Every manuscript trackedfrom idea to publication.
Papertrek lays your whole pipeline on one page — where each paper stands, which revision is due, what the reviewers said — imported from ORCID, kept current by Crossref.
Field demonstration
The route below is live — click any waypoint, or log the next step from the card.
Five more manuscripts on the route — the small marks hold their stations.
A spreadsheet stores deadlines. It doesn’t chase them.
Most pipelines live in a spreadsheet, a Notion page, or someone’s memory. That holds — until you’re juggling six papers, two are under review, one revision lands next week, and nobody is sure whether the journal ever wrote back. Papertrek keeps all of it in view — and speaks up before deadlines land, not after.
Three steps, then it keeps itself.
Import your work
Connect ORCID or drop a BibTeX file. Your record arrives in seconds — nobody retypes metadata.
Walk each paper along
Move manuscripts through the stages; log submissions, revision rounds and reviewer notes as they happen.
Never miss a deadline
Every deadline — the one a revision gives you and the one you set yourself — surfaces on your dashboard, with lead time to actually finish.
Built for the submission lifecycle
One clear route
Idea → draft → review → revision → published, every paper’s station at a glance — with the preprint and the journal version tracked as two outcomes of one work.
Deadlines that find you
Deadlines the app logs off a reviewer decision, and the ones you set — counting down on your dashboard, by email, and in a calendar feed.
The full paper trail
Every submission and revision round — reviewer notes, cover letters, decisions — on one timeline per paper.
Import, not data entry
ORCID and BibTeX in; DOIs filled from Crossref; new work on your record syncs in by itself.
Co-authors on record
Every author recorded per manuscript, plus a ranked shortlist of target journals. Co-author access is on the way.
Your record, your data
EU-hosted, GDPR-friendly, export anytime — and a clean, shareable publication list comes free from the same data.
Why not a spreadsheet?
| Tool | Keeps track of | Goes quiet on |
|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheet / Notion | Whatever you remember to type | Deadlines. It breaks as it grows. |
| Zotero / Mendeley | The papers you read | The papers you’re writing |
| ORCID / Google Scholar | What’s already published | Everything still in the pipeline |
| Papertrek the one place | Work in progress, idea to in print | — |
Pricing
Free while in beta.
Everything Papertrek can do — unlimited manuscripts, imports, the calendar feed, reminders, auto-sync, analytics, your public page — is free while we build it with you.
Paid plans arrive in 2027 at the earliest, with generous notice for beta users — and a free tier for the basics is planned. Nothing you’ve entered is ever lost to a plan change.
Join the beta — freeNo catch
Questions
Is my data private?
Yes — hosted in the EU, GDPR-friendly, and you can export or delete everything at any time.
Do I have to enter everything by hand?
No. Import your record from ORCID or a BibTeX file, fill metadata from a DOI via Crossref with one click — and new papers on your ORCID record sync in automatically.
Which fields does it cover?
Any — journal articles, conference papers, preprints, book chapters. Journal-based and conference-based workflows both fit.
Can co-authors see a paper?
You can record co-authors on every manuscript today, and share a read-only page for any work. Giving co-authors their own access is coming soon.
What does it cost?
Nothing — Papertrek is in open beta and every feature is free. Paid plans arrive in 2027 at the earliest, with generous notice for beta users and academic-friendly pricing — and a free tier for the basics is planned.