Tech riderRev. 20 Sept 2026
- 1Runs onself-hosted, Web
- 2CostsNot stated by the maker
- 3Reference deduplicationYes
- 4Data extractionYes
- 5Protocol supportYes
- 6Collaborator limit5 users
- 7Review typessystematic literature review; multivocal literature review
6 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: github.com
Overview
ReviQ is ranked #15 of 30 in systematic review software on Specifiction. It runs on Self-hosted, Web.
Compared on systematic review software
- Free plan
- Yesgithub.com
- Reference deduplication
- Yesgithub.com
- Data extraction
- Yesgithub.com
- Protocol support
- Yesgithub.com
- Collaborator limit
- 5 usersgithub.com
- Review types
- systematic literature review; multivocal literature reviewgithub.com
Facts
- Purpose
- ReviQ is a locally deployed workbench for systematic and multivocal literature reviews.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Review workflow
- It guides reviews through eight phases, from project setup and import to results.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Screening
- Title and abstract screening supports Include, Exclude, and Uncertain decisions, per-criterion rationale, conflict detection, Cohen’s κ with 95% CI, and PABAK.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Review capacity
- A project setup supports up to five reviewers.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Results and exports
- Results include a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram, publication charts, venue and taxonomy summaries, a PDF protocol report, BibTeX exports, and a replication package.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Reviewers can exchange decisions as JSON files, and share grey-literature corpora through an interchange package.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Grey-literature retrieval can use SearchApi.io-backed search engines or arXiv’s API, and uses ScrapingBee to fetch and archive sources.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Deployment and storage
- ReviQ runs in Docker and stores its data in a Docker volume on the user's machine.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Security limitation
- ReviQ has no authentication; the README warns that anyone able to reach its ports can read projects and resolve conflicts.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Retrieval costs
- Grey-literature retrieval spends third-party API credits billed to the user, and the tool has no budget ceiling.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies the software as GNU General Public License v3.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The README describes ReviQ for researchers conducting systematic or multivocal literature reviews.github.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Screening statistics
- Screening includes automatic conflict detection, Cohen’s κ with a 95% confidence interval, and PABAK.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Deployment and data
- ReviQ runs in Docker, stores data in a local Docker volume, and binds its ports to loopback by default.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Authentication limitation
- The README states that ReviQ has no authentication, so anyone who can reach its port can access projects and resolve conflicts.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- 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.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Optional features
- OCR and figure descriptions are off by default; figure descriptions use an optional Anthropic API key.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
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Sources
- github.com/philipphaindl/ReviQ· checked 2 Oct 2026