Baby Books vs Wispar
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Baby Books
Make your own books Create your book, search for wiki pages, watch images and text flow onto your pages. Learn with your kids Interested in biology? Want to build a book for you and your kids to learn more about it? Try creating a new book, add some pages by searching for Organism, Animal, Plant, and then Fungi, then watch your book come to life. Share your creations Generate a PDF and email it to a friend, or print it for your own physical book. Limitations This is still in the early stages of development. Some things which are on the roadmap: Proper attribution for Wikipedia sources in resulting PDFs.More intuitive swipe controls (e.g. for changing pages when reading, or for re-ordering pages in a book).Select your favourite image(s) from a wiki page instead of being forced to use the one the app selected.Sharing of books between Android devices to support remixing and improving others books (rather than just PDF export as we have now). Donate via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors to support further development.
Wispar
Wispar is your personal research companion — a privacy-friendly app for exploring academic journals and scientific articles. Using the Crossref and OpenAlex APIs, Wispar helps you stay updated on your favourite journals. Follow journals to receive the latest research abstracts in your main feed — no account required. - Search scholarly articles and journals - Follow journals to stay updated - Add custom keywords and queries to your feed - Access open-access articles via Unpaywall - Use EZproxy to unlock paywalled research - Chat with AI about your downloaded papers - Send articles to your Zotero library - View graphical abstracts - Translate abstracts to your preferred language - Built for researchers, students, and the academically curious Wispar is user-friendly, open-source, and designed to respect your privacy. As a community-built project, contributions are always welcome! If you'd like to contribute, please visit our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Scriptbash/Wispar If the app isn't available in your language, please consider helping with translations by visiting our hosted Weblate instance: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/wispar
| Feature | Baby Books | Wispar |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesProductivity | NotesProductivityAI Assistant |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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