Happy to say initial (very limited) user testing has begun – we will keep it limited in light of the holiday break but will gradually invite more users and then do a bigger release. So next month is looking likely, although it might be safer to say February 
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Thanks for the update vicente, happy holidays.
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Vicente, I would love to be added to the alpha/beta/whatever … have been waiting for this for a looong time 
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I’d love to be on this beta when it releases. I’ve been waiting for safari extension since the very first day I fell in love with Paperpile! Wrote my entire PhD with it in Chrome and I would love to continue using it.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. I can’t believe we first requested this feature 6 years ago!
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Hello Vicente,
I feel like this is my annual check in with the paperpile dev team regarding this feature. We are through January and now a week into February 2023. I have not received any invitation for Safari beta testing or seen any adjustment to the roadmap regarding this feature. My residency ends in 5 months and I will need to decide on a program to use not just for boards prep but ideally for the rest of my career. If this feature isn’t available soon, I will have to change to a different program as I don’t want to lose any notes I make during my study period. Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks for checking back in here, @TigerJAK. We are still in pre-beta (technology preview) testing stage, which means the look is not final and there are bugs still being sorted out. In this preview, the library and all its features can be accessed from Safari – only missing a dedicated extension for web import, which is coming in the wider releases.
Anybody who’d like to test (and is willing to provide feedback for) this “draft” version of our new web app, please drop me a line via chat or email (support@paperpile.com). Otherwise, I’ll report back here when there’s news 
Count me in for any testing. I’ve been back and forth from Chrome to Safari to Brave and back to Safari. Safari suits all my other workflows best but I now have a keyboard shortcut to open Brave whenever I want to use Paperpile (which is multiple times a day) and it’s been irritating to say the least. I even re-downloaded Zotero and then remembered all the things about Zotero that I disliked and which Paperpile solved when I switched years ago. So I’m still rusted onto Paperpile but would love to help facilitate integration with Safari.
Please count me in as well for testing the tech preview.
I am also willing to test the Safari extension!
I’m also interested in testing the preview version.
Thanks @Samuel_Whittle, @jtremblay, @ravibot and @Xiangmeng_Cai for your willingness to test. Please head over to this post to sign up for the private beta of our new web app and extension.
Like I mentioned above, this beta does not include the Safari extension yet. You only can use the web app on Safari without the extension and thus limited features set.
Forgive my ignorance but how is the web app reliant on the extension? The extension is only relevant when adding papers, as far as I can tell. The web app just provides a frontend for the papers and their metadata.
Thank you so much. Done!
The extension is also required for things like:
- automatic pub metadata improvement
- auto-download of publications
- integration with Scholar and else
- Google Docs citing tool
Although with the new design we strived to rely as little as possible in the extension, these operations will still require it. In any case, as I mentioned above, it will soon be ported to Safari and in the meantime everything else already works there (and papers can be imported via upload).
I’m also interested in testing the preview version.
A first version of the extension has begun internal testing, but is still not fit for beta stage. I don’t have a precise timeline to share at the moment, but there should be some progress to report in a month or so.
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Any update?