AI-powered research discovery, summarization, and organization.
Open source alternative to Consensus & SciSpace.
Live Demo • Features • Architecture • Contributors
Qurious is an AI-powered research assistant that helps researchers, students, and curious minds find, understand, and organize scientific literature faster.
- Semantic Research Search – Search papers by meaning, not keywords.
- Chat with Papers – Ask questions and get grounded, contextual answers.
- AI Summaries & Insights – Auto-generated summaries and key takeaways.
- Lists & Research Folders – Organize papers into collections.
- Personal Annotations – Add notes and insights per paper.
- Tooling: Turborepo, Git
- Frontend: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
- Backend: Convex
- AI: Vercel AI SDK
- Auth: Clerk
- Analytics: PostHog
- Deployment: Vercel
- Node.js ≥ 18
- pnpm (via Corepack)
pnpm installThis installs all workspace dependencies and tooling.
pnpm run convex:loginCreate a .env.local file in apps/web:
CONVEX_URL=your_convex_url_hereRun all services:
pnpm devRun without browser or web API apps:
pnpm dev:no-ui
or
pnpm dev --filter=!browser-app --filter=!web-apiRun Convex backend only:
pnpm convex:devpnpm testThank you to all the amazing people who have contributed to Qurious! 🎉
Made with contrib.rocks.
We welcome contributions! Here's how you can help:
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch (
git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin feature/amazing-feature) - Open a Pull Request
Please read our Contributing Guidelines before submitting a PR.
To be added.
MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Website: quriousai.xyz
Twitter/X: @QuriousAI_
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