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Aftergleam - academic papers

A private reader for new research papers, ranked on your phone.

Free, with trade-offs
Android
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Free, with trade-offsconfirmed by F-Droid
License: GPL-3.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by F-Droid
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by F-Droid
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by F-Droid
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: No
Platforms: AndroidEstablished by Android: F-Droid
Publisher: Jakob Kreft
Latest version: 1.7.0 (6 November 2026)
Latest activity: 6 November 2026
Source code: github.com/jakobkreft/Aftergleam

Overview

Features described in its F-Droid listing: statistics and charts.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“arXiv: physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics and more” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
“Light and dark themes, and a serif font and text size of your choice for papers” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Aftergleam - academic papers is free, with trade-offs: it depends on one specific server to work.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No advertising
Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

Flagged by F-Droid: depends on the publisher’s online service

Sources and checks

Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) — 7 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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