Description
Collect, organize, annotate and cite your research papers in Chrome.
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Ranking Summary
Overall Rank
Extension Rank
"Browser Extension" Keyword
"Blog" Keyword
"Summarize Pdf" Keyword
"Reference" Keyword
"Permissions" Keyword
"Management" Keyword
"Forum" Keyword
"Google Docs" Keyword
"Google" Keyword
"Extension" Keyword
"Chrome Extension" Keyword
Review Summary
Paperpile Extension is highly praised for its seamless Google Docs integration, efficient paper organization, and ease of citation management, appealing to students and researchers. It synchronizes well across devices and offers responsive customer support. However, multiple users report bugs like citation formatting failures, crashes, and annotation issues, particularly on Android. Stability setbacks sometimes require reinstalling the extension. Pricing and free trial communication are also concerns. Overall, while its core features are strong and valued, users experience consistent software bugs that affect reliability.
Pros
- Excellent tool for academics, students, and researchers for managing citations and papers.
- Seamless integration with Google Docs and Google Drive, making citation insertion and paper writing easier.
- Organizes papers efficiently, supports cloud syncing across multiple devices including Mac, Windows, iPad, and Android.
- Allows quick saving of papers from the web with just a click and easy reformatting of citation styles.
- Good customer support, responsive to bugs and issues reported by users.
Cons
- Recurring issues with the citation insertion and formatting functionality, including authorization bugs preventing citation formatting.
- Bugs causing the extension or Chrome to crash unexpectedly, disrupting workflow.
- Problems with the Paperpile PDF viewer, such as missed clicks when highlighting text and unstable annotation syncing in the Android app.
- Occasional requirement to frequently uninstall and reinstall the extension to maintain functionality, indicating stability concerns.
- Subscription pricing can be expensive and trial details unclear, leading some users to feel misled.
Permissions
This extension can:
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
- contextMenus
- tabs
- scripting
- declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
- offscreen
- cookies
This extension can access:
- http://*/
- https://*/
Additional Information
1.5.828
April 3, 2025
9.53 MB
en
Developer Information
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