What is openscience?

OpenScience is a desktop application built for people doing scientific research who want to keep their work organized and traceable. Instead of juggling separate tools for searching evidence, running analysis, and writing up results, you describe a research task in plain language and the app helps you search for evidence, run analysis, generate figures and notebooks, and put together reports or manuscripts, all inside one local workspace on your own computer. The project is distributed as a downloadable installer rather than something you build from source. There are versions for macOS on both Apple Silicon and Intel chips, Windows, and Linux (both x64 and ARM64), each packaged as its own installer file. You grab whichever one matches your machine from the project's website or its GitHub releases page and run it like any other desktop program. An important thing to understand before using it: this public GitHub repository does not contain the actual OpenScience source code. It exists only to host the downloadable installers, release notes, and licensing information. So this is not a codebase you can inspect, fork, or contribute code to in the usual open source sense. The license is also worth reading carefully. OpenScience uses its own custom license that allows personal and research use, but commercial use, enterprise deployment, running it as a hosted service for others, paid consulting work, or redistribution all require getting written permission first from the maker, ResearAI. Anyone wanting to use it in a business or revenue-generating context needs to reach out to them directly by email rather than assuming it is free to use that way. Overall this is best understood as a packaged research tool for individuals and academic groups rather than an open codebase, with real restrictions on how it can be used commercially.