Is Paperpile Extension safe?

Clean risk

Save academic references and PDFs to Paperpile while browsing publisher and research sites.

This extension works with the Paperpile reference manager to collect papers, extract citation information, and download PDFs from academic websites. It supports Paperpile features such as PDF annotation in Chrome, Google Docs citations and bibliographies, Google Drive sync, and sending PDFs from a Paperpile library to supported AI tools.

Paperpilev1.5.1179Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

Paperpile LLC - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
Paperpile
Declared legal entity
Paperpile LLC
Registered address
245 First St, Cambridge, MA 02142-1200, US
Registered contact
Stefan Washietl
Website
paperpile.com/help

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 60k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

BibGuru60k+Clean

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

Publishers can request a review.

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Paperpile contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.

  • paperpile.com

    Paperpile sends data to paperpile.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

  • Google Drivewidely used

    Paperpile sends data to Google Drive. Named as a recipient by 38 other extensions we have analysed.

  • ChatGPT

    Paperpile sends data to ChatGPT. Named as a recipient by 7 other extensions we have analysed.

  • Claude

    Paperpile sends data to Claude. Named as a recipient by 6 other extensions we have analysed.

  • Gemini

    Paperpile sends data to Gemini. Named as a recipient by 4 other extensions we have analysed.

  • Google Docs

    Paperpile sends data to Google Docs. Named as a recipient by 4 other extensions we have analysed.

  • Copilot

    Paperpile sends data to Copilot. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

  • NotebookLM

    Paperpile sends data to NotebookLM. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

Updated 30 September 2026bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig