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Most Helpful Reviews for Paperpile
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Nina
Verified reviewer
Research, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
W/o this = digested by a sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon
Like the heavens parted on my sad scholarly life.
PROSAffordable 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.
CONSSometimes it acts funny when I click on a reference from Google Docs but is a minor annoyance.
Reasons for switching to Paperpile
Integration with Google Docs
Bjorn
Hospital & Health Care, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2021
Great for research
This is the easiest way I’ve found to collect and organize literature.
PROSPaperpile is the easiest software I’ve used to manage PDFs and other documents for research. Running within chrome and using google docs or word for citations is more straightforward than endnote, mendeley, or zotero, without clunky app interfaces.
CONSThe PDF viewer and annotations are great in iPadOS, but can be distracting if I share a paper with my team. Collaborative annotations has been a “coming soon” feature for a while, and development is overall pretty slow.
Reasons for switching to Paperpile
Mendeley was unstable and permanently corrupted itself, endnote was clunky, slow to load, and also frequently crashed. Neither was great at pulling metadata.
Vendor Response
We appreciate the earnest feedback, Bjorn! Indeed, our development has been slow and unpredictable as a small self-funded team, so there have been several unfulfilled promises/expectations over the years. Our team has grown recently and has been hard at work rewriting our entire UI and extension, so there should be novelties "soon" ;) Since I think you've already expressed interest for this feature, I'll add this feedback to the topic on our tracker as a +2 from you to bump up its priority.
Replied September 2021
Aly
Research, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2021
Pros and cons
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.
Diler
Research, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2021
Paperpile makes citing easier!
Overall Paperpile is very useful in my day-to-day life. I just submitted a scientific paper with citations all managed by Paperpile! I will continue to use this.
PROSI like the seamless in-text citation ability and the automatic bibliography creation feature.
CONSThe Paperpile page is slow and takes up too many computing resources. Opening papers to annotate is quite slow and my computer has problems when too many Paperpile tabs are open.
Reasons for switching to Paperpile
I liked Paperpile's ability to seamlessly to in-text citation in Google Drive.
Babak
Medical Practice, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Essential and indispensable ingredient of team science
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.
CONSSearch 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
