Collaborate on Paperpal: Your AI Collaboration Tool for Real-Time Academic Writing and Editing

Seamless Collaboration, Now on Paperpal 

Academic writing is rarely a solo journey. Whether you’re co-authoring a research article, refining a PhD thesis chapter with supervisor feedback, or preparing a joint conference paper, collaboration is at the heart of scholarship. Yet, the process is often messy: endless email attachments, merged versions, lost comments, and confusing tracked changes. This not only eats into your precious research time; it also leaves room for lapses and errors. 

At Paperpal, we believe students, researchers, and educators deserve better. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Paperpal Collaborate, which enables real-time writing collaboration, with faster reviews and easier revisions, all while ensuring your file stays secure. With this new feature, Paperpal emerges as more than just an AI writing tool—it transforms into a complete research collaboration platform built to empower academics across career stages. 

Why Collaboration Needed a Smarter Fix? 

Collaborative writing or editing often requires academic teams to juggle multiple tools and versions. Traditional collaboration practices frequently lead to version control confusion with the risk of losing critical edits, technical glitches that impact productivity and author trust, or feedback contradictions and delays that slow down writing momentum.  

These challenges of academic teamwork are familiar and important to solve for, so we asked our users what they would want to see in an AI collaboration tool. Here’s what is on top of their wish list: 

1. Support with real-time sharing and feedback—no chasing drafts via email.
2. Simple incorporation of peer feedback without losing context or meaning. 
3. Seamless teamwork, with 4-5 members each working on different sections 
4. Ability to share/work on documents without privacy or security concerns 

With a clear understanding of what students and researchers need, we set out to develop Paperpal’s AI collaboration tool that brings these capabilities into one secure streamlined space, designed for the unique demands of academic work. 

How Paperpal Collaborate Can Help You? 

1. Co-Write Seamlessly 

No more emailing drafts. Multiple authors can work on the same document simultaneously, from anywhere. With collaborative writing built directly into Paperpal, everyone is always working on the latest draft. 

2. Track Others’ Changes  

The collaborative editing tool includes a Document Timeline that records every change, by whom, and when. You can review version history and restore earlier versions anytime, so there’s no fear of losing your work. 

3. Stay in Control 

As the document owner and admin, you decide who gets what level of access. Assign collaborators either View-only or Edit rights, with the option to update or revoke their access at any time. 

4. Collaborate Without Boundaries 

This collaborative document editing feature is not limited to Paperpal users. You can share your work and invite colleagues to collaborate, even if they’re not on Paperpal. All you need is their email address. 

5. Protect Your Work 

Only you control who gets access to your documents. Collaborators cannot forward or reshare your work without your permission. 

6. Smart Comments (Coming Soon!) 

We’re working on enabling comments for a more focused form of collaborative document review. This streamlined commenting system will allow you to insert and reply to comments without cluttering the document, speeding up the collaborative writing and editing process. 

How to Collaborate on Paperpal’s Online Editor 

It’s simple to get started with our AI collaboration tool. Here’s a quick step-by-step guide to help you begin your first collaborative document editing session on Paperpal. 

1. In your Paperpal online editor, click the three-dot menu (top-right) and select Share. 

2. Enter your collaborators’ email addresses (up to 5 per document) and choose their access level—Edit or View-only. Once you hit send, your collaborators will get an email notification with a unique link to your document. 

3. To add new collaborators, or change/revoke access of existing collaborators, go back to the Share option, under the 3-dot menu.  

4. Click the 3-dot menu (top-right corner of shared documents) to access the Document Timeline and see who made changes, when, or restore earlier versions if needed. 

5. All shared documents—whether shared by you or with you—appear under the “Shared” tab on your Paperpal Dashboard.  

And just like that, you’re all set for smooth real-time writing collaboration on Paperpal. 

Work Smarter, Together: End-to-End Academic Writing 

Paperpal now rivals the best research collaboration platforms, but unlike generic AI writing tools, Paperpal combines collaborative writing with reliable academic-specific AI assistance. That means you can co-write while also generating outlines, finding and citing references, checking for plagiarism, or refining language and tone—all without leaving our online editor. 

Every tool you need to craft brilliant research documents is now on Paperpal, so use this trusted AI academic assistant to collaborate from start to finish. 

• Review the literature with powerful research discovery and Chat PDF tools  
• Synthesize your literature review into citation-backed notes  
• Build notes into drafts with contextual AI writing assistance, find strong citations to support your arguments, style citations automatically  
• Co-write with your peers; share, receive, and incorporate feedback  
• Paraphrase and refine your writing, get AI-powered insights on structure and flow  
• Fix grammar, enhance readability, correct inconsistent use of terms and labels  
• Run finalization checks such as plagiarism detection and journal submission readiness checks  

Collaboration shouldn’t slow you down. With Paperpal’s real-time writing collaboration, every stage of academic writing—from brainstorming to submission—can now be done together, seamlessly, in one secure space. Whether you’re drafting a multi-author paper, sharing feedback with your advisor, or managing a student team project, Paperpal is the best AI collaboration tool built for you. 

Discover how seamless, secure, and productive academic teamwork can be—Collaborate on Paperpal now and write smarter, together. 

Paperpal is a comprehensive AI writing toolkit that helps students and researchers achieve 2x the writing in half the time. It leverages 23+ years of STM experience and insights from millions of research articles to provide in-depth academic writing, language editing, and submission readiness support to help you write better, faster. 

Get accurate academic translations, rewriting support, grammar checks, vocabulary suggestions, and generative AI assistance that delivers human precision at machine speed. Try for free or upgrade to Paperpal Prime starting at US$25 a month to access premium features, including consistency, plagiarism, and 30+ submission readiness checks to help you succeed. 

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