paperpile.com

Paperpile

Who runs Paperpile, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest reference management software alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Mendeley

Measured from Paperpile’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Paperpile

Paperpile paperpile.com

Paperpile is a clean and simple reference manager that makes it easy to collect, organize, share, and cite your research papers.

Wikidata: Paperpile is a web-based commercial reference management software with special emphasis on integration with Google Docs and Google Scholar

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Paperpile tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

14 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 3 tools

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS
- MixpanelUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Paperpile

Fewer trackers than Paperpile No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Paperpile match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Paperpile adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 9 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 72 ms

Built with

Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Mixpanel page source: cdn.mxpnl.com
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Security: reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms91452755
Email delivery: Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 a include:spf.mail.intercom.io include:spf.mandrillapp.com inc…
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-835.awsdns-40.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: NYgwfhsSBZ0cQ0zVQgEBBZJyYNEtWH7t7ShIyfISazs

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.