Bango vs HAWC

Bango automates abstract screening for systematic literature reviews by assessing articles against criteria users define. Its AI screening returns decisions along with reasoning, matched rules, suggested tags, and confidence scores. Projects can import RIS and BibTeX files or Zotero collections, with up to 10,000 articles supported per project. Bibliometric analysis includes co-authorship networks, citation graphs, keyword maps, publication timelines, author rankings, and co-citation analysis. Bango can produce PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams from record counts and export them as SVG or PNG. It also supports Zotero import and export and can generate Boolean search strings for several research indexes and libraries. The maker says project data stays on the user's computer, with no cloud uploads, login, or account required. The README describes locally encrypted API keys and backups that omit credentials. AI connections include hosted providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral AI, and z.ai, as well as local and other OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Bango runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, though macOS builds support Apple Silicon only. The Free plan is free, with no subscription, paywall, or limits.

HAWC is a free web application for storing, displaying, and synthesizing data used in human health and environmental risk assessments. Its modules support study-quality evaluation, data extraction from human epidemiology, animal bioassay, and in vitro studies, evidence synthesis, and dose-response analysis. Assessment teams can assign managers, members, and reviewers role-based permissions for viewing, editing, and administration. Published material is viewable without an account, while collaboration on an ongoing assessment with EPA scientists requires a Login.gov account and approved EPA HAWC group access. Interactive visualizations connect studies, experiments, endpoints, and dose information. Users can download available datasets as Microsoft Excel files and export figures to PDF or other formats. Benchmark dose modeling is performed endpoint by endpoint at the EPA HAWC chemical manager’s discretion. HAWC supports most modern browsers, with Google Chrome preferred, and reports functionality errors with Internet Explorer.