It reads the papers.
You read the insights.
Set keyword alerts once. Each week, receive an AI digest with TLDRs, emerging trends, and cross-paper analysis — drawn from 200M+ papers across every discipline via Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed.
Every paper is sourced and cited — Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed.
Why RAlert exists
The heritage
70,000+
PubCrawler users since 1999.
PubCrawler proved the model: set your alerts once, and the papers come to you. It was biomedical-only, predated modern AI, and its infrastructure has aged out. RAlert rebuilds that idea for today — every discipline, AI digests, and a modern interface.
Our philosophy
Mindful AI for
Human Depth.
Clarity before speed. Signal before noise. AI summarises — you still read the paper, write the synthesis, do the thinking. RAlert is a surfacer, not a substitute.
The pledge
Free.
Forever.
No subscription tier. No paywall waiting in the next release. No premium-only AI. The core service stays free for every researcher, everywhere — on the grant or off it.
What you get
Research alerts, reimagined with AI
Everything PubCrawler did well, plus the things 1999 couldn't give us.
Keyword alerts
Set an alert such as "yoga AND stress" once. Matching papers are fetched automatically, with no manual searching.
AI weekly digests
A weekly email with TLDRs, study-design breakdowns, emerging trends, and contradictions across studies.
All disciplines
200M+ papers across every field — medicine, computer science, psychology, the humanities, engineering, and more.
Delivered to your inbox
A personalised digest arrives each week. Stay current on your topics without checking a dashboard.
Personal library
Save papers, organise them into collections, add notes, and export to BibTeX or RIS for your reference manager.
Free to use
Free for every researcher. No subscription, no tiers. Built by a researcher, for researchers.
The core loop
How it works
Five steps. Set it up in under two minutes. Then ignore it forever — the papers will come to you.
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Sign in with Google
One click. No forms, no credit card, no verification email to chase.
- 2
Set keyword alerts
For example "mindfulness AND RCT" or "graph neural networks". Filter by discipline if you wish.
- 3
The crawler runs daily
Each night we check Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed for fresh matches to your alerts.
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Papers appear on your dashboard
A live feed with TLDRs, citation counts, and open-access PDF links — each source clearly cited.
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A weekly AI digest arrives
Every Sunday: summarised trends, contradictions across studies, and the papers worth your attention.
Why it’s free
No subscription.
No freemium bait.
PubCrawler was free for two decades, and that mattered. RAlert keeps that tradition: free for researchers, with no subscription and no feature gates.
How we keep the lights on
- Open scholarly data. Built on Semantic Scholar — the free, open academic graph — alongside OpenAlex and PubMed.
- Optional support. If RAlert saves you time, a one-off contribution helps cover running costs. It is entirely optional and never gates any feature.
- The wider RSMinds platform. If RAlert is useful, ResearcherMinds extends to the rest of your workflow. Exploring it is optional.
Stop hunting for papers.
Let them come to you.
About two minutes to set up, at no cost. You can delete your account and all your data at any time.