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Fold papers, web pages, files, and AI replies into five levels of detail. Zoom from an overview to the original text.

Why this job: works in the areas we cover, but does not say which job it does

What it does

  • Words that travel. As you zoom, every word that stays slides to its new place and the rest fade around it.
  • Zoom under your fingers. Stop halfway, turn back, or open one paragraph alone.
  • Beside the original. Open a paper's or a PDF's own pages next to the text, each paragraph shown where it stands on its page.
  • Ask AI about exactly what you read. Select a passage, or ask about the whole text: the short answer comes first, and each point links to the paragraph it rests on. With Look it up on the web, an agent on your computer searches the web too.
  • Your language. Read in many languages, translated sentence by sentence, with every formula as typeset. A document's own levels are written in its own language.

Get started

python3 -m pip install textfold
python3 -m textfold serve
Maintenance
Active
Last commit 3 days ago
Stars
1,019
+93 this week
Licence
Apache-2.0
Allows business use
Downloads for
2 systems
Mac, Windows
Latest version
v0.10.50
Released 3 days ago
Built with
Python
61% of the code

Is it looked after?

Contributors
6
Last 90 days
Issues
88% closed
7 still open
Pull requests
56 merged
3 waiting
Releases
46
30+ in the last year

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Download files, v0.10.50

  • Mac2 files, 48 downloads
  • Windows1 file, 149 downloads

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Languages

  • Python 61%
  • JavaScript 26%
  • CSS 8%
  • TypeScript 5%

Topics

  • arxiv
  • llm
  • local-first
  • open-source
  • paper-reader
  • research-papers
  • semantic-zoom
  • translation

Project record

  • JobOther AI tools
  • StatusListed
  • Commits560
  • Forks90
  • Watching5
  • Stars in 28 days+804
  • CreatedOct 4, 2026
  • First seen by usNov 7, 2026
  • CheckedNov 12, 2026

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