ReadCube Papers
ReadCube Papers is a platform for discovering, reading, organizing, and citing scientific literature.
What ReadCube Papers is
ReadCube Papers is a platform for discovering, reading, organizing, and citing scientific literature. It brings PDF annotation, literature monitoring, reference management, and tools for research workflows together across Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and web, with an API and browser extension. Readers can highlight, underline, draw, and add notes or sticky comments to PDFs. Its AI assistant answers questions about a library and compares up to 20 papers, but is available only in the web version. Saved searches can bring new papers into a library and trigger daily, weekly, or monthly alerts. For systematic reviews, the platform supports dual-reviewer screening, custom extraction forms, AI autofill, and PRISMA exports. The browser extension imports articles from sources such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Dimensions, and journal sites. ReadCube Papers has no free plan; Essentials costs $10 a month, and Plus costs $20 a month per user. A 30-day trial is listed. Desktop PDF access offline is limited to desktop application version 4.37.xxxx.
Good
- Annotates PDFs with notes, highlights, and drawings.
- Saved searches can send recurring alerts.
- Supports systematic-review screening and PRISMA exports.
- Browser extension imports articles from research sources.
- Available across mobile, desktop, and web.
Watch out
- No free plan is listed.
- AI Assistant is available only on the web.
- Offline PDF access requires desktop version 4.37.xxxx.
- Essentials costs $10 a month.
Who it suits
It suits researchers and teams managing scientific literature, systematic reviews, or enterprise research workflows. It may also suit writers who want to connect references with Overleaf.
Verdict
ReadCube Papers combines literature discovery, PDF work, citation organization, and review workflows. Its web-only AI and version-specific offline access are important limits to weigh.
Plans and prices
From ReadCube Papers's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $10 a month | 1 user · 5 shared libraries · 5 AI chats/day · $10 per month |
| Plus | $20 a month | Up to 10 users per group · unlimited PDF storage · chat with up to 20 articles · 20 AI chats/day · 1 library chat/day · $20 per user/month |
| Essentials | $95 a year | 1 user · 5 shared libraries · 5 AI chats/day · $95 per user/year |
| Plus | $185 a year | Up to 10 users per group · unlimited PDF storage · chat with up to 20 articles · 20 AI chats/day · 1 library chat/day · $185 per user/year |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | No limit on users · unlimited shared libraries · SSO and group management · dedicated support, training and onboarding · Pricing based on requirements |
| Team | Priced on request | Up to 25 users per group · advanced library permissions · document delivery add-on · Pricing based on requirements |
The facts
Each one read from ReadCube Papers's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI assistant
- The AI can answer questions from a library and compare up to 20 papers at once.checked 1 Oct 2026
- AI availability limit
- The AI Assistant is currently available only in the web version of Papers.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Data protection
- ReadCube uses AWS for storage and sends files over HTTPS with 256-bit TLS where supported.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Desktop support
- The desktop app is compatible with Mac and Windows operating systems and requires 64-bit architecture.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Enterprise workflows
- The literature-management solution connects systems including Veeva Vault, SharePoint and Salesforce to a library.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Literature monitoring
- Saved recurring searches can add new papers to a library and send daily, weekly or monthly alerts.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Offline PDF access is available only on the desktop application version 4.37.xxxx.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Overleaf integration
- Users can connect a ReadCube library with an Overleaf.com account to access and cite references while writing.checked 1 Oct 2026
- PDF annotation
- Users can highlight, underline, draw, add notes and add sticky comments directly on PDFs.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ReadCube is a platform to discover, read, organize and cite scientific literature.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Research coverage
- The platform says its answers are drawn from 165M+ publications and 182M+ patents.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Security certification
- ReadCube Papers is covered by Digital Science's independently audited ISO/IEC 27001:2013 information-security system.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Enterprise plans include dedicated support, training and onboarding, while the site provides a help center and support-ticket channel.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Systematic reviews
- ReadCube supports dual-reviewer screening, custom data-extraction forms, AI autofill and PRISMA exports.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Target users
- ReadCube lists use cases including R&D teams, medical affairs, pharmacovigilance, corporate libraries, government and regulatory organizations.checked 1 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser extension
- The browser extension imports articles from Dimensions, PubMed, Google Scholar and journal websites and can import associated PDFs when possible.checked 1 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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