PaperPilot

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Account deletion

Users can request account deletion by email, and PaperPilot says it will remove profile and usage history within seven days.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

Data handling

Paper text is sent to the API for summary generation and is not persisted afterward; generated summaries are cached by canonical paper ID.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

Integrations

Google handles sign-in, Stripe handles billing, and Anthropic provides the language model for summaries.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

PDF support

The Chrome extension side panel works on every tab, including PDFs.chromewebstore.google.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Privacy claims

PaperPilot says it does not train models on user content, sell or rent personal data, or use advertising trackers, session replay, or browser fingerprinting.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

Publisher coverage

It supports 14 publishers: arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PubMed, Nature, Science, ScienceDirect, Springer, Wiley, PLOS, Frontiers, MDPI, ACM, and IEEE.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

Purpose

PaperPilot adds a Summarize button to research paper pages and generates structured AI summaries for triage.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

Source links

Each summary section links to its supporting passage in the source paper.chromewebstore.google.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Summary caveat

The terms say AI-generated summaries may contain errors and should not replace reading the source paper.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

Summary sections

Summaries cover Problem, Approach, Key Results, Limitations, Related Work, and Why It Matters.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

Support

Support questions, bug reports, and feature requests can be sent to [email protected].chromewebstore.google.com · read 4 Oct 2026

Workflow

It extracts paper text from the page and streams a summary into a sidebar; cached papers return instantly.paperpilot.tools · read 4 Oct 2026

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