Features
Everything you need to write from your sources.
Read and organise your papers, ask them questions, cite as you write, check your claims and share the result: here is every part of Papernex, and what each plan includes.
Writing and editing
An editor made for academic writing
Everything a paper, thesis chapter or proposal needs, with the AI one keystroke away and never in your way.
Rich academic editor
Headings, lists, to-do lists, quotes, highlights, text colour, links and code blocks, with Markdown shortcuts and drag handles to move blocks around.
Tables
Insert tables with a header row, then add or delete rows and columns, merge and split cells from the table toolbar.
Equations and images
Write inline LaTeX math that renders on the page, and upload images you can resize in place.
Templates to start from
Research paper (IMRaD), thesis chapter, thesis or dissertation, literature review, research proposal, grant proposal, systematic review protocol (PRISMA-P), survey study, lab report and argumentative essay.
Version history
Save a version with ⌘S before each round of feedback, browse earlier versions and restore any of them.
Free 5 / Pro 100 per document
Word count and save status
Words, characters, paragraphs and reading time, and a status that shows when your work is saved.
AI assistance
An assistant that shows where its answers come from
Ask about your papers, draft and revise with AI, and keep every suggestion as a preview until you decide.
AI Chat over your library
Ask questions about the PDFs in your library. Each point in the answer is numbered to the paper and page it came from; click a source to open the PDF at that page.
Free 20 / Pro 500 a day
Focus the chat
Attach up to five sources to a conversation, include the document you are writing, and pick up any earlier chat where you left it.
Insert answers with citations
“Insert to doc” places an answer below your cursor and turns its numbers into real citations in your chosen style.
Web search in chat
Switch on web search for a conversation when you need recent information; web results are cited with links you can open.
Ask AI writing commands
Select text and improve it, fix spelling and grammar, make it shorter or longer, simplify it, switch to an academic tone, paraphrase or explain it. At the cursor: continue writing, write a paragraph, summarise, outline or draft a conclusion.
Free 10 / Pro 200 a day
Autocomplete
The next sentence appears in grey as you type. Press Tab to accept it, Esc to dismiss it, or switch it off.
Free 50 / Pro 5,000 a day
Workspace AI instructions
Tell the assistant once about your field, tone and citation habits, and every AI feature in the workspace follows it.
Pro
Library and sources
Your papers, organised and searchable
Upload PDFs or bring your existing references; Papernex fills in the details and reads every paper page by page.
PDF upload with details filled in
Upload up to ten PDFs at once. Titles, authors, DOI, journal, publication date and abstract are filled in for you, and each paper is indexed page by page.
Free 50 / Pro 150 pages per PDF
Import from your reference manager
Import BibTeX (.bib), RIS, CSL-JSON or Zotero RDF files from Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote and others, and export your library as .bib.
Zotero sync
Connect your Zotero library and bring it in; syncing again brings only what changed.
Collections, tags and reading status
Nested collections, tags, stars and unread, reading or read, with filters, bulk actions and a tool that finds and merges duplicates.
Free 10 / Pro 100 collections
Search inside every PDF
Search the full text of your library and cite a matching passage with its page number in one click.
PDF reader with highlights
Highlight in colour, add notes, cite or copy a passage with its page, and pick up where you stopped reading.
Paper insights
An on-demand summary of each paper: research question, key findings and limitations with page numbers, methods, sample, contributions and keywords.
Notes on every source
Keep private notes on each paper, or draft structured notes with AI: question, methods, findings, limitations and quotes with pages.
Discover
Find the papers you have not read yet
Search more than 250 million scholarly works without leaving your draft.
Search 250 million+ works
Filter by year, citation count, field, type of work and open access, and sort by relevance, citations or date.
Follow the citation trail
Open a paper's references, the papers that cite it and related work, and add any of them to your library or a collection.
Import free PDFs
When a paper is open access, bring its PDF straight into your library, ready to read, ask about and cite.
Citations and references
Cite as you write, in the style you need
Citations are real records, not generated text, so the whole document can switch styles at any time.
Cite with @
Type @ to search your library, Discover or the web, paste a DOI, ISBN, arXiv ID, PubMed ID or URL, or enter a reference by hand.
Citation options
Parenthetical, narrative or year-only citations, page numbers and other locators, and a prefix or suffix; jump from a citation to the cited page.
45+ citation styles
APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, AMA, ACS, Nature, Science, OSCOLA and more, grouped as author–date, numeric and footnote styles.
Automatic reference list
References, Works Cited or Bibliography, kept up to date as you cite, with DOI links; copy it or download it as .bib or .ris.
Pro
Research tools
Tools for the hard parts of research writing
Step-by-step workflows that work from your library, plus diagrams, data analysis and slides inside the editor.
Literature review
Groups the evidence in your library or a collection into themes and writes a cited review as a new document, in short, medium or long form.
Research gap analysis
Maps where your sources agree, where they conflict and what nobody has studied yet, with citations.
Outline and section drafts
Turn a research question into an outline with notes and sources for each heading, then draft any section from your library, with citations.
Rewrite a section
Rewrite a whole section in an academic, formal, concise, simpler or persuasive tone while keeping its citations.
Revision plan from feedback
Paste your supervisor's or reviewers' comments and get a prioritised checklist; each item links to its passage and suggests rewordings you can apply.
Diagrams
Flowcharts, mind maps, timelines, Gantt charts and sequence diagrams, drawn from your text or a description, editable at any time and included in every export.
Data analysis
Load a CSV or paste from a spreadsheet, then run descriptive statistics, frequencies, cross-tabs with χ², correlations, Cronbach's α, t-tests and ANOVA. Insert an APA table, a chart and a results paragraph. Your data stays in your browser.
Slides from your document
Turn a paper into a PowerPoint deck for a defense, conference talk or class, with speaker notes, figures and references, in a choice of themes.
Reviews
Check your draft before you submit
Two reviews that catch the problems a reader or examiner would: claims your sources do not support, and sources you should not rely on.
Claim confidence
Checks each cited sentence against the passages of the papers it cites and marks it supported, weakly supported, overstated, unsupported, contradicted or misrepresented, flags claims that need a citation, and suggests a fix or a source.
Free 3 / Pro 100 a month
Source quality
Flags cited sources that were retracted, have an expression of concern or a correction, are preprints, are rarely cited, are old for the field, or have incomplete details.
Collaboration
Write with co-authors and supervisors
Work in shared workspaces, edit together in real time and keep the discussion next to the text.
Real-time co-editing
Edit the same document at the same time, with live cursors and names, and see who else is in the document.
Workspaces
Invite people by email, manage members and switch between workspaces for each project, lab or course.
Free 1 / Pro 5 workspaces
Comments and @mentions
Comment on any passage, reply in threads, resolve and reopen, and @mention a co-author to notify them.
Notifications
In the app and by email for comments, replies, mentions, invitations and document changes, with a switch for each kind.
Export
Export when it is ready to submit
Take your document wherever it needs to go, with its citations and reference list intact.
PDF, Word and plain text
Download as Word (.docx) or plain text on every plan. One-click PDF export is on Pro; every plan can print to PDF.
One-click PDF: Pro
LaTeX and Overleaf
Export a LaTeX project with your references and figures, or open it in Overleaf directly.
References and slides
Download the document's references as .bib or .ris, and its slide deck as PowerPoint (.pptx).
Everywhere you work
Comfortable on every screen
Sign in with Google and pick up on any device.
Light and dark mode
Choose light, dark or follow your system setting.
Phone and tablet layouts
A layout for small screens with a bottom tab bar, so you can read, chat and review on the go.
Private workspaces
Your drafts and uploads stay inside your workspace and are encrypted in transit and at rest.
Write your next chapter from your sources.
Upload a few papers, ask what they say, and cite them as you write. The free plan needs no credit card.