[1][2][3][4] Parts of Paperpile are implemented as a Google Chrome browser extension.

Paperpile can retrieve and store publication PDF files to the user's Google Drive account.

It formats citations and bibliographies in Google Docs,[6] which allows collaborative editing of academic papers.

Paperpile imports and exports BibTeX and RIS formats, and can migrate data from Mendeley, Zotero and Papers.

Paperpile is a web application combined with a browser extension for Google Chrome making it accessible to users on Windows, Linux, macOS, as well as ChromeOS platforms.