Avera

Features

Avera helps you collect papers, take notes, run screening workflows, and draft manuscripts in one place. Your library and notes live on your computer by default. Sign in when you want teams, cloud sync, and subscription features.

Research Library

v0.1

Collect papers, search PDFs, organise collections, and cite from one library

  • Import PDFs, DOIs, BibTeX, RIS, and PubMed exports
  • Search across titles, authors, and full text inside attached PDFs
  • Organize papers into collections
  • Read PDFs inside the app with in-tab viewer
  • Copy formatted in-text citations and reference-list entries from the library (multiple citation styles)
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Notebook

v0.2

Organise notes beside your papers — folders, wiki links, and essay drafts

  • Organize notes in folders
  • Link notes together with wiki-style links and heading references
  • Reference papers from your library directly inside a note
  • Create paper-linked notes from the library
  • Open notes in tabs alongside library and PDF views
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Reviews

v0.1

Screen on your own with Include, Exclude, and Maybe — plus live PRISMA previews

  • Run title-and-abstract screening with Include, Exclude, and Maybe decisions
  • Preview diagrams that update as screening progresses
  • Auto-tally PRISMA counts from live screening decisions
  • Generate PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams from live screening data
  • Create review projects with custom inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Review Methodology Modules

v0.1

Choose the review type that matches your research question

  • Pick a review methodology when creating a new project — systematic, scoping, rapid, or umbrella
  • Complete a Review Setup wizard before screening (title, research question, criteria, optional PICO)
  • Scoping review module — broader inclusion, charting questions, PRISMA-ScR default
  • Rapid review module — timebox, limited databases, single-reviewer defaults, abbreviated checklist
  • Show module-specific onboarding checklists with phased next steps
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Research Writer

v0.1

Structured drafts with library citations, auto bibliography, and Word or LaTeX export

  • Write in a structured academic editor separate from the Notebook
  • Insert citations from your library via search picker or inline trigger
  • Auto-generate a bibliography from cited papers
  • Export manuscripts to Word (DOCX) with citations, tables, figures, and bibliography
  • Export manuscripts to LaTeX with a references.bib bundle and figures folder
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Browser Connector

Beta

Save references from the web without copy-pasting metadata

  • Chrome extension that detects references on publisher sites, Google Scholar, PubMed, and many other sources
  • Import a detected reference straight into your Avera library
  • Show a floating save banner on pages with detectable references
  • Detect PDFs from direct PDF tabs, citation_pdf_url meta tags, and embedded viewers
  • Fall back to metadata-only import when PDF capture fails
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CLI (via Desktop App)

v0.1

Automate library, screening, and manuscript workflows through the desktop app

  • Use the avera CLI bundled with the desktop app — same database, files, and version as the running app
  • Import PDFs and DOIs from the command line
  • Search papers and notes with the same query syntax as the app
  • Install or remove the avera command on your PATH from desktop app Settings
  • Check status, paths, record counts, and whether the app is running
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AI Agent MCP

v0.1

Connect Avera to Cursor or Claude Desktop from Settings

  • Register Avera as an MCP server from desktop app Settings — Cursor or Claude Desktop
  • Let agents search and import into your library, work with notes, run screening, and draft or cite in Writer on your local data
  • Use the same sign-in and subscription gates as the desktop app
  • Connect and disconnect from Settings; preserves other MCP servers already in each config file
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Cloud, Teams & Billing

v0.1

Sign in for teams, sync, and subscription features

  • Continue using local library and notebook when signed out or on the free tier
  • Use a free tier locally — up to 10 papers and 10 notes without subscription
  • Subscribe via Stripe Checkout for unlimited library size and cloud features
  • Sign in with Google
  • Set a unique @username and display name
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