Paperpile authenticates securely with your Google Account. Our servers never access your password or store it anywhere.

It also connects to your Google Drive, but cannot access your personal data — only files you upload via Paperpile.

And of course, we won't share your e-mail address with anyone.

Roadmap - What’s next?

We have an ambitious roadmap for Paperpile.

Join our Community Forum to discuss and suggest new features.

Planned

Improved note-taking and annotations

You can already add simple notes to your references. With our web and mobile PDF viewers, you can also annotate your PDFs.

As a next step, we want to bring all your notes and annotations together in the Paperpile web app, let you add standalone notes, search and organize your notes, and integrate with your favorite note-taking apps.

Please share your feedback and find out more about our plans in our survey.

Survey: Notes and annotations

Planned

Markdown support

Apps like Notion, Roam Research, Obsidian, or RStudio have at least two things in common: they are popular, and they are based on Markdown. That's why our goal is to provide citations and reference management for Markdown-based workflows.

Please share your feedback and find out more about our plans in our survey.

Survey: Markdown and BibTeX

Planned

More integrations with other apps

Paperpile already integrates with Google Docs, Google Drive, Microsoft Word, Overleaf, and GitHub. But what about Slack, Trello, Notion, Roam Research, Gmail, [insert your favorite app here]? What integration would improve your workflow?

Suggest an integration

Started

Single sign-on (SSO) and other login options

Switch Google accounts or use Paperpile without a Google account. Use the single sign-on system of your company or institution.

Started

Update of Google Docs plugin with new features

We're working on a complete revamp of our Google Docs plugin. It will fix longstanding bugs that we technically couldn't address without a complete rewrite. It will also make collaboration easier with full support for Paperpile's new shared folders and shared libraries. And of course, it will add an array of user-requested features such as narrative citations and multiple bibliographies per document...

Started

Update of mobile apps with new features

We aim to modernize our mobile apps and achieve closer feature parity with the web app where appropriate. Reading PDFs, note-taking and annotation features will be our primary focus. And yes, we're adding dark mode to our mobile apps.

Beta

Support for Safari and Firefox

When Paperpile launched, browsers had different approaches to extension development. In 2021, all major browsers — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge — finally adopted a standard extension interface.

Paperpile already works in Edge and in various other Chrome-based browsers. We have now also made our extension available as private beta for Safari and Firefox and hope to release public versions soon.

Beta

Customized BibTeX keys

That's the most frequent BibTeX-related request. You can opt in and test the feature in Settings > Feature preview.

Beta

Word integration

Although officially still in beta, our new Microsoft Word plugin is fully functional and already used by thousands of Paperpile users. Like our Google Docs plugin, we're working on a new version that better integrates with Paperpile's new features (such as shared libraries and folders) and adds many user-requested features.

Download Word plugin

Done

Advanced functions for the browser extension

We’ve released a completely new version of our browser extension. Add labels, folders, and notes directly when you save a reference to your library; save multiple references simultaneously; download PDFs even faster.

Done

Improved search including full-text PDF search

  • Advanced search options (phrase search, negative search, ...).
  • Fast lookup of authors, journals, labels, and folders in the search box.
  • Faster search for online sources (articles and books).
  • Full-text PDF search.

Done

Improved sharing and collaboration

We've received important feedback over the years from small research groups to big corporations on improving sharing and collaboration in Paperpile. That's why we’ve been working are working on a complete overhaul of those features.

Learn more: Sharing in the new Paperpile

Done

Automatic BibTeX export

Automatically export your BibTeX files to Google Drive, GitHub, or a download link.

Learn more

Done

Overleaf integration

Sync a BibTeX file to Overleaf and cite your references from your Paperpile library.

Learn more

Done

Mobile apps for iOS and Android

More on our blog

Done

Customized Google Drive sync

You can now personalize how your files are saved in Google Drive.

More on our blog

All your papers in one place. Nice and tidy.

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