LocalXiv
Research papers, explained visually.
Details
- External ID
- 1253468
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- LocalXiv
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
Description
LocalXiv turns arXiv and alphaXiv links into a paper library on your Mac. Read with adjustable fonts and layouts, explore visual overviews and cited explanations, and export papers or explanations for Kindle. Free and open source. Reading and export need no AI account; optional AI uses your own provider and API key.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- visual research paper summaries for researchers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes LocalXiv is an open-source paper reader interface wrapping the public arXiv/alphaXiv APIs, PDF rendering, local reading layout customizers, and standard LLM API calls with user-supplied keys.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #13 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Fouine · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Local PDF Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- ModernTex · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- texglot · github · 2026-09-09 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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