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The Most Advanced Systematic Literature Review App If you conduct research, Rayyan is the app for you. It accelerates systematic literature reviews in support of all types of evidence-based research. Developed by researchers, for researchers, Rayyan offers a quick and easy way to screen articles on the go, and it even works offline! Key Features: - Work online for real-time collaboration. - Download your reviews to work on the go or offline. - Swipe left or right to make inclusion decisions quickly. - Label references by selecting or adding labels. - Filter references with the touch of a button. - Configure and save your settings to work however you like. Save Your Valuable Time, Reduce Your Frustration, and Increase Your Productivity Rayyan is designed to guide you through article screening by enabling quick decisions and label applications on each article. You won’t believe how easy it is to use! Researchers report reducing the time spent on their reviews by 50%-80% or more using Rayyan. Enjoying real-time collaboration with fellow researchers has never been easier. Rayyan records every decision for you. The app even functions when you’re offline, so you can always rely on Rayyan to make the most of your valuable time. We welcome your feedback about the app. You can contact us anytime via email at support@rayyan.ai or on Twitter @rayyanapp. Terms of Use: https://www.rayyan.ai/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.rayyan.ai/privacy_policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Findings at 83% against Rayyan's 37%. Findings also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 14). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Rayyan sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Findings asks for nothing beyond the download.
Findings holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Findings's written reviews are positive against 37% of Rayyan's.
Findings ships an update monthly, Rayyan every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Findings | Rayyan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (30 ratings) — better | 3.8 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better | 37.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nucleobytes BV | Rayyan Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
Findings
Rayyan
In-app purchases
Findings
No in-app purchases
Rayyan
- Student Monthly$9.991 Month
- Professional Monthly$14.991 Month
- Student Quarterly$24.993 Months
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- Essential Quarterly$24.993 Months
- Professional Quarterly$39.993 Months
- Advanced Quarterly$39.993 Months
- Student Annual$59.991 Year
- Essential Annual$59.991 Year
- Advanced Quarterly 2 Seats$79.993 Months
- Professional Annual$99.991 Year
- Advanced Annual$99.991 Year
- Advanced Quarterly 4 Seats$159.993 Months
- Advanced Annual 5 Seats$499.991 Year









