Workflow · Chrome extension
Top Unpaywall alternatives & why users leave
Here is what its unhappy users complain about, and the closest products that do the same job.
01Why users leave Unpaywall
Missing Feature33%
Bugs/Reliability17%
“doesn help with new zealand pages” source ↗
02The alternatives
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1. Lazy ScholarChrome extension
Academic research assistant - find full-text PDFs, citations, and analyze papers
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2. Scholarcy Browser ExtensionChrome extension
Summarizes research articles, creates interactive flashcards, highlights key points, links to open-access versions of each citation
03People asking for an alternative to Unpaywall
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