Now I Get It!
Scientific articles, explained.
Upload a scientific PDF and get back a shareable, interactive web page that explains it in plain language.
scientific papers published every year — all of them written for other scientists.
of research funded with public money — paid for by the same taxpayers who can't read the results.
Scientific papers are written for other scientists. This leaves out everyone else: the curious, the students, the journalists, the kids, the experts in adjacent fields, the taxpayers who paid for the research.
The result is a widening cultural divide around science — at exactly the moment we need the opposite. Now I Get It! exists to close it, one paper at a time.
Pick the lens before you translate. Or run it more than once — every translation is a separate page in your gallery.
Same structure and terminology as the paper, just reinterpreted for web. Use when you want a page that complements the original paper.
Jargon replaced. Context added. Concepts explained in plain language. The default for curious readers without the field background. Cross-disciplinary reading made fast.
The paper as a story. Narrative voice, illustrations, fun designs. Great for kids of all ages. Parents and teachers love this one.
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People use Now I Get It! in many fascinating ways.
You saw a paper on Twitter. You want to actually understand it.
Rapid orientation in an unfamiliar field. Skim three papers in the time it took to skim one.
Introduce a child to amazing science in language they can actually follow.
Professors and labs publishing readable web versions of their own papers.
VCs and analysts getting through a stack of technical papers without a PhD in every field.
Engineers translating dense architecture papers to share with teammates.
Convert an English paper into a Spanish web page — or any other language pair.
Drop any scientific paper — arXiv, bioRxiv, a journal PDF, your lab's preprint, a doctoral thesis. We handle papers up to about 20 MB.
Pick a reading mode — Native, Non-technical, or Kid-friendly. You have the option of choosing a theme and can even add custom instructions.
Your translation lands in your private gallery. From there you can view it, share it, add tags, and even make edits to text and fomulas.
Every translation you create lands in your personal gallery, visible only to you. Share when you want — not before.
Every translation lands in your personal gallery, visible only to you.
Flip a toggle to make any translation reachable by URL. Nothing else changes.
Flip another toggle to feature it in the Public Gallery for everyone.
Stack tags by field, by mode, by audience, by project. Filter with OR / AND.
Text and formulas are editable inline on any translation you own.
Most papers can be translated with one credit. Credits never expire. No subscription required!
All purchases are final. Credits are non-refundable, non-transferable, and do not expire.
A single credit costs $3. Save money by purchasing credit packs. No subscription required! You can process as many or as few papers as you like.
Yes — all translations are private by default. They sit in your personal gallery. From there you can make a page shareable via link or fully public (it will appear in the Public Gallery). Note: we take copyright seriously. Don't share translations from copyrighted works you don't own the rights to.
Yes. Text and formulas (KaTeX-rendered) are editable on any translation you own. Charts and diagrams are drawn by code at load time — to change one, re-process the PDF. You can also add custom instructions before translating.
We've translated thousands of papers. Some up to several hundred pages long and many in languages other than English. When you upload a paper, we calculate the number of credits required to translate it and ask for your approval before we start.