Paperpile

4.0
219 reviews
10K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Get a head start for you research and finally beat the paper chaos on your desk. With Paperpile you have all your research PDFs in one place — nice and tidy. Paperpile makes it easier than ever to collect, manage, read, and annotate your papers.

FIND & COLLECT

- Search millions of papers from 20,000+ academic journals right in the app.

- Add new papers to your collection with one tap and the PDF will be downloaded automatically.

- Save directly from your browser to your Paperpile library

- User your university's off-campus proxy access to get restricted content behind paywalls.

MANAGE & ORGANIZE

- Bring structure to your library with folders and subfolders

- Organize your library visually with colored labels

- Mark important papers with stars.

- Search your library to find the paper you need fast.

READ & ANNOTATE

- Read like on paper with a fast and slick PDF viewer experience

- Highlight important sections in different colors

- Add notes and never forget an important idea.

- Add hand-drawn annotations
Updated on
Oct 27, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9
173 reviews
Casey Cartwright
July 28, 2021
I love this on my iPad. And I use it on my andriod to read on the go.... To the creators. Please add a better search feature. Please add better organization, I would love to be able to list my papers by authors first and last name. Nearly every other service of this type does this. It is really inconvenient in the app to find a paper if I cannot remember it's title and even then it can be difficult to find.
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E Fox
October 2, 2020
Invaluable App! Hoping this can become my research hub. Bug: App doesn't recognize PDFs on device. Requests for Dev: Dark mode (AMOLED)🙏🏼, manual doc upload, Google Drive integration for backup and importing documents, diff highlight colors, reader options beyond just inverting color & number of pages on screen — need text wrapping, text size, scaling, bookmarks, etc. TTS Reader option would be amazing, but options to make the docs more readable on mobile devices would be more than enough.
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Mark Pezzo
March 19, 2021
I've used the web app almost since the beginning (5 years) and it's the best app hands down for a) stirring pdfs, b) highlighting, and c) citing references within both Google docs AND Microsoft word. Also importing from Google scholar (both pdf and ref) is super easy. Plus the folks there are really nice and respond almost immediately to questions. My only big feature request would be to have true note taking that is separate (and had it's own window) from highlighting.
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What's new

- Fixes and improvements for PDF imports from Science Direct and other publisher sites.