About arXscope

Staying current on arXiv is harder than it should be. The daily digest emails cover broad categories — too broad to be useful for anyone working on a specific problem. Keyword search requires knowing what to look for. The papers most relevant to your work, using terminology slightly different from yours, don't show up unless you already know they exist.

But the papers we write already carry all the information about what matters for our research. They encode our methods, our vocabulary, our open problems. It would be sufficient to use them as a starting point.

I tested every tool I could find. Nothing did that. So I built arXscope.

What it is and what it isn't

arXscope is a "stay updated" layer, not a full literature search engine. Tools like Semantic Scholar exist for searching the full academic record — and they're useful for that. arXscope does something different: it takes your paper and finds recent work you didn't know to search for.

It covers the last 30 days of arXiv preprints — 14 days for citation likelihood mode. The narrow window is a deliberate choice: arXscope is built around the habit of checking in regularly, not searching exhaustively. It's also an honest cost constraint for now.

Why it's free

Research tools should be free for researchers. That's not a temporary policy or a freemium strategy. arXscope will always be free.

Where we are

arXscope publicly launched in early 2026. The project was recognised with an award at the University of Luxembourg's Market Innovation Camp. We're actively developing the platform and want to hear from researchers using it.

Write to us at [email protected].