The mobile app

SysRevAI has an app for iPhone, iPad and Android, on phones and tablets. Screen references, read the full text, resolve conflicts, comment with your team and use the tools, even with no connection.

One app serves every SysRevAI: the trial accounts on sysrevai.com and any institution’s own installation. You sign in with the same account as on the web, see the same reviews, and your decisions end up on the same server. What works better on a big screen (administering the platform) stays on the web, and the app takes you there when needed.

Installing it

1. On an iPhone or iPad, search for “SysRevAI” in the App Store.
2. On an Android phone or tablet, search for it in Google Play.

Connecting it to your server

What you can do

• Home: what is waiting for you in each review, and the “Continue screening” button.
• Screening by title and abstract and by full text, with the protocol’s terms highlighted, exclusion reasons, notes and the AI proposal when the server has AI.
• Article list: the button at the top of screening shows the articles still to screen and the ones you have screened. Tap one to screen it, or to change your decision.
• Full text: the PDF with the terms highlighted, search (with the magnifier, which tells you how many results there are) and zoom, and the protocol’s criteria beside it. When the AI has assessed the article, each criterion shows as met, not met or unclear.
• References: the review’s list with filters (status, text, tag, source) and actions on the ticked ones: screen them by title and abstract, tag them or delete them (the owner only). Also import a file from the phone (Files, iCloud, Drive, an attachment) or pasted text, with a preview; search for new references with the protocol’s filters and save the search; saved searches; and duplicates.
• Each reference’s page (from the list or from screening): the full text (open the PDF, upload one from the phone, replace it, delete it or search the open repositories now), the markers at each stage, and the AI summary, peer review and chat. In The review’s full texts, coverage and the background search queue. In conflicts, the AI’s proposed resolution.
• Managing the review: create a new one (the AI can fill in the form from the protocol document, PDF or Word), edit the protocol, the team (invite by e-mail, roles, blinding, who resolves conflicts), the settings (archive, the public read-only link, delete an archived review) and the coordination of each stage: start it, share the work out, and have the AI assess the queue and accept its most confident verdicts. Each person sees what their role allows, as on the web.
• Included studies, built for tablets first, with the study’s PDF or abstract beside the form: data extraction (the AI can fill your draft; the owner edits the template and approves extractions), risk of bias (RoB 2, ROBINS-I, Newcastle-Ottawa or JBI, with the traffic light, the summary plot and the AI’s proposal per domain) and GRADE with the summary of findings table. On a phone, a switch at the top moves between the form and the study.
• Results and reporting: the PRISMA diagram (and the editor to pin cells by hand), every file of the web’s Exports tab (downloaded to the phone, with the share sheet), the PROSPERO/OSF registration form with the AI’s draft, and the AI-use declaration. Comments can be deleted (your own, or any if you own the review).
• Conflicts, for whoever resolves them.
• Comments on each reference and on the review’s board. Typing @ suggests the team, and the person mentioned gets a notification.
• Alerts from the platform and push notifications.
• Tools: the same as on the web (below).
• Support, for administrators: questions to the SysRevAI team, with screenshots.

Working offline

• The app keeps a batch of references from your queue on the phone. Before a trip, tap “Download 200 references to work offline”.
• Each decision is saved at once and sent as soon as there is a connection; the top of the screen shows how many are waiting. Until it is sent, you can undo the last one.
• If another reviewer completed the reference while you were offline, the app tells you your decision did not count: the server always has the last word.
• At the full-text stage, the batch’s PDFs (the first 20) download with it and read offline too. Those already on the phone carry the “Saved for offline reading” mark.
• Comments, the AI proposal and the tools need a connection. Profile → Offline data shows how much space it all takes and lets you clear it.

On a tablet

• On an iPad and on Android tablets, navigation moves to a sidebar.
• Screening shows in two columns: the batch on one side and the reference on the other.
• At the full-text stage, the PDF sits on one side and the criteria, AI proposal, notes and decision on the other.
• With a keyboard attached: I includes, M marks as maybe and E excludes (as on the web) (then 1-9 picks the reason and 0 none).
• The tools show the list and the detail together. With the app in half the screen (Split View or Android windows) it goes back to the phone layout without losing what you were doing.

Notifications

The app tells you when you are invited to a review, references are assigned to you, there is a conflict, someone mentions you or work is returned to you. On the web, the “Mobile app” column of Profile → Notifications decides which ones you get. A notification only carries a generic sentence (“You have a new conflict to resolve”); when you tap it, the app asks your server for the details. Self-hosted installations send notifications through sysrevai.com with their licence, but without titles, names or decisions.

Tools

• Verify citations in CrossRef, OpenAlex and Europe PMC (up to 15 at a time): pasted, from a review, or by scanning a printed bibliography with the camera. The text is recognised on the phone itself, and you check it before verifying.
• Normalise citations to any of the 8 styles, to copy, share or add them to a review.
• Your latest verifications and normalisations stay under Recent, to open them again.
• Search references in the external databases, in your own references or with a clinical question, and add the ones you pick to a review; duplicates are caught.
• Article analysis: upload a PDF or Word file, generate the critical report, ask the AI about the article or improve a paragraph of your manuscript. Normalising, the report and the chat need the server to have AI set up (chapter 14).

Language, security and updates

• Language: the app follows the phone’s, and you change it in Profile → Language. It has every language of the platform, and a new one appears without updating the app.
• Devices: each phone has its own session. On the web, Profile → Mobile app lists your connected devices and lets you sign out one you have lost.
• Blind mode: it applies just as on the web. In a blinded review, the app does not receive the rest of the team’s decisions.
• Updates: the app updates itself in the background and uses the new version the next time it opens; the profile shows a notice to restart it straight away.
• Signing out deletes the saved batches and PDFs from the phone. Decisions not yet sent are lost, so do it with a connection.

Common questions

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