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TikTok but for Scientific Papers

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📱 What if TikTok Existed for Scientific Papers?
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It does. And it has on-device AI, PDF chat, and automatic quizzes. 🎓

🔍 What Is It?
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An app that brings TikTok’s infinite feed experience to academic papers — immersive cards, vector-similarity recommendations, and you never see the same paper twice.

✨ Key Features
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📰 Smart Feed

  • Vector-similarity powered recommendations
  • Ranking by interests, trending, freshness, and community engagement
  • Full-screen immersive paper cards

💬 Chat with Any Paper

  • RAG pipeline over the full PDF text
  • 100% on-device — your data never leaves
  • Apple Intelligence or local MLX models

🧠 Auto Quiz

  • Generates comprehension questions from the paper
  • Actively learn while you read

💡 Explanation in a nutshell
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This app reimagines how researchers and students discover and consume scientific literature, applying social media engagement mechanics (infinite feed, visual cards, personalized recommendations) to academic papers. Most notably: paper chat and quizzes work completely on-device using Apple Intelligence or local MLX models.

More information at the link 👇

Also published on LinkedIn.
Juan Pedro Bretti Mandarano
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Juan Pedro Bretti Mandarano