Features

With Papers across all of your devices, enjoy a powerful suite of features that will streamline your research life and keep you one step ahead.

Papersapp on iOS and macOS

Search & Download

  • Powerful built-in search
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Related article feeds
  • Institutional proxy support
  • Web importing via browser
  • 1-click PDF downloads
  • Advanced search filters
  • Bulk Import (.csv, .bib, .ris)

Stay Organized

  • Easy importing tools from your desktop/other reference managers
  • Auto article meta-data matching
  • Full text library search
  • Advanced sorting & filtering
  • Manual & smart collections
  • #keyword tagging, labels & article ratings
  • File management & watch folders
  • Auto-organizing smart lists
  • Retraction alerts

Read & Annotate

  • Enhanced PDF viewing
  • Hyperlinked inline references and high-res figure browsers
  • Auto-fetched supplements
  • Advanced article metrics (incl. citations, field & relative citation ratio, and Altmetric)
  • Contextual citations
  • Inline and sticky notes, highlighting and drawing tools
  • Text to speech tool

Share & Collaborate

  • Up to 5 private shared collections (PDFs/references)
  • Collaborate with up to 30 Papers users per collection
  • Share references, PDFs, notes, tags and PDF annotations
  • Article discussion summary
  • Public library links

Cite Faster

  • Insert references from personal / shared libraries or use built-in search engine.
  • 10000+ citation styles supported. Customize & import your own
  • Copy to clipboard formatted citations
  • Export reference list for use in third party citation tools like EndNote and Overleaf
  • Add-ins to supports Word 2016+ & Google Docs
  • Citekey citation support for Pages, LibreOffice, Manuscripts App & more
  • Endnote citation converter
  • Custom language preferences

Sync Across Devices

  • Unlimited cloud storage for your personal library
  • Sync your entire library including files, notes, lists, annotations, and highlights across all of your devices
  • Supports Desktop (Mac/PC), mobile (iOS/Android) and Web.
  • Theme Support (Dark Mode)

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