# Paperpile Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026 > Review of Paperpile Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. Source: https://www.softwareadvice.com/help-desk/paperpile-profile --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Knowledge Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/help-desk/knowledge-management-comparison/) / Paperpile Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/help-desk/paperpile-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/help-desk/paperpile-profile/alternatives/) # Paperpile 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing Wondering if Paperpile is right for your organization? Our Knowledge Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Paperpile 4.8 [(122)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/help-desk/paperpile-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $2.99 per month ### About Paperpile Paperpile is a knowledge management solution that helps businesses access, read and annotate texts across the research library. The platform enables administrators to add bibliographies and citations across Google Docs. Managers can access documents in PDF format via mobile applications on Android and iOS devices. Additionally, Paperpile allows teams to import data from Google Scholar, PubMed and other publisher sites on a unified interface. Paperpile lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party applications including Google Docs and Google Drive. Wondering if Paperpile is right for your organization? 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We've got you covered. Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## Paperpile Features - Popular features found in Knowledge Management Access Controls/Permissions Catalog Management Collaboration Tools Commenting/Notes Content Management Data Import/Export Discussions/Forums Document Management Self Service Portal Text Editing - More features of Paperpile Activity Dashboard Content Library Full Text Search Knowledge Base Management Multi-Language Third-Party Integrations ## Paperpile Integrations Google Docs Integration rated undefined from -1 review Google Drive Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Paperpile User Reviews Overall Rating 4.8 Ratings Breakdown 5 77% 4 21% 3 2% 2 0% 1 0% Secondary Ratings Ease of Use 4.7 Value for money 4.7 Customer support 4.7 Functionality 4.5 Sam W. Verified reviewer Research 10000+ employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed February 2024 Great citation tool 5 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. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality 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. Read More JC John C. Verified reviewer Education Management 10000+ employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed August 2021 Solid reference manager and citation tool 5 Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 4 Functionality 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. Reasons for switching to Paperpile Problems with the other product such as flaky sync across devices. Vendor Response 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) Replied September 2021 Read More AZ Aly Z. Verified reviewer Research Self-Employed Used weekly for less than 12 months Review source Reviewed August 2021 Pros and cons 3 Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 3 Functionality 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. Read More SC Shawn C. Verified reviewer Biotechnology Self-Employed Used daily for less than 12 months Review source Reviewed August 2021 Easy to use and ideal for managing libraries 5 Ratings Breakdown 4 Ease of use 4 Value for money 5 Functionality 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. Reasons for switching to Paperpile Other software was much glitchier in importing metadata. Read More BS Babak S. Verified reviewer Medical Practice 10000+ employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed August 2021 Essential and indispensable ingredient of team science 5 Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Customer support 5 Functionality 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. Reasons for switching to Paperpile Online capabilities and Google doc integrarion Read More TS Tal S. Verified reviewer Research 1001-5000 employees Used weekly for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed August 2021 A fast, easy-to-use paper manager 4 Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 4 Functionality 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. 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. Read More DW Dean W. Verified reviewer Computer Software 201-500 employees Used weekly for less than 2 years Review source Reviewed August 2021 Easy way to manage papers using Google tools 5 I use it to save research papers I come across for searching and reading later. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Functionality 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. 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 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. Replied September 2021 Read More MW Michael W. Verified reviewer Pharmaceuticals 1001-5000 employees Used daily for less than 2 years Review source Reviewed August 2021 Paperpile 5 Excellent. Very easy to use and easily accessible on all of my devices. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 4 Value for money 4 Functionality Pros: Easy to search, easy to add new articles Cons: The sharing of references with others is kind of difficult to figure out. 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. Read More RT Rebecca T. Verified reviewer Higher Education 11-50 employees Used weekly for less than 12 months Review source Reviewed August 2021 Great reference management tool 5 Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Functionality 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. Reasons for switching to Paperpile Paperpile is way easier to use and interface with Google Docso Vendor Response 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 :-) Replied September 2021 Read More Nina S. Verified reviewer Research 501-1000 employees Used daily for more than 2 years Review source Reviewed August 2021 W/o this = digested by a sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon 5 Like the heavens parted on my sad scholarly life. Ratings Breakdown 5 Ease of use 5 Value for money 5 Functionality Pros: Affordable for a poor PhD student; super easy & intuitive to use - seamless integration with Google docs allowing for collaborative writing projects. On the cloud so that I can switch from computer to computer + not worry about losing all my references if my ancient computers stop working. Honestly, shudder when thinking about life without it. Cons: Sometimes it acts funny when I click on a reference from Google Docs but is a minor annoyance. 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