Review Express is a Chrome extension built around one of the most repetitive tasks in research: getting through a long paper fast enough to decide whether it matters. Instead of a general-purpose summariser, it ships with pre-engineered prompts aimed specifically at scientific papers, and lets you choose a summary mode that matches why you are reading - a broad overview, the key findings, or something in between.
The published version works on highlighted text. You select a passage on a journal site or any web page, trigger the extension, and get a summary in your chosen mode. You can also ask direct questions about the selection, which is handy when you need to check whether a paper actually supports a specific claim before citing it. The developer notes that the extension consults the surrounding article text as well as your selection, so summaries are more contextual than the highlight alone would suggest.
Review Express is a small, early-stage project - the public version is 0.1.x and the developer describes more features as forthcoming. It is currently English-only in the interface, and it is an independent tool rather than something published by a journal, university, or AI vendor. For a research workflow where you read many abstracts and papers in a day, that narrow focus on scientific summarization is the main reason to try it.
