A 15-minute research-paper game
One anomaly.
One paper. Today.
Real scientific puzzles. Six phases. Hostile peer reviewers. Export to Markdown or LaTeX. Built for the curious — researchers, students, and people who think for a living.
FREE TIER · UNLIMITED RUNS · BYO AI KEY · NO ACCOUNT
15 minutes, six phases, one publishable artefact.
Every screen is gameplay. Every tap moves the paper forward.
SplashToday’s anomaly
NoticeState the violation
HypothesisFuse concepts
ReviewBeat the reviewers
PaperExport to LaTeX
What you get.
The free tier is whole. Pro is a tip jar with conveniences.
200+ real anomalies
Across physics, economics, biology, ML, neuroscience, and CS. Every seed is a published puzzle a real researcher cares about.
Voice dictation
Tap once to speak your rebuttals and hypotheses. On-device speech, no cloud. Falls back to typing on any device.
Markdown & LaTeX export
Every paper exports as a clean Markdown file or an IEEE-style LaTeX document. Bold lines are your verbatim words.
BYO AI key, or none
Plug in OpenAI, Anthropic, or local Ollama — or play fully offline with templated synthesis. Keys never leave the device.
Hostile peer review
Three reviewer voices challenge the work. Three difficulty modes. Compose a rebuttal in one line each.
Local-first portfolio
Every paper you publish stays on the device. Sortable, filterable, exportable. Pro adds optional encrypted cloud sync.
Research is not a profession. It is a habit. Anomaly gives you fifteen minutes a day to practise it.
— THE ANOMALY MANIFESTO