CiteDrive BibTeX Studio vs Paperpile
CiteDrive BibTeX Studio
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Paperpile
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| Figure | CiteDrive BibTeX Studio | Paperpile |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4.17/mo | $4.15/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 3 |
| Spec score · Reference Management Software | 8.2 (#10) | 8.2 (#12) |
| Spec score · Citation Management Software | 8.2 (#9) | 8.2 (#11) |
| Collaboration | Projects support Owner, Admin, Editor, and Viewer roles, and invited members need a valid CiteDrive account. | Paperpile describes shared folders, shared libraries, access permissions, and collaborative PDF annotations and citations. |
| Founded | 2020 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Columbus, Ohio, United States and Düsseldorf, Germany | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Purpose | BibTeX Studio is a web application for creating modular bibliographies and citations based on BibTeX and BibLaTeX. | Paperpile describes itself as a home for research papers and says its goal is to simplify collecting, managing, and writing papers. |
| Support | The privacy policy lists [email protected] for users who want to opt out of communications. | Paperpile directs questions to [email protected]. |
Plans
CiteDrive BibTeX Studio
- Monthly Plan$5 a month
- Annual Plan$50 a year
Paperpile
- Regular$4.15 a month
- Expert$5.75 a month
- Enterprise and InstitutionsPriced on request
In their own words
CiteDrive BibTeX Studio
CiteDrive BibTeX Studio has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Paperpile
Paperpile is a reference manager for collecting, organizing and writing with research papers. It can import references, extract PDF metadata, organize libraries with folders and labels, detect duplicates, repair metadata and search collections. Plans include unlimited storage for research PDFs. Citation support includes more than 10,000 styles, with plugins for Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Shared folders and libraries, access permissions, and collaborative PDF annotations and citations support group work. The Android and iOS apps sync with the web library and support highlights, notes and drawn annotations. Users can also search 150 million articles across sources including PubMed, arXiv and CrossRef, and save PDFs with one tap. Integrations include Google Drive sync, Overleaf, browser extensions, and academic databases and publishers. Regular costs $4.15 a month and Expert costs $5.75 a month, with all plans billed annually; a 30-day trial is available. New sign-ups are currently available on Chrome, while Safari and Firefox access is in beta.