Like the heavens parted on my sad scholarly life.

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.

Sometimes it acts funny when I click on a reference from Google Docs but is a minor annoyance.

This is the easiest way I’ve found to collect and organize literature.

Paperpile 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.

The 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.

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

(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.

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.

I like the seamless in-text citation ability and the automatic bibliography creation feature.

The 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Easy to search, easy to add new articles

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

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.

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.

I love the integration with google chrome and the iPad app. It's easy to add a paper while searching google scholar or Pubmed. It also completely changed the process of writing references. It's so easy to add a reference while writing that I will never again go through the painstaking process of adding references at the end of writing.

Honestly, no, I am super happy with the switch. I wish I had switched from Mendeley to this earlier in my PhD.

After transition from different reference managers, I am very satisfied with paperpile.

Easy, simple and intuitive user interface.

It is a bit annyoing that i have to renew the license annually. It would be great to have option of perpetual license . It may also be great if I can keep highlight and note in the PDF which can be reflected in paperpile interface.

I have been using Paperpile for about two and a half years. I used to use Mendeley and have used EndNote as well. Paperpile is definitely my favorite for easy cloud-based pdf management, as well as integration with Google scholar and Google docs (which I had been using for a long time before trying Paperpile). I definitely find it to be the least clunky citation management system in terms of finding, saving, and reading papers. I use it almost every day.

When it comes to actually creating a bibliography, I have had more issues with citations actually being correct with Paperpile than with Endnote. An obvious downside is Paperpile costs money, while Mendeley and Zotero are free, at least last I checked. But I like it so much for storing and reading that it's worth it to me. I've had some glitches with the display a few times (the side bar wouldn't show up correctly). I was an early tester of the Word integration and that seemed to have some issues, but it's been a while since I used it in Word, it might be better now. One thing I do miss about the paper-reading experience from Mendeley - you could take notes in a box on the side. You can do something similar with sticky notes in Paperpile but I did like that option.

I have overall really enjoyed using Paperpile and am glad I made the switch. It is hard to collaborate with others sometimes since they use other reference managers and can't edit the references (though sometimes they try and it messes it up).

I love that the interface is simple and clean, and that I can easily access the website on any device and read/look up my references.

The word plug-in, which is the most important thing to me since I write all of my papers in MS Word, can be buggy at times and sometimes does not update with new references/has to be recompiled frequent. Once, it stopped working and just gave me errors for all of the references and I had to go through and re-enter all of the references again. That was a frustrating experience.

In research, we read many papers, but the other management systems I used (or were given for free) were so old and confusing to use that I hated using them. It was hard to learn the process of citing and managing papers. Paperpile fixed all issues I previously had. It is easy to use and quick to learn.

Paperpile is similar to other management systems, but it is so much easier to use. My favorite thing about Paperpile is that it doesn't look like it was made in the '90s with the same interface 20 years later. It's clean and sleek. Plus it is very user-friendly as it doesn't have a lot of buttons to push, but has everything right on the screen that is easy to use.

They have been improving the software since day one. Everything that I disliked has been fixed and updated.

The best parts of paperpile are its ability to import and organize papers. It's very easy to find papers in paperpile and it's very easy to share citations with others.

The worst part of paperpile is when importing papers, it often finds non-published (arXiv) version of the papers instead of their published counter parts. Additionally, the default cite-key format is undesirable (and I'm under the impression that it's not possible to change the cite-key format).

Fantastic software that improves scientific writing efficiency like no other. A must for anyone in research!

The integration of Paperpile into Google Chrome is seamless and drastically improves efficiency when scouring for journal articles. It has helped me to organize my list of journal articles, organize and reorganize references while writing and submitting to different scientific journals, and the search feature within your own library and through Google has saved me so much time.

I wish there was a way to link a university account to Paperpile so I could download articles using my university VPN & account. I currently have to use a VPN or proxy server each time I visit a journal's site. Sometimes I forget about this so when I download metadata from Paperpile directly, the PDF does not come along with it and I have to search, download, and upload it separately. The Microsoft Word functions are still buggy, but luckily I use Google Docs which it runs smoothly on.

As a team leaders and project manager, I often need to co-author reports that cite a lot of scientific research and government documents (conservation plans, for example). Managing the references, bibliography, and collections of publications would be a nightmare without Paperpile. I'm currently teaching it to my colleagues.

Ability to "cite while you write" in a Google doc, sharable library folders, multiple easy ways to add publications, storage of publications in Google drive, responsive and helpful online user support.

There are those links that remain on the citations in a document that appear to be broken. I've learned to clear them out (see my conversation in the help forum). At first I thought they were supposed to link to the record in shared PP folder, which would be nice, or to the corresponding entry in the bibiography at the bottom of the document (also great), but they are just artifacts of the citation editing process. It has caused confusion with my co-editors and I always have to explain it. That said, overall there is very little to not-like about Paperpile!

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.

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.

Great & easy to use. Definitely has increased my productivity.

Super easy to add papers straight from google search page and google scholar. Tagging and organizing papers is easy. Integration with the iOS app is great for taking notes on an iPad. Good integration with google docs and Overleaf.

No complaints. It would be great to have an academic discount for students.

Amazing. Paperpile is the best having used zotero, endnote, and modzilla

Very easy to pull PDFs after finding article online. Folders and labels. Ability to take notes on each article. Love the annotation on PDFs.

For some reason bibliography always gets messed up Can’t easily import new citations Makes word say non responding at first every time which is scary word is about to crash. Can only store PDFs in google drive. I use Dropbox more. Can’t query folders and labels in complex way. Can filter by clicking one at a time or control clicking multiple but is cumbersome. Sometimes pasting into notes section is formatted weird and can’t see text.

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

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.

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.

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.

Very easy integration into word and standalone with Google Docs. Very easy to use and either setting. I very much enjoy the automatic storage into Google Drive making articles available anywhere I have a Internet connection. The mobile app has almost full functionality compared to the desktop software.

Initially it didn’t have connectivity to word.

Overall, it's really easy to take care of bibliographies and their PDFs. I also like the annotation feature in ipad.

It's only working in chrome. I had to open chrome, which is not my favorite web browser. And sometimes it's slow to import paper (chrome extension is not working fast).

Overall, I find Paperpile to be very convenient and easy to use.

I use paperpile as a way to save interesting articles and websites that I come across when doing online research. I find it to be a very convenient way to organize sources.

Sometimes it doesn't perform as well with websites as it does with journal articles. The titles, for example, often come out weird.

Continuous expansion of functionality and platforms. Flexible and customizable features. Responsive user support. Very intuitive user interface.

Nothing major jumping out now. Maybe custom fields that are searchable?