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Pros

  • Love the chrome extension and add to paperpile button. Customer support exists unlike other free apps and is awesome.

  • I love its reader platform —so comfortable for reading, highlighting and making annotations. The citation system works seamlessly with Google docs.

  • I enjoy the easy-to-use interface and capacity for editing. I like the ease with which I can add papers/documents to the program.

  • Terrific software for compiling references, papers. Pretty good for collaboration.

Cons

  • My biggest complaint is that you cannot search the text of papers.

  • The main issue is in organizing citations because users cannot upload a paper directly into a folder, so there is a risk of misplacing it.

  • It is difficult to troubleshoot why the format is incorrect.

  • The annotation feature is glitchy and limited.

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Sam W.
Staff Scientist
Research, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
February 20, 2024

"Great citation tool"

Overall: Great. It's a very user friendly tool, can be integrated into both GoogleDocs and Word and prevents me from messing up my references. I also love that it can change citation styles with pretty much a click of a button.

Pros: Paperpile is great - convenient and easy to use. I love that it can automatically change the reference style with zero effort and it can find the paper I want to cite by title DOI, link, whatever I throw at it. I reecently stumbled on a bug after Google updated - the Paperpile support team were really responsive, provided a work around and then got back to me when they had patched the software. Overall, just a stellar experience and I'll be using Paperpile for years to come.

Cons: Not much to dislike. At most, it would be that every now and then the ciation is imported incorrectly, but given the multitude of formats that papers come in these days I find that a forgivable fault.

Switched From: Mendeley
Alissa G.
Graduate Researcher
Research, Self-employed
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"I literally recommend this to everyone. "

Overall: Despite my issues with Chrome, I recommend Paperpile to all of my coworkers (I've gotten about half of my grad program on the Paperpile train). It's easily the most user-friendly citation manager I've ever used.

Pros: Best feature is that it is so easily integrated into my workflow. I use Google Drive for my cloud storage, and it's incredibly convenient to have all of my PDFs clearly labeled and easily findable.

Cons: That it is ONLY easily integrated into Google Chrome. I hate Chrome as a browser, and I do wish that Paperpile were more easily integrated into other browsers or Chrome derivatives (e.g., Brave).

Switched From: Papers and EndNote
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: I wanted to be able to annotate PDFs, search, tag, and alter all meta data and I couldn't find that in any of the other citation managers that I tried, or there was too steep of a learning curve and I didn't have time to make the switch. Though there was a bit of upfront work in migrating all of my (1500+ at the time) papers, it was WELL worth it.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 8, 2021
Thanks for the wonderful feedback, Alissa, and for being an advocate of Paperpile <3 You can actually install the Paperpile extension in any Chromium-based browser (like MS Edge, Brave, Vivaldi) and have all our features available there. We also have short-term plans to support other browsers like Safari and Firefox.
Aly Z.
Student
Research, Self-employed
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
3.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
3.0
Likelihood to Recommend
6/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"Pros and cons"

Pros: It is easy to use and the interface looks clean and simple.

Cons: (1) Sometimes when I tried to add a paper from a web page [SENSITIVE CONTENT], although you can see that the readers can simply download the PDF from the website, after I saved it to Paperpile it always says no PDF found so I would have to manually download it and then upload it to Paperpile. (2) Cannot rotate pages when viewing PDFs in Paperpile.

John C.
Academic
Education Management, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"Solid reference manager and citation tool"

Pros: Its ability to add new papers (e.g., automatically pull papers from Google Scholar) is pretty good, better than competitor's products for the most part. Also, synchronization across devices is quite good.

Cons: The iPad version is not as robust in adding new papers. I find myself having to go onto a desktop/laptop machine to do that, even if the need arises while on my iPad.

Switched From: Papers
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: Problems with the other product such as flaky sync across devices.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 7, 2021
Thanks for the feedback, John! While the mobile apps are still somewhat limited compared to the web version, we intend to align features across platforms as we continue developing. Eventually, importing new papers should be as seamless on mobile as it is on web. If you find any particular disruption or have further insights to share about your import experience, please feel free to drop us a line via chat or email (support@paperpile.com)
Shawn C.
Graduate Student
Biotechnology, Self-employed
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"Easy to use and ideal for managing libraries"

Pros: It is very easy to use both in Word and in Google Docs. Very easy to import papers and manage libraries for different projects. Much less glitchy than other programs and imports paper metadata with much fewer errors compared to other commonly used software.

Cons: It still is much easier to use with google docs than Word. It is still hard to justify the cost of this program compared to free alternatives. Managing libraries for different projects could be a little easier.

Switched From: Mendeley
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: Other software was much glitchier in importing metadata.
Babak S.
Oncoradiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician
Medical Practice, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"Essential and indispensable ingredient of team science "

Pros: Collaborative research requires an ecosystem of knowledge sharing and team-based writing. Could writing platforms are gaining popularity and it requires integration with citation managers. Paperpile is the best so far.

Cons: Search capacity is very limited. You can not perform advanced search to find the reference you need. However, if you know what you need or the size of library is small (<200 articles) this is not a huge limitation.

Switched From: EndNote
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: Online capabilities and Google doc integrarion
Tal S.
Student
Research, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"A fast, easy-to-use paper manager"

Pros: In-app highlighting and commenting is vital and works well enough. Integration with google drive is nice. The program is light-weight and not too slow. It's easy for the program to find papers and PDFs from a given webpage.

Cons: I wish the highlighting and commenting had a bit more flexibility. I wish there was a "compact" view so more papers would fit on the screen in the listed papers view. I wish the "website" link for each paper linked to the publicly accessible link or DOI, not the paperpile link.

Switched From: Mendeley
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: It's slow and less effective at finding PDFs. I switch from Paperpile to Mendeley because I needed a program which allowed me to highlight and comment on PDFs. When Paperpile introduced that feature, I switched back to paperpile.
Dean W.
Principal Software Engineer
Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 21, 2021

"Easy way to manage papers using Google tools"

Overall: I use it to save research papers I come across for searching and reading later.

Pros: With the browser plugin, its easy to add a paper and it's smart about detecting whether the URL is a PDF or a page with a PDF (like arxiv.org), etc. It's easy to search papers and read them later.

Cons: I Safari for almost everything else now, so I would like a Safari browser plugin. Using iCloud for storage would mean one less cloud storage provider to deal with, too.

Alternatives Considered: Papers
Switched From: Papers
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: The app was going away. I was considering a cloud option and decided to evaluate alternatives. Paperpile meet my needs the best.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 14, 2021
Thanks for the feedback, Dean. We do have short-term plans to support other browsers like Safari and Firefox. In the meantime, Paperpile runs in any Chromium-based browser (like MS Edge, Brave, Vivaldi) in case you'd like an alternative to Chrome. Can't say the same for iCloud or other storage providers yet, though, but I'm adding your +1 to the topic on our internal tracker.
Michael W.
Research Associate Professor
Pharmaceuticals, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"Paperpile"

Overall: Excellent. Very easy to use and easily accessible on all of my devices.

Pros: Easy to search, easy to add new articles

Cons: The sharing of references with others is kind of difficult to figure out.

Alternatives Considered: EndNote
Reasons for Choosing Paperpile: Paperpile does a better job of formatting articles and offering easy access to pdfs and citations. I still need to use Endnote since it is soo popular in academia. It is important for Paperpile to offer easy import into Endnote.
Rebecca T.
Graduate student
Higher Education, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"Great reference management tool "

Pros: Really like how easy it is to add papers to your library on Paperpile straight from the browser, as well as the Google Docs plug in which makes adding references to collaborative projects really easy. Lots of tools for organization within the system, where you can organize by project. Papers save as PDFs to the associated Google account which is nice as it saves space on your main drive.

Cons: It can be hard to convince colleagues to switch to this reference manager as it does have a monthly fee, whereas universities often have subscriptions to other reference managers that are available for free to students and faculty. Install of the plug-in can be a little confusing as well.

Switched From: Mendeley
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: Paperpile is way easier to use and interface with Google Docso

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 8, 2021
Thanks for the nice feedback, Rebecca! Many (or at least quite a few) universities and institutions also have group/site licenses with us, although as a younger product than our usual competitors I suppose we're still catching up. Hopefully we'll keep increasing that number as word of Paperpile spreads thanks to advocates like you :-)
Oliver M.
Graduate Research Associate
Higher Education, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 31, 2021

"Dissertation reference management"

Pros: Ease of use for "official" features, Google ecosystem integration, collaboration allowing sharing of reference collections, hosting in the cloud (not for backup but for any-time any-place availability)

Cons: Lack of reference version control to explicitly link version numbers/dates to duplicate references and allow controlled deduplication is an issue. Paperpile also lacks ready/easy means to modify existing citation styles to correct punctuation issues. A direct link to a rule-file for the citation style in use (containing comments with quick examples for correct syntax) would make Paperpile much better. Manually correcting in-text citation/punctuation for my dissertation got old quickly.

Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: Better collaboration: manuscripts edits in Google Docs with final export/typesetting as a separate step.
Ethan G.
Researcher
Higher Education, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"Paperpile for Education Research"

Overall: I use Paperpile everyday for viewing and reading literature for research. It’s so easy to use and manage. Because you can tie it to Gmail accounts, I always recommend it to other researchers and Grad students because of our (“unlimited”) University storage. The low cost also makes it easy to recommend to Grad students.

Pros: I really like how easy it is to tag documents for better organization and searching. I also find the Chrome extension extremely beneficial for quickly importing new papers/references

Cons: One recommendation would be to implement better Touch support for in-browser experience, especially using a stylus to hand write annotations. I use primarily 2-1 Chromebooks, so I don’t care much for the mobile app. I also wish I could use the built-in PDF viewer/editor as a standalone application, rather than having to first import the document to Paperpile. This would be to keep work/play purposes separate.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 4, 2021
Thanks for the nice feedback, Ethan! We do hope to implement better support for touch / stylus features - the request is on our list so I've added your +1 to the topic. I'm not sure if we have plans to offer the PDF viewer as a standalone app, but it's not unlikely (it actually used to be one) after we take it from beta to general availability.
Hemanth P.
Graduate Student
Research, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"Paperpile review"

Overall: Overall I have had a great experience with paperpile and it has made my PhD/Research life substantially easier, I will keep using it after my PhD due to this fact.

Pros: I like how easy it is to use especially with the chrome add on I am able to just add any paper that I need for my research. It has definitely made my PhD life a lot easier. The integration with google docs is also very convenient and allows for quick creating of references.

Cons: It is a bit difficult to edit 'folders' for different projects, however that is a small issue.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 2, 2021
We appreciate the feedback, Hermanth. Please feel free to drop us a line via chat or email to describe the difficulty you've experienced editing folders - we'd be interested in hearing more about your experience.
Sarah N.
Clinical Program Manager
Medical Practice, 501-1,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"Great product with lots of great features!"

Overall: organization of many, many medical articles into individual and shareable folders.

Pros: Easy to import content found online and easy to cite within docs including google docs. i also like the feature where you can highlight the title and copy and paste it turns it into a full citation. additionally, i like that if i attach a PDF that is named with random letters/numbers, it turns it into a proper title with the author once attached.

Cons: Wish i could directly share links/PDFs to articles as one-offs with users rather than having to create a folder. wish it was easier to highlight the title to copy and paste it to turn it into citation format- sometimes it is finicky.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 8, 2021
Thanks for the nice feedback, Sarah! You can actually select individual articles and hit Shift-S to get a link / share via email (or click the Share option that appears in the top menu bar). Rather than copying selected text, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-C in your library copies selected reference(s) in the full bibliographical form of whichever style is chosen via Settings. Text you select on our interface can be copied via the regular right-click menu. You can check out other keyboard shortcuts by clicking your email on the top right corner > Keyboard Shortcuts, or simply hitting the ? key. Hope this makes sense - let us know otherwise!
Penelope W.
Community & Economic Development Field Specialist
Research, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"Absolutely recommend Paperpile"

Overall: Wonderful. It is a pleasure to use.

Pros: As a new doctoral student, I have tried several citation management programs, downloading trial versions and trying them out. Paperpile is the most intuitive, user friendly system I’ve tried. I love its reader platform —so comfortable for reading, highlighting and making annotations. The citation system works seamlessly with Google docs. When I’ve had questions, a customer service rep responds quickly and helpfully. The software is such a pleasure to use.

Cons: I hope that as my studies go forward that I won’t have issues collaborating with colleagues who are using different platforms such as Zotero (which I tried but didn’t like).

Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: These platforms were less functional in different ways: managing pdfs, intuitiveness, citation generation, and the comfort of the reading pane. Paperpile has been a breeze comparatively.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 19, 2021
Thanks for this lovely feedback, Penelope <3 If any issues or questions do arise in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out as usual via chat or email (support@paperpile.com)
Rena B.
Research Scientist
Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
September 1, 2021

"Streamlined and easy"

Overall: The process of citing sources and storing them has been streamlined for me in my research which saves time and money.

Pros: Easy to use, quick to find and save new sources

Cons: At first paperpile got confused about which google profile to use, which was frustrating. I think this has since been worked out.

Switched From: Mendeley
Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: Company preferred product

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 19, 2021
Thanks for the feedback, Rena! Indeed, this is one of the limitations our integration with Google brings. We intend to implement alternative sign-up options soon; this will make us more independent from the Google environment and less prone to this type of issue.
liping L.
Graduate
Chemicals, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
7/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"pros and cons"

Pros: It is very easy to organise papers in this software. Firstly, there are many methods to find papers. You only need to type doi, link or name of the papers you want. Secondly, the paperpile can download these paper directly, which is very convenient for us. Finally, we could highlight the pdf directly using paperpile, which helps us reading quickly.

Cons: There are several things can be improved. Firstly, is there any method to download and organise supporting information of articles directly by paperpile? secondly, when editing the pdf of papers, the position I want highlighted will move to the position with one row above. This problem is really annoying sometimes. Finally, during the pandemic, people are working from home. However, even after using vpn, it fails to download papers directly in the paperpile. Hope you guys can solve these issues.

Darian S.
Doctoral Candidate
Biotechnology, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 23, 2021

"Paperpile"

Pros: Paperpile makes managing my scientific documents a snap. I have the papers organized into categories; each one has personal annotations and notes that are searchable, so I can quickly find the publications I need. Citation management is very good too with support for Microsoft Word and Google Docs.

Cons: Sometimes annotation features don't work on some documents. In these cases, things like highlighting text can be buggy.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 14, 2021
Thanks for the nice words, Darian. Please don't hesitate to reach out via chat or email (support@paperpile.com) to report PDFs where the annotation features don't work - this is often due to the file itself / the way it was digitized, but it's always good to check!
Timothy W.
Chiropractor
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"Simplistic and Easy to Use"

Pros: This software is effortless to use. It is reliable and I have never had any issues with it.

Cons: Integration with Google Docs is very helpful with manuscript citations, however, some of my co-authors prefer to use Microsoft Word, so I wish it could provide citations for both.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 8, 2021
Very glad to read your Paperpile experience has been issue-free, Timothy! I am also pleased to let you know you can download our Word plugin from https://paperpile.com/word-plugin/ - it's still in beta but running quite smoothly. If you download GDocs files in Word format, please make sure to convert the citations as well via the Paperpile menu in Word. Any feedback you might have about that or anything else will always be welcome via chat or email (support@paperpile.com)
Ashley S.
Post-doc
Higher Education, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

""Paperpile is perfect""

Pros: Paperpile is the best citation management software for working on shared documents (i.e. google docs). I have introduced my colleagues to it for documents that we are collaboratively working on. As one of my colleagues put it, "Paperpile is perfect." I couldn't agree more. After having used many citation management tools, Paperpile is by far the easiest and most straightforward. I really appreciate the add-in extension for web browsers so that you can easily cite a website. I also appreciate that you can add citations in documents directly through web searches. Additionally, it is simple to share libraries. I now prefer to use Google docs over Word even when I'm not working collaboratively because of the ease of using Paperpile in Google docs.

Cons: When a reference is cited in a document it is "hyperlinked," but the hyperlink doesn't actually connect to anything. This has been confusing to some of my colleagues. It would be nice if the hyperlink connected to the actual citation. Some of my colleagues are hesitant to use Paperpile because they don't want to pay for a software when there are free citation softwares available. Having a longer free trial period might help with that.

Irene W.
PhD Candidate
Research, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
September 1, 2021

"Easy paper management tool"

Pros: This software allows you to save papers, along with the PDF copies (if applicable). The phone app works well to integrate browser activity on your desktop - super easy to access papers while on-the-go. I like the "Cite" function, which generates a citation of the paper in a format of choice.

Cons: The PDF is not always attached to the Paperpile entry, especially if you have to go through a paywall to access an article. In an opposite scenario, sometimes Paperpile is unable to add a paper to the library if you are only looking at the PDF web version of a paper. This is an issue I see when using PubMed and integrating with my institutional access.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 19, 2021
Thanks for the nice feedback, Irene! The matter of paper access and proxies is a recurring headache for us, one which has proved difficult to diagnose and find treatments solutions for. If you find yourself experiencing import issues very frequently, please feel free to drop us a line about it via chat or email (support@paperpile.com) so we might have a closer look.
Chang-Yu C.
PhD student
Research, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2021

"Excellent function"

Pros: I am happy with the current functionality. I am a heavy google suite user, so the Paperpile UI integration with chrome and google doc perfectly fits my need.

Cons: I am satisfied! The only drawback I found is pretty minor. If I log in with two google accounts in my chrome, even though I only log in into one account for google doc, somehow the references update would fail. This was annoying because I usually keep two google account active, one for work and another for personal use. To sidestep this problem, I have to log out all my account and log in again just to update my bibliography.

Switched From: Mendeley

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 3, 2021
Thanks for the feedback, Chang-Yu! Indeed - that behavior is an unfortunate limitation we have not been able to overcome. We recommend the use of Chrome Profiles to avoid this and to keep account activity separate, although we do hope to find eventual solutions for this limitation.
Carolyn S.
Doctoral Candidate
Higher Education, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
September 17, 2021

"Paperpile - Researcher"

Pros: The functions are intuitive, easy to use and figure out. I chose Paperpile because everything was easy to figure out. For the few questions I had, customer service answered me back within hours.

Cons: Sometimes the auto-update doesn't pickup information and I have to enter it manually.

Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: They were just hard to figure out.
Sherin R.
Fellow
Medical Practice, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 21, 2021

"Great way to organize and cite papers"

Overall: Great!

Pros: Paperpile is really easy to use with google docs. I started using it on a paper I was co-writing in google docs, and it was helpful to be able to cite as we wrote the paper instead of having to do it at the end. Also love how seamlessly it can save citations, and download the pdf from the journal page w one click.

Cons: I wish there was a better way to take notes on the articles that I read and save in Paperpile - essentially scratch paper that I can save my notes, important figures from the text, or text that I highlight / send to the note.

Reasons for Switching to Paperpile: Integration w google docs.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 14, 2021
Thanks for the kind words, Sherin. Improvements for the note-taking experience in Paperpile are in the works, so some of the features you mention might be available / more feasible soon. There should be some more details on our next newsletter.
Lauren S.
Student
Hospital & Health Care, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"Has made literature reviews easy! "

Pros: 1. I love how easy it is to connect to my institution's credentials and log in remotely. 2. It is extremely easy to search between them documents 3. Connecting to google docs is a breeze.

Cons: In google documents, if I select the paper to open in the citation, it brings me to an error.

Vendor Response

By Paperpile on September 14, 2021
We appreciate the feedback, Lauren! Do you mean you're clicking an in-text citation in Google Docs and getting an error page? If you're seeing hyperlinks when clicking those citations (instead of a bubble reading "Paperpile citation"), that means the extension needs to be reloaded via the Chrome menu > More Tools > Extensions. Restarting the browser should also do the trick. Otherwise, please drop us a line via chat or email (support@paperpile.com).