Find the quote, the source, the note.
Academics, PhD students, and R&D teams drown in PDFs, interview recordings, lab notes, and half-remembered citations. MemX reads it all and answers in plain English, with a pointer back to the exact source.
Try MemX FreeThe hard part of research is rarely finding information once — it is finding it again. A paper you skimmed last spring, the one slide with the key number, the interview where the participant said the thing that now matters. In Nature's 2016 survey of more than 1,500 scientists, over 70% reported failing to reproduce another researcher's results, and respondents most often blamed selective reporting and pressure to publish. Good capture and recall is not busywork; it is the spine of credible work.
MemX captures the raw material as it lands — a scanned paper, a 60-second voice memo after a seminar, a photo of a whiteboard, a stack of conference business cards — and indexes everything so you can ask "which paper mentioned the 0.3 effect size in older adults?" or "what did interviewee 4 say about onboarding?" and get a synthesized answer with a citation to the source document. Search and AI answers need a network connection; capture works offline in the field or the lab.
How Researchers Use MemX
Paper & PDF capture with Q&A across your library
Document Scanner runs on-device OCR over any PDF or printout, extracting names, dates, and figures. Then Ask MemX runs RAG across the whole library so you can query papers in plain English instead of grepping a downloads folder.
Citation & quote recall, with the source attached
Ask "where did I read that claim about sample attrition?" and Ask MemX returns a synthesized answer with a citation pointing back to the exact document — so you can verify the quote before it goes in the manuscript.
Interview & seminar voice notes, transcribed
Voice to Memory records up to 60 seconds, transcribes via OpenAI Whisper with on-device auto-stop, and turns it into a searchable, multi-language note with action items. Capture a hallway insight before it evaporates.
Lab notes and whiteboard captures
Snap a protocol, a results table, or a whiteboard derivation. Photo Memory's on-device ML flags documents and IDs while keeping personal photos out, and everything becomes searchable alongside your papers and voice notes.
Deadline reminders on a recurring schedule
Say "grant report due Friday" or "follow up with interviewee 4 in three days" and MemX parses your own words into a recurring reminder schedule (an iCalendar RRULE) — nudges a day or two before plus on the day. You confirm the schedule it suggests, then each reminder fires as a timed push and the dates land on the in-app Calendar view alongside your captures.
Decisions buried in collaboration chats
WhatsApp Import ingests a co-author or lab-group chat archive; the backend processes the history asynchronously, extracting decisions, dates, and deliverables so the "who agreed to run that analysis?" question has an answer.
Features That Matter to Researchers
Document Scanner with on-device OCR
Scan any PDF, printed paper, or ID and MemX extracts the text, names, dates, and amounts on-device — turning a static page into a searchable memory you can later query. Smart-tag auto-extraction also reads Aadhaar, PAN, and driving-licence numbers (plus locker numbers and Wi-Fi passwords) out of ID-card screenshots that would otherwise sit unindexed in your camera roll.
Ask MemX — RAG with citations
Vector search and retrieval over every paper, voice note, photo, and chat. Answers are synthesized and come back with citations to the source document, so you can trace and verify every claim.
Voice to Memory with Whisper
Tap, talk for up to 60 seconds, and get a transcript indexed as a memory. On-device Silero VAD auto-stops when you finish, and transcription is multi-language for international fieldwork.
Recurring reminders + Calendar view
MemX turns free-form language into a recurring reminder schedule (an iCalendar RRULE) — "antibiotics twice daily for five days" becomes a full course of precisely-timed nudges, "draft due Wednesday" schedules reminders a day or two before plus on the day. You confirm the schedule MemX suggests, then each reminder fires as a timed push notification, and captured dates surface on the Calendar in the app's Calendar, Chat, and Memories tri-screen layout.
WhatsApp Import for collaboration history
Import a co-author or lab-group chat export and the backend works through the history asynchronously, surfacing the decisions, dates, and deliverables that get lost in long threads.
Encrypted, audit-logged, never used for training
AES-256 at rest with the master key in Google Cloud KMS hardware vaults, per-document encryption, and a tamper-proof audit log on every access. Your unpublished work is never used to train any AI model.
Frequently asked questions
Every paper, interview, and lab note — one ask away.
Capture as you research. Ask in English when you need the source. Free tier with 1,000 credits/month.
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