Oleafly

Open, local-first infrastructure for research, writing, and publishing.

Take your next paper all the way. Oleafly brings writing, literature search, citations, figures, and AI agents into one desktop workspace. Keep your source and compiled PDF side by side, with every project in ordinary files you own.

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Free and open source. macOS, Windows, and Linux. No Oleafly account required.

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Start with a journal article, a thesis, or a talk. Bring an existing manuscript or choose a template, then keep the work around it close:

• Search scholarly indexes, import your reference library, and cite a source while you write.
• Edit equations and figures, navigate a long manuscript, and check spelling and grammar locally.
• Ask the assistant to revise a section, fix a build, or turn an idea into an editable diagram using the files in your project.
• Compile, inspect the PDF, and run submission checks before exporting the paper or packaging its source.

Give a Research Task a focused brief: check the sources behind a claim, analyze a dataset, or revise the methods section. The agent works in a separate copy of the project while you keep writing. Review the changed files, apply what you want to keep, and compile the result. The task stays with the project.

Bring Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or another supported CLI agent through its own account. You can also connect a hosted model or use Ollama locally. Connect external assistants through MCP, or use the editor with AI switched off.

Use research skills for literature reviews, claim checks, and responses to reviewers. Save a procedure of your own for the next project.

Research Tasks and CLI agent support are in beta. See the research workflow.

Your manuscript, sources, and figures live in plain folders on your computer. Successful compiles save checkpoints you can return to. Use Git when you want commits, diffs, and shared history, with GitHub sync available in the app.

The desktop app is free under AGPL-3.0. Open your files in another editor whenever you want. Your work stays useful beyond any one app.

Bring a paper you're working on. Tell us where you get stuck. A useful bug report, a template for your field, or a contribution to the editor can make the next researcher's day easier.