ReviQ

Spec sheet

Purpose

ReviQ is a locally deployed workbench for systematic and multivocal literature reviews.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Intended users

The project describes its workflow for researchers conducting systematic or multivocal literature reviews, including reviews with up to five reviewers.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integrations

Grey-literature retrieval can use SearchApi.io-backed search engines or arXiv’s API, and uses ScrapingBee to fetch and archive sources.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The repository lists the GNU General Public License v3.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Authentication limitation

The README states that ReviQ has no authentication, so anyone who can reach its port can access projects and resolve conflicts.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Collaboration

Reviewers can exchange decisions as JSON files, and grey-literature corpora can be shared through an interchange package.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Deployment and data

ReviQ runs in Docker, stores data in a local Docker volume, and binds its ports to loopback by default.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Deployment and storage

ReviQ runs in Docker and stores its data in a Docker volume on the user's machine.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

Optional features

OCR and figure descriptions are off by default; figure descriptions use an optional Anthropic API key.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Results and exports

Results include a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram, publication charts, a PDF protocol report, BibTeX exports, and a replication package.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Retrieval costs

SearchApi.io and ScrapingBee API keys are needed for the corresponding retrieval engines and fetching; their usage is billed to the user, and ReviQ has no budget ceiling for the tool.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Retrieval integrations

The optional grey-literature retrieval tool can use SearchApi.io-backed search engines or arXiv, and uses ScrapingBee to fetch and archive results.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Review capacity

A project setup supports up to five reviewers.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

Review workflow

It supports eight phases, from project setup and importing references through screening, quality assessment, data extraction, and results.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Screening

Title and abstract screening supports Include, Exclude, and Uncertain decisions, per-criterion rationale, conflict detection, Cohen’s κ with 95% CI, and PABAK.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

Screening statistics

Screening includes automatic conflict detection, Cohen’s κ with a 95% confidence interval, and PABAK.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security limitation

ReviQ has no authentication; the README warns that anyone able to reach its ports can read projects and resolve conflicts.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Systematic Review Software#28 of 306.7