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Desktop academic writing environment that keeps manuscript context and verifiable passages from a local PDF library in the AI writing loop to ground drafting, revising, and continuation in inspectable sources
Launch screenshots from Product Hunt, Jul 2026
A desktop academic writing environment that keeps manuscript context and verifiable passages from a local PDF library in the AI writing loop to address fake citations and loss of source fidelity during drafting. It sells to researchers and students working on literature reviews, thesis chapters, and other long-form academic writing where citations matter, offered direct to consumers with a free tier. It is positioned against general-purpose chatbots as a better fit when writing needs to stay anchored to papers actually read, and is delivered as a desktop application for macOS and Windows.
Key features
- Import reference PDFs to local library
- Searchable library with precise and fuzzy search
- Rich text and LaTeX synced in real time
- Live PDF preview with Tectonic compile
- Recall passages as cards with thumbnails
- Jump to exact page in original PDF
- Detect keywords and match library passages
- Select draft or reference passage as AI context
- Ask with context for writing assistance
- Polish with evidence-grounded suggestions
- Continue writing with cited evidence
- Bibliography sidebar and @ cite from library
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