---
title: "Paperpile Extension – Chrome extension stats, history and permissions"
description: "200,000 users, rated 4.13 by 194 people. Version 1.5.1218, updated 2026-11-12. Requests 11 permissions."
url: "https://extensiontracker.com/extension/bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig"
---

# Paperpile Extension

Live in the Chrome Web Store.

- Users: 200,000
- Rating: 4.13 from 194 ratings
- Last checked: 2026-11-13 05:33 UTC
- Users gained in 7 days: No change
- Users gained in 30 days: −100,000 (-33.3%)
- Rank by users: #784 of 292,125 live extensions
- Rank in Education: #30 of 12,901

## The listing

What the Chrome Web Store shows, as of the last check.

Summary from the listing:

> Collect, organize, annotate and cite your research papers in Chrome.

- Extension ID: `bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig`
- Developer: [Paperpile LLC](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u25bd6141c8c4000a3b10ba2b67aab7be)
- Enhanced Safe Browsing: Trusted ([what this means](https://extensiontracker.com/enhanced-safe-browsing))
- Category: [Productivity › Education](https://extensiontracker.com/category/productivity/education)
- First published: 2013-04-22
- Last updated: 2026-11-12
- Version: `1.5.1218`
- Size: 10.94 MiB
- Minimum Chrome: 103
- Languages (1): English
- Website: `https://paperpile.com/`
- Support page: `https://paperpile.com/help`
- Chrome Web Store: <https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/paperpile-extension/bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig>
- View its code or download CRX: <https://crxpeek.com/extension/bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig>
- Search Google for the ID: <https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig%22&tbs=li:1>

## Users over time

One row per check, newest first, as shown on the Chrome Web Store.

| Checked | Users | Rating | Ratings |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-11-13 | 200,000 | 4.13 | 194 |
| 2026-11-06 | 200,000 | 4.13 | 194 |
| 2026-10-30 | 300,000 | 4.13 | 194 |
| 2026-10-23 | 200,000 | 4.13 | 194 |
| 2026-10-21 | 300,000 | 4.13 | 194 |
| 2026-10-13 | 300,000 | 4.57 | 194 |
| 2026-10-06 | 300,000 | 4.57 | 194 |
| 2026-09-29 | 300,000 | 4.57 | 194 |
| 2026-09-26 | 300,000 | 4.57 | 194 |

## What changed

Every change found on a check, newest first.

- 2026-11-13: New version `1.5.1218`, replacing `1.5.1201`.
- 2026-10-23: New version `1.5.1201`, replacing `1.5.1188`.
- 2026-09-29: New version `1.5.1188`, replacing `1.5.1182`.

## Developer history

Moves to another publisher account and new contact emails, newest first.

No move to another account and no new contact email since tracking began on 2026-09-26.

We know contact emails only by a keyed hash, so they're never shown. Recent changes: [Account and contact changes](https://extensiontracker.com/owners/).

## What it can access

From the extension's manifest, in plain language.

**Every website:** it can read and change your data on all the sites you visit.

### Sites

- `http://*/`: Every website
- `https://*/`: Every website

### Sites where it runs scripts

- `*://app.paperpile.com/*`: app.paperpile.com

### Browser features

- `alarms`: Run tasks on a schedule
- `contextMenus`: Add items to the right-click menu
- `cookies`: Read and change cookies on the sites it can reach
- `declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess`: Block or change network requests on the sites it can reach
- `offscreen`: Open a hidden page for background work
- `scripting`: Run scripts on sites it can reach
- `storage`: Save settings and data in your browser
- `tabs`: Read the addresses and titles of your tabs
- `unlimitedStorage`: Store more data than the usual limit

### Asked for later, if you agree

- `file://*/`: Every website

## More from this developer

Other extensions from the same publisher account.

| Extension | Users | Rating | Ratings | Category |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [BibGuru: Free Citation Generator](https://extensiontracker.com/extension/locfkepdjehnijbhbhalhlbpcjlngiil) | 60,000 | 4.54 | 24 | Education |

All 2 extensions by [Paperpile LLC](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u25bd6141c8c4000a3b10ba2b67aab7be).

## About this data

Collected from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing. It's checked every week, because it has 1,000 or more users, and again whenever a new version appears. Last checked 2026-11-13 05:33 UTC; next check around 2026-11-19.

How the data is collected: <https://extensiontracker.com/methodology>.

## Cite this page

Extension Tracker. “Paperpile Extension” (bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig). Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-11-13. https://extensiontracker.com/extension/bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig. Accessed 2026-11-13.

```bibtex
@misc{extensiontracker_bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig,
  title   = {Paperpile Extension (bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig)},
  author  = {{Extension Tracker}},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-11-13},
  url     = {https://extensiontracker.com/extension/bomfdkbfpdhijjbeoicnfhjbdhncfhig},
  urldate = {2026-11-13}
}
```

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