# Future-Scholars/paperlib

An open-source academic paper management tool.

Repository: https://github.com/Future-Scholars/paperlib
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/paperlib
Homepage: https://paperlib.app
Language: TypeScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: academic-paper, management, computer-science, computer-vision, neural-language-processing, math, science, paper-management, academic, references
Last push: 2026-04-01T23:01:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 75, release rhythm 18, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2060, "days_push": 154, "days_rel": 339, "gap_med": 280, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2274, forks 112 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:33.326795+00:00)

## What it is
Paperlib is an open-source, cross-platform desktop application for managing academic papers, built with TypeScript and Electron. It scrapes paper metadata from multiple databases, organizes libraries with tags and folders, and exports references while writing papers.

## Use cases
- manage academic papers and pdfs
- scrape metadata for conference papers without DOI
- export citations when writing a paper draft
- organize a research paper library with tags and folders
- follow new publications via RSS feeds
- search my paper library semantically with natural language
- replace Zotero or Mendeley for reference management
- copy-paste references into MS Word

## When to choose
- you mostly cite conference papers (CS/ML) that lack DOI metadata
- you want accurate automated metadata scraping with customizable scrapers
- you prefer a modern, minimal UI over Zotero/Mendeley
- you want an extensible plugin system including LLM-powered features

## When to avoid
- you need deep PDF annotation and note-taking workflows
- you rely on group collaboration features of established reference managers
- you need a web or mobile client rather than a desktop app

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, plugin-system, web-scraping, pdf, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, education
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: academic-papers, reference-management, metadata-scraping, citation, bibliography, rss-feeds, cloud-sync, zotero-alternative, llm-extensions, natural-language-processing, macos, linux, desktop, electron

## Member repositories
- Future-Scholars/paperlib (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.326795+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:41:31.975047+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Future-Scholars/paperlib (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.326795+00:00, sha 2039f9935e24)
  - homepage: https://paperlib.app (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:19.745281+00:00, sha 03e9835eae04)
  - site_page: https://paperlib.app/en/doc/getting-started.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:19.755938+00:00, sha 3e29611abeea)
  - site_page: https://paperlib.app/en/extension-doc (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:19.754014+00:00, sha 64c34601d837)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.