About F2Y Apps

We build tools that protect research integrity

F2Y Apps is an AI product studio focused on scholarly publishing. We build citation intelligence tools that help researchers and institutions produce more accurate, credible, and reproducible work.

Our Mission

Making research integrity the default, not the exception

Every year, thousands of papers are published citing retracted studies, broken links, and sources that were never read carefully. The problem is not bad intentions — it is that the tools researchers use were not built to catch these errors at scale.

We built SmartCiter and ScholarScan to change that. Our tools use AI to audit every citation in a manuscript before it is submitted — detecting retracted sources, coverage gaps, format violations, and signs of citation bias. In seconds, not hours.

We believe that institutions — universities, journals, research centers — should be able to enforce citation integrity automatically, across their entire domain, without adding burdens to researchers. That is the standard we are building toward.

Our Products

Two tools. One mission.

Word Plugin

SmartCiter

A Microsoft Word add-in that audits citations inside your manuscript as you write. No copy-pasting, no context switching — citation intelligence where the work happens.

  • Retracted source detection with live database lookup
  • Reference coverage gap analysis
  • APA / MLA / Chicago / Vancouver format validation
  • AI-powered research advisor and methodology reviewer
  • Institution-wide deployment via email domain
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Web Tool

ScholarScan

A browser-based manuscript review platform for researchers, reviewers, and editors. Paste or upload a manuscript and get a full citation audit report — no installation required.

  • Full citation integrity report in under 60 seconds
  • Research methodology assessment by AI
  • Bias pattern detection across reference lists
  • Reviewer-mode scoring with exportable PDF report
  • Shareable audit links for collaborative review
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What We Stand For

Principles behind every product decision

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Researcher-first design

Tools should help researchers produce better work, not create new compliance burdens. Every feature we build is evaluated against that standard.

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Institutional trust

Research integrity is ultimately an institutional responsibility. We build for department-wide and university-wide deployment because individual tools are not enough.

Speed without compromise

A citation audit that takes an hour will not be used. We are obsessed with making thorough integrity checks fast enough to fit into the writing workflow.

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Global accessibility

Research happens everywhere. We price and distribute our tools to serve institutions in emerging academic markets, not only well-funded research universities.

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Privacy by default

Manuscript content is sensitive. We process only what is needed for the audit and never store or train on user manuscripts without explicit consent.

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Open to feedback

We are a small team building in public. Every feature request, edge case, and complaint from researchers makes the product better. We read everything.

Built by a small team that cares

F2Y Apps is an independent software studio. We are not backed by a publishing conglomerate or driven by metrics that conflict with researcher needs. If you have questions, partnership ideas, or institutional licensing inquiries — we would love to hear from you.