| Problem | Reality | Loss |
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Paper Management | PDFs everywhere. Notes nowhere. | 127 PDFs lost |
Literature Review | Same paper. Third time this week. | 8 hrs/week |
Writing | Cursor blinks. Nothing happens. | 40% time staring |
Citations | Wrong format. Again. | 12% errors |
Deadlines | Everything breaks at once. | 72hr before deadline |
Don't do literature reviews
in scattered browser tabs.
Fynman helps you read PDFs, synthesize findings across papers, and draft manuscripts with accurate citations - all on your desktop. Your data stays on your device.
Cut literature review and manuscript drafting timings by half.
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Your research tools are broken.
Here's what's stealing your time
How Fynman works
Import your library, find the gaps, synthesize the field, and draft the review — in one place.
Collect & Organize
Import papers, manage PDFs, and organize your research library
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Analyze & Review
AI-powered literature review and cross-paper analysis
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Write & Publish
Draft manuscripts with AI assistance and perfect citations
Fynman solves this with desktop AI that thinks like a senior researcher
Speed
What took 6 months of manual reading now takes 6 weeks
Depth
AI reads every sentence, remembers every claim, catches every contradiction
Accuracy
Zero hallucinations. Every insight traced back to exact paper and page number.
From Scattered to Systematic in 3 Steps
Before
📄 Paper 1
📄 Paper 2
📄 Paper 3
📄 Paper 4
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After
🎯 Research Workspace
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Import Your Research Library
One click. All your papers. Import from Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote. Or just drag PDFs. Fynman organizes everything, extracts metadata, makes it searchable. Your computer. Your data. Done.
1,000 papers in 10 minutes
AI Identifies What You'd Miss
AI reads everything. At once. Spots patterns you can't. Finds contradictions. Reveals gaps. Pick your AI: OpenAI, Claude, or go offline. Every insight? Traced to exact paper and page. No BS.
Write with Your Library at Your Fingertips
Type. Get citations instantly. Beat writer's block with AI that knows your research. Export anywhere: Word, LaTeX, Google Docs. Perfect formatting. Every time. Writing papers just got faster.
How Fynman compares
An honest look at your options for research tools
| Tool | Fynman | Zotero | Mendeley | Notion | Obsidian | ChatGPT | Word + Copilot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End-to-End Workflow | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Deep AI on PDFs | ✓ | ~ | ✗ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Systematic Review Support | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Works Offline | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ~ |
| Built for Research | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cross-Paper Synthesis | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Project & Task Management | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Custom Research Agents | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ |
Fynman
Desktop App- 🔒 Privacy: Local library, your key
- 🤖 AI Analysis: Full papers
- 📵 Offline: Yes
- 💰 Price: $49/year
- 🎯 Best for: Complete workflow
- 📋 Project Management: Built-in
- 🤖 Custom Agents: Research-focused
- ⚠️ Limitation: Desktop only
ChatGPT/GPT-4
AI Assistant- 🔒 Privacy: Cloud only
- 🤖 AI Analysis: Manual upload
- 📵 Offline: No
- 💰 Price: $20/month
- 🎯 Best for: General Q&A
- 📋 Project Management: None
- 🤖 Custom Agents: Custom GPTs
- ⚠️ Limitation: No paper mgmt
Every other AI research tool uploads your papers to their servers to read them.
Fynman is different. Your library stays on your machine — and the AI runs on your own key, like VS Code and Copilot.
Your library stays yours. AI on your own key.
⚠️ Cloud research tools
- Your papers uploaded to their servers →
- Processed on their infrastructure →
- The vendor sees everything you upload →
- Your work can train their models →
- Export limits and lock-in →
✅ Fynman
- Your library and PDFs stay on your device
- Fynman never receives or stores your papers
- AI runs on your own Anthropic/OpenAI key
- Your text goes only to the provider you choose
- Standard formats — export anytime
Local library
Your own AI key
No vendor uploads
Open formats
The economics of research time
Your researchers spend 4.5 months per year on literature review. What's that worth?
Institutional
Average researcher salary:
$85,000
Time spent on literature review:
37% of research time
Cost of inefficient literature review:
$31,450 per researcher per year
Fynman pays for itself by month 2
🔒 30-day pilot program • No long-term commitmentIndividual Researcher
$98
$49/annum
50% off early access
Questions researchers ask
Everything you need to know about Fynman
How is this different from ChatGPT or Claude?
ChatGPT analyzes one document at a time and requires uploading. Fynman analyzes patterns across your entire library simultaneously while keeping everything local. You can use any AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or local models) for the analysis.
Will this work with my 1,000+ paper library?
Yes. Fynman handles libraries up to 10,000 papers smoothly. Initial indexing takes 2-3 hours for large libraries, then everything is instant.
Can I use this for my systematic review?
Absolutely. Fynman excels at systematic reviews — screening papers against criteria, extracting standardized data, identifying methodological patterns, and creating PRISMA-compliant reports.
What about sensitive or unpublished research?
Your PDFs and notes stay on your device — Fynman never uploads or stores them. When you run AI analysis, the text is sent to your own AI provider (Anthropic/OpenAI) using your API key, so it reaches only the provider you choose — never Fynman, and never for training.
Does it work with Zotero/Mendeley?
Yes! One-click import from Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote. Your tags, collections, and notes transfer automatically. Continue using Zotero for reference management while Fynman handles analysis.
Do you really never see my data?
Correct. Fynman has no servers that store your research, so we never receive it. AI runs on your own provider key, so your papers go only to the provider you choose.
What about AI analysis - doesn't that require cloud?
Yes — like VS Code with Copilot, the app is local but the AI runs in the cloud on your own key. You bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, so the text you analyze goes only to that provider, never to Fynman.