What's New

Reviews now show the paper's own figures and tables inline — Figure 3 appears under the paragraph that first cites it, with its caption and a link to the page in the PDF. Click any figure to enlarge it. Extraction runs on every new analysis; for papers you analysed earlier, tick “Paper figures” in Run stages.

The separate “Rerun review” button is gone: the Run stages dialog now regenerates the review too, with the same template, model, and instruction controls. Better still, you can rerun the review and rebuild translations, social posts, or the roast in one go — and they'll be generated from the new review, not the old one. Previous versions stay restorable, as always.

The settings page now walks you through protecting your own Gemini API key: create it in a dedicated Google Cloud project, set a budget alert, restrict it to the Generative Language API, and rotate it in one click if anything ever looks off. A leaked key can't read your data — but it can spend your money, so two minutes of setup buys a hard ceiling on the damage.

Reviews now consistently identify the specific models behind a paper — exact family, version, and size, and what role each played (backbone, baseline, judge). And when the authors deliberately don't say — increasingly common in safety and security work — the review calls that out explicitly, because a paper that hides its model is telling you something too.

Every paper gets a polite review. Almost none get an honest one. Paper Roast turns the pipeline on the paper itself and says the part everyone only mutters at the poster session: the baseline picked because the others didn't work, the ablation missing exactly where it would hurt, the claim in the abstract the experiments never actually test. It searches the web while it reads, so "this was done in 2019 and they don't cite it" is a receipt, not a hunch. Three intensities — Medium, Spicy, and Nuclear — and if it goes easy on them, tell it to try harder and rerun. Two rules it never breaks: it goes after the work and never the authors, and every hit has to point at a real line in the paper. Turn it on under Paper Roast when you start an analysis. Your own papers are allowed too. Bring a helmet.

Every paper in your library now has an Archive button next to Star and Delete. Archived papers move out of your main list into the Archived tab — and back again with one click — so you can keep finished work without deleting it.

Paper cards now show how many notes you've taken and how long the chat is, so you can tell which papers you've actually worked through. The header also got a Papers link back to your library, and one clear button for starting a new analysis instead of two.

Comics generated in Advanced mode now show the script that produced them, right under the image. Tweak a line of dialogue, drop a panel, or rename a character, then hit Redraw from script — the comic is redrawn from exactly your edited script, with no rewriting in between. The last mile of getting a comic just right.

Comic generation has a new Advanced mode: it writes the comic script first — cast, panels, and the exact words in every speech bubble — and only then draws it. That means far fewer duplicated panels, garbled lettering, and bubbles pointing at the wrong character. Pick it under Comic generation when you start an analysis, or when you regenerate a comic you're not happy with. Simple one-pass mode is still the default.

Every "additional instructions" box — for new analyses, review reruns, and single-stage regenerations like the X/Twitter thread — now accepts up to 5,000 characters and grows into a resizable multi-line field. Long, detailed prompts no longer get cut off.

Updating a review from chat now always shows the new version right away — previously, if you had opened the review editor, the page could keep showing the old text even though the update succeeded. If you have unsaved edits when a review changes underneath you, a banner now lets you choose between your draft and the latest version.

Got a paper that isn't on arXiv or OpenReview — or a camera-ready copy on your disk? Drop the PDF right on the Analyze a Paper page and it runs through the exact pipeline you configured, no workspace needed. Available on plans with direct PDF upload.

OpenReview recently put automated downloads behind a bot check, which broke analyses of OpenReview papers (including the ICML 2026 award papers). PaperLM now fetches those PDFs through OpenReview's official signed-in API, so forum links analyze normally again.

If a paper analysis ever stalls — usually when an image model has a temporary outage — it no longer hangs forever. It now retries automatically in the background, and the paper page surfaces a clear status with one-tap Re-run and Cancel so you're always in control.

Not happy with a review? Regenerate it with a different template, model, critique on or off, or your own instructions — straight from the paper page. The new review lands as a fresh version, and your previous one is kept and stays restorable, so you can compare and switch back anytime.

Turn a workspace into a blog post, essay, slide outline, or anything custom — generated from the materials you pick (sources, the multi-review, deep-research reports, even other documents), then refined, versioned, and reusable as an input to the next document. You can also save a whole chat answer, or just a selected passage, straight into a document.

No more regenerating from scratch. Steer the multi-review with instructions, refine a finished research report in place (a quick Edit, or send the agent back out for more), and hand-edit the multi-review, reports, or documents yourself when you know better — every change saved as a restorable version. Deep-research runs also got a clear, labeled run switcher.

Attach a specific deep-research report or saved document to a workspace chat so the model works directly against it — summarize it, compare it to your sources, and more.

After untold engineering heroics, sleepless nights, and at least one heated design review, we have done what every serious product must eventually do: added a light/dark theme toggle. Truly, civilization advances. It lives in the header, follows your system preference by default, and remembers your choice — so you can flip between blinding white and cozy dark to your heart's content. You're welcome.

Notes now render full markdown (math, code, lists, tables) and can expand to full screen. Saving a selection from chat keeps its formatting, and the side panel jumps to the prefilled note. Clearing a chat or deleting a note is also undoable now, and the chat-clear button moved so you can't wipe a conversation by mis-clicking.

Combine several papers in one workspace: add analyzed papers, paste arXiv/OpenReview/PDF links, or upload PDFs, then chat across all of them (with optional full-PDF grounding) and generate a cross-paper review that synthesizes the whole set — plus images, comics, and social posts. You can also run Google's Deep Research agent right from a workspace: it proposes a plan you refine, investigates the web, and returns a cited report you can keep chatting about.

Type @ in chat to pull another paper's review into the conversation and ask how the two compare — references stay in context until you remove them. You can also @-mention papers in the review instructions when starting a new analysis, and the new review will compare against and link to them.

Deleted papers now go to a Trash you can restore from, with automatic cleanup after 30 days. Mistakes are finally undoable.

Chat now lets you pick the model, toggle live web search and URL context, and renders rich formatted answers — in a cleaner tabbed, expandable side rail. Ask harder questions, get better-grounded answers.

Choose exactly which Gemini model powers each stage of the pipeline — speed where you want it, maximum reasoning where it matters. Reruns now build on your latest edited review.

Save your favorite pipeline configurations as named, reusable templates. Set it up once, reuse it on every paper.

Spotted something off? A floating report button lets you flag it in seconds — and we triage it fast.

Turn on Flex tier in Settings and your paper analyses run on Google's cheaper inference tier — roughly 50% less to produce the same review. The trade is patience, not quality: Flex waits for spare capacity, so a stage can take anywhere from one to fifteen minutes and a full run finishes later than usual. If Flex capacity runs out mid-run we fall back to the standard tier automatically, so nothing stalls or fails. Chat stays on the standard tier either way, because that's the part where waiting actually hurts.

We rebuilt the backend on Go with a dedicated queue-based worker — analyses are faster, survive cold starts, and never get stuck or double-run. Failed stages now show clear, human-readable errors instead of cryptic codes.

Paid plans run pipeline stages in parallel — your full review, visuals, and social posts land dramatically faster.

Pick from curated visual style presets per language, or define your own. Make summaries that match your taste.

Analyze papers from custom PDF URLs, not just arXiv and OpenReview.

Reviews are now powered by versioned, tunable prompt bundles — more consistent, higher-quality output.

Read the paper side-by-side with its review, with inline highlights and annotations.

Talk to any paper, keep your own notes, and edit reviews with live preview — every change versioned so you can always go back.

Turn dense papers into shareable comic-panel summaries — perfect for slides and social.

Star, archive, and switch between list and card views with thumbnails. Build a knowledge base you'll actually revisit.

Full LaTeX math, rich markdown, and HTML rendering — papers look the way they should.

The first paper-analysis pipeline goes live — paste an arXiv link, get a structured, multi-agent review. From the creator of ArXivIQ (200+ AI paper reviews).