Paperpile Alternatives

Paperpile is described as 'Organize your research papers in a Gmail-like web app, sync your PDFs to Google Drive and cite your references in Google Docs' and is a popular research manager in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Paperpile for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Paperpile alternative is Zotero, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Paperpile are Mendeley, Qiqqa, JabRef and DEVONthink.

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  1. BibMe icon
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    BibMe is a free automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages external databases to quickly fill citation information for you. BibMe will then format the citation information and compile a bibliography according to the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. KBibTeX icon
     9 likes

    KBibTeX is a reference management software primarily for BibTeX which is typically used in conjunction with TeX/LaTeX.

    34 KBibTeX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Weava icon
     15 likes

    Weava is a collaborative workplace for research offering an easy way to highlight, organize and collaborate on your research articles.

    57 Weava alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  4. Afforai icon
     2 likes

    Afforai is the AI-powered reference manager for modern researchers, helping researchers manage, annotate, cite papers and conduct literature reviews with AI reliably. Afforai was built to assist every kind of researcher, whether you are a student, professor, or researcher of 50-years.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. CleverGhost icon
     1 like

    AI-powered PDF toolkit for macOS. Chat with documents, organize research with Smart Folders, and compress files—all 100% private and on-device.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. TextCite icon
     9 likes

    Program for organizing and commenting textual citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use in producing scientific or academic publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Citations icon
     1 like

    Manage your bibliographies using the BibTeX format.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  8. Mick Schroeder’s automatic citation generator. Create a bibliography from a URL, PubMed ID, DOI, ISBN, etc… Style with AMA, APA, APA, NLM, + 9000 more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Benubird PDF icon
     16 likes

    Benubird PDF makes personal document management simple: capture, organize and retrieve your PDF documents effortlessly. Managing files is easy with virtual folders and powerful metadata filters. Guaranteed to save you time and revolutionize the way you work with your documents.

    25 Benubird PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. SCIENTILLA icon
     21 likes

    Scientilla is a new approach to give the scientific community an open, free, accurate, tidy and up-to-date production reporting solution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. bibus icon
     5 likes

    Bibus is a bibliographic database. It uses a MySQL or SQLite database to store references. It can directly insert references in OpenOffice.org and MS Word and generate the bibliographic index.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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