Read, annotate and organize research papers. Your library is a folder of plain files: PDFs with their annotations, and paper.json.
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updated 7 Oct 2026
About Xivly
> Xivly is a calm reader for research papers: read, annotate and organize your PDFs, without distraction.
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> • Highlight, box, draw, add arrows and text, and write notes in the margin. Annotations are saved inside the PDF, so any PDF reader sees them.
> • Organize papers with categories, tags and read/unread status; search across your library.
> • Click citations and figure references to preview them in place; follow links between papers.
> • arXiv-aware: add a paper from its arXiv link; see its Hugging Face page, code and related models.
> • Open in Xivly: right-click an arXiv, alphaXiv or Hugging Face paper, or any PDF link, to add it to your library and start reading.
> • Light and dark themes, keyboard shortcuts for everything.
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> Private by design: no account, no tracking, no server. Your library stays on your computer, in the browser's storage or a folder you choose.
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> Xivly is open source and also available as a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux: https://github.com/julien-blanchon/xivly