RelatedWorks

A native macOS and iOS/iPadOS app for Computer Science researchers.
Organize your research literature, take interconnected notes, and generate
LaTeX-ready Related Works sections — powered by AI.

• ✦ Project-based workspaces — one project per paper you're writing
• ✦ Import PDFs with AI-powered metadata extraction (macOS only)
• ✦ PDF Inbox via Share Extension — send PDFs from Safari or Files into a synced Inbox, then bulk import captured papers on macOS
• ✦ Search DBLP and arXiv to fetch bibliographic data automatically (macOS only)
• ✦ Semantic IDs — give each paper a short memorable tag like @Transformer or @BERT
• ✦ Cross-reference annotations — link papers using @mentions in your notes
• ✦ Citation Graph — compare @mentions, in-project references, and shared outside references per project (macOS only)
• ✦ Generate a streaming LaTeX-ready Related Works draft with one click (macOS only)
• ✦ Per-project generation prompts with presets for Survey, Research Paper, Tech Report, or Custom (macOS only)
• ✦ Export BibTeX entries fetched from DBLP or auto-generated (macOS only)
• ✦ iCloud Drive sync — keep your library in sync across Mac and iPhone/iPad
• ✦ Export, import, and open projects from Finder as .relatedworks files (macOS); import projects on iPhone and iPad
• ✦ Supports Ollama and Google Gemini (macOS only)
• ✦ Terminal UI (TUI) — keyboard-driven and SSH/headless use (macOS only, distributed via GitHub release)
• ✦ Automation and linking support via relatedworks://, read-only AppleScript, and Hookmark

Released binaries require macOS 26+ / iOS 26+ (built with Xcode 26).
Source builds require macOS 13+ / iOS 17+. Use Ollama locally or a Gemini API key.

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