PHD Helper vs Paperingo

PhD life is a lot: deadlines, reading lists, writing targets, supervisor meetings, and endless admin. PhD Helper is a completely free app designed to help you manage your research journey in one calm, organised place. Built by a PhD student for PhD students, PhD Helper helps you plan your timeline, capture what you’re reading, track your writing, and keep all the little tasks and notes from slipping through the cracks. Key features PhD Roadmap: Enter your start and target finish dates and get an auto-generated timeline. Customise it with tasks, track progress, see if you’re ahead/behind, and use a countdown to stay motivated. Share with your supervisor: Export your roadmap or share it through the app so your supervisor can view it. Reading Library: Add papers and documents, tag what’s useful, take notes, and keep your sources organised. Automatic Harvard referencing: Generate Harvard references automatically and export a reference list. Writing Tracker: Time your writing sessions, add time manually if you forgot, and view stats like your top writing days and streaks. To-Dos (PhD admin included): Capture university tasks and classify them so you always know what they relate to. Brain Dump: Save ideas, paper titles, supervisor notes and more. Add images/screenshots, and capture voice notes with transcription. Profile & data control: Stay in control of your data and delete your account when you’re done. Pricing Free. No subscription required. If you want a clearer plan, a cleaner reading workflow, and a simple way to track your writing — PhD Helper is here to help.

Paperingo is a writing assistant for academic work: a term paper, a thesis, a dissertation or an article. You write the paper, and Paperingo works with you. It structures the paper, drafts and revises passages from your notes and sources, finds published works to cite, compares quotations with a source's text when that text is on file, counts the length the way your course counts it, and produces a typeset PDF with footnotes, figures and a bibliography in your citation style. A source is added by its DOI, ISBN, arXiv or PubMed ID, from a search of published research, or as an entry typed from a work you have. Paperingo cites only sources on that list, so a citation to anything else cannot appear in the PDF, and an entry typed by hand is marked as unverified. Before Paperingo reports the paper done, these checks run: • The paper compiles: every edit goes through the typesetter, and an edit that fails, such as one with a missing figure or a citation to a source not on file, is refused • Quotations and length: a quotation is compared with its source's text when that text is on file, the length is counted in your course's unit, and the page count is compared with your limit • The PDF reads correctly: its text is extracted and compared with what was written In the app you see the outline with each heading and its page, the page itself, and the conversation beside it. Select a sentence, or tap a figure or a table, to ask about it. Open any file and edit it yourself; every version is kept. Import an existing project — Typst files, figures and a bibliography — and continue from there. One plan, billed monthly; cancel anytime. You can start free, with no card. Without a subscription you can still read your papers, download the PDF and your files, and open every version. Each paper is written in the language you write in. Terms: https://paperingo.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://paperingo.com/privacy/