Products
Tools for the paper, from first draft to accepted.
Two Mac apps, a set of pay-per-use manuscript checks, and free tools, all made by one researcher who writes and submits papers too. Prices are listed here, and all on one page. None of it needs an account.
Which one do I need?
Start from where the paper is
- Writing it in LaTeX on a Mac
- ModernTex, with the free BibTeX Validator for the bibliography.
- Starting from a venue's template
- The free LaTeX templates, each with an optional reminder a week before the deadline.
- About to submit
- Paper Review. It includes the Anonymity Check. Add a Cover Letter for $2.
- Submitting to a double-blind venue on a budget
- Anonymity Check and Citation Gap Analysis, $5 together.
- Revise and resubmit
- Revision Review for the manuscript and Response to Reviewers for the letter.
- Keeping track of where everything is
- Vitae, free.
- Reading the literature
- Scholar Utility Belt in Chrome, and the Daily Digest.
Buying for a lab or department? See volume pricing, invoices and data handling.
Looking for books on writing, LaTeX or statistics? See the research desk.
Not sure, or want something that isn't here? Email ben@purplelink.llc. I read and answer every message.
ModernTex
A native LaTeX editor for Mac, built around the manuscript rather than the file. Source and PDF stay in sync, citations autocomplete from your .bib, and a submission check runs before you upload. Version 1.3 adds a visual table editor and TikZ designer.
Mac
Keep your academic record in one place
Free
Vitae
Track journal and conference submissions, grants, projects and collaborators, and generate your CV from that record. Local-first, notarized, macOS 15 or later.
Download Vitae →
$3 a month or $24 a year
Vitae Plus
Optional. Adds reports, Word templates, a revision workspace and Shareables on top of the free app. Seven days free before the first charge.
See what Plus adds →Before you submit
Manuscript checks, paid per use
Upload, pay once through Stripe, and get the result in minutes on a page that updates itself. The file and the result are deleted from our servers soon after you open the result. If a result reads as low quality, email within 14 days and the price is refunded.
Paper Review
Four AI reviewers read the manuscript the way a panel would: methods, statistics, data integrity and the editor's view. Every reference is checked against CrossRef and the figures are scanned. Markdown report and annotated PDF.
Start a review → $6Response to Reviewers
A reviewer panel reads your response letter against the original comments and flags missing or hand-waved replies.
Check my response → $3Citation Gap Analysis
Finds prior work the manuscript should cite and doesn't, with a reason for each.
Find the gaps → $2Anonymity Check
Flags names, institutions, funders, IRB numbers and self-citations that break double-blind review. Included free with Paper Review.
Scan my manuscript → $2Cover Letter
A cover letter drafted from your abstract and the target journal. The manuscript itself is never uploaded.
Draft my letter → $2Revision Review
Checks whether the revised manuscript actually addressed the findings in your original Paper Review.
Check my revision → 5 for $38 · 20 for $150Volume packs
Paper Review tokens for labs and repeat submissions, emailed at purchase. They never expire.
See pack pricing → $5Resume Review
An ATS screener, a hiring manager and a recruiter read your resume before you apply for a research job.
Review my resume →Free
No account, no charge
Scholar Utility Belt
Journal quality badges, citation velocity, h-index and g-index, lineage trees and retraction alerts, added to Google Scholar. About 1,000 researchers use it; 4.5 out of 5 on the Chrome Web Store.
See the extension → Free · in your browserLaTeX and citation tools
Compile LaTeX to PDF, diff two versions, validate a .bib file, generate citations, convert to and from Word, and more. Files are processed in memory and never stored.
Browse the tools →iPhone
Away from the desk
Free on the App Store
GlobePin
A map of every place you have been and every flight you have taken, with stats, travel goals and shareable cards. Syncs through iCloud, no account.
See GlobePin →
In development
Haea
Health analytics that run entirely on your iPhone: sleep, nutrition, training and biometrics, with nothing sent to a server. Join the waitlist.
Join the waitlist →For builders
Kits
Production-tested automation systems, each with a setup guide: a content pipeline, a static-site monetization stack and a clip pipeline. One-time purchase, from $10.