CiteCreate vs Paperpal
CiteCreate
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| Figure | CiteCreate | Paperpal |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $11.58/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 15 |
| Spec score · Citation generators | 7.6 (#36) | 8.7 (#8) |
| Spec score · AI Citation Generators | 7.6 (#19) | 8.8 (#5) |
| Audience | The site describes citation styles for academic fields including psychology, humanities, engineering, chemistry, biology, sociology, and medicine. | Paperpal describes its tools as designed for students and researchers, and offers solutions for universities and publishers. |
| Citation styles | It supports APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, ACS, CSE, ASA, and AMA. | Its citation generator supports more than 10,000 citation styles. |
| Integrations | BibTeX exports are described as useful for LaTeX and Overleaf, while RIS files can be imported into Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote. | Official pages list a web app, Microsoft Word add-in, Google Docs support, Chrome extension and Overleaf support. |
| Privacy | CiteCreate says it never stores text pasted into the reference checker. | Paperpal says it never uses user documents, uploads, or personal information to train its AI models and allows users to delete documents. |
Plans
Paperpal
- Prime$144 a year
- Prime$25 a month
- Pro$348 a year
- Pro$59 a month
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Prime$12 a month
- Paperpal Prime$25 a month
- Prime Monthly$25 a month
- Pro$29 a month
In their own words
CiteCreate
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Paperpal
Paperpal is an AI research and academic writing workspace for students and researchers, combining writing help, citation tools, and academic checks. Users can upload references and PDFs, ask questions, and receive cited findings from more than 300 million verified research articles. Writing tools cover academic suggestions, paraphrasing, tone changes, word reduction, grammar, proofreading, and citation formatting. Its checker suite looks for plagiarism and AI-writing patterns, checks references, and assesses journal submission readiness. Paperpal runs on the web and as a browser extension; it also offers a Microsoft Word add-in and browser-extension support for Google Docs and Overleaf. The free plan includes 200 language suggestions, five generative AI uses per day, 7,000 plagiarism-check words per month, and five daily AI-detection scans of up to 1,200 words each. Prime costs $144 a year billed annually, or $25 a month billed monthly. Pro costs $348 a year billed annually, or $59 a month billed monthly. Paperpal says it does not train its AI models on user documents, uploads, or personal information, and allows document deletion.