It's three things in one place: a writing studio to craft your work, a publishing house that gives it a permanent, provable identity and lets you sell it, and a reader where anyone can read, listen to, or translate it. You write it, prove it's yours, publish it, and reach the world — without leaving the app.

No. The Free plan lets you write, compare documents, and read published works with offline narration — no card needed. You only pay when you want to publish and sell your own work, which opens on Pro. Think of Free as your workshop, Pro as your printing press and storefront.

Write or paste your work in the studio, click Publish, fill in a title and a short abstract, choose whether it's free or for sale, and pick who can see it. The moment you confirm, your work gets its permanent ID, timestamp, fingerprint and certificate — automatically. That's it.

Every published work gets an ID like RS-2026-000042. It's yours forever and always points to your work — you can cite it, put it on your CV, or share the link. Unlike a normal web link, it can never break or be taken over. Free with every published work.

A hash is a unique fingerprint of your exact words, made by a standard method called SHA-256. If even one character of your work changes, the fingerprint changes completely. So it's mathematical proof that your published work hasn't been secretly altered — and that a later "copy" doesn't match your original. Free, automatic, on every work.

A clean, downloadable certificate that shows your title, author name, the content fingerprint, and the exact date and time your work was recorded — signed by ReScholar. It's the shareable, human-readable version of your proof. Great to attach to a grant application, a dispute, or just to have on file. Free — download it any time from your work.

When you publish, your work's fingerprint is also stamped into the Bitcoin blockchain using OpenTimestamps — a free, public, tamper-proof clock that nobody controls. This is the strongest answer to the sceptic who says "how do I know ReScholar didn't just backdate this?" Anyone in the world can verify the date independently, without trusting us. Free, on every published work. It shows as "pending" for a few hours, then upgrades to a full blockchain proof — that's normal.

The free proof (ID + hash + certificate + blockchain anchor) is excellent for proving priority — "I had this first." A DOI does something different: it makes your work officially citable and discoverable in the global scholarly system that journals, universities and reference managers all use. If you want your paper to count on your academic record, be found by other researchers, and sit alongside published journal articles — that's what the DOI is for.

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is the permanent, worldwide-recognised address for a piece of research — the same kind of identifier every published journal article has. It never breaks, it's indexed globally, and it's what makes your work properly citable by other academics. It's the difference between "a link to my paper" and "an officially registered publication."

A DOI costs 25 credits, minted once per work. Open your published research work (paper, preprint, thesis or whitepaper), click Mint DOI, and confirm. It registers with a public archive and appears on your work within moments. You need a short abstract first — that becomes the public page your DOI points to.

Yes. The DOI points to your work's public page (title + abstract), while the full text you're selling stays behind your paywall — exactly how paid journal articles work. So a paper can be free with a DOI, or for sale with a DOI. The DOI is about official recognition; your price is a separate choice.

When you list the ReScholar works your paper cites, ReScholar links them together — and shows, on each work, who cited it. Over time this builds a living map of how ideas connect. You can add references by hand, or click Auto-detect to pull ReScholar IDs and DOIs straight from your text (free), or use AI-assist to suggest sources from your prose (a few credits, always verify them).

You keep 80% of every sale. ReScholar keeps 20%, which covers payment fees and the platform. Set your own price in rupees and dollars; earnings land in your wallet and you withdraw to your bank or UPI once you pass the minimum. (For comparison, most stores take far more.)

Readers see your title, abstract and a generous preview (the first 600 lines) for free, then pay once to unlock the full text and own it permanently. You choose the price. It works the same for a research paper or a full book.

Buying unlocks the full text to read and own forever, and pays the author. A listen pass (10 credits) is just for the Doc Listener — it unlocks online voices and translation for that one work, without buying the book, and doesn't pay a royalty. It's for people who want to hear or translate a work rather than own the text. Pro members get listening free.

Yes — the Doc Listener narrates any work aloud in a natural voice, highlighting each line as it's spoken. Tap any word to jump the voice there. Free works come with offline narration; Pro adds richer online voices.

Open a work in the reader, pick a language, and ReScholar streams a translation alongside the original — across major world languages and many Indian languages — so you can read or listen in the language you think in. Available on Pro, or with a listen pass on a paid work.

Your personal shelf. Add any work from the feed and it's saved in one place, ready to read, hear or translate whenever you come back — like bookmarks that carry straight into the Doc Listener.

Free — write, compare, read. Lite — unlimited writing, all templates and exports. Pro — everything in Lite plus the ability to publish, sell (keep 80%), and use online voices, translation, AI assistance and author analytics. Max — adds document merging, pipelines and bring-your-own-model. Publishing and selling are the big reasons to move to Pro.

Credits are a small top-up wallet for premium one-off actions: minting a DOI (25), a listen pass (10) on a paid work, AI reference suggestions (a few), and advanced AI text and image generation. You buy them in packs, and they never expire. Subscriptions cover your everyday tools; credits cover these occasional extras.

Yes — Founder's Year gives you full access for twelve months at a deep founding-member rate, with a limited number of launch seats. If you're planning to publish seriously, it's the best value while it lasts.

You can always revise it — every revision is saved as a new version, and your original priority timestamp never moves, so your "first" date is protected. But a published work is a permanent record and can't be deleted. That permanence is the whole point: it's what makes your proof trustworthy. We remind you of this before you publish.

You do — always. You keep full copyright and choose the license shown to readers (from all-rights-reserved to Creative Commons). Publishing on ReScholar records and protects your ownership; it never transfers it.

No — ReScholar gives you strong, independently-verifiable evidence of authorship and date (hash + timestamp + blockchain anchor + optional DOI), which is powerful for establishing priority. But it isn't a substitute for a formal patent filing with a patent office. For patents, use it as supporting evidence alongside proper legal advice.