Papyrus 2.0 improves reading, note editing, and library organization. - Adaptive iPhone Duo layouts, reader tools, and fold and occlusion avoidance on supported systems. - Keep note drafts, title focus, selection, and undo state through keyboard and window changes. - Improved Apple Pencil controls, drawing saves, and handwritten annotation alignment in PDF exports. - Create standalone notes in notebooks and switch between compact List and Grid views on iPhone. - Include note images in backups and restore referenced images alongside notes. - Improved PDF opening, imports, canceled exports, and iCloud account-change and download recovery. - More careful sync handling for restored items, folder memberships, and note-image transfers. - Sign in with Apple or Google, with clearer progress, cancellation, errors, and account deletion in Settings.

Papyrus 1.7.2 improves iCloud sync and makes it easier to see where your papers are stored. • View a searchable list of papers and PDF upload status in iCloud, with automatic updates. • Improved recovery from stalled PDF downloads and interrupted sync. • Clearer status for pending uploads, missing PDFs, and files linked on another device. • Fixed crashes during iCloud PDF uploads and when closing paper details. • Better handling of distinct PDFs and author edits, plus updated translations and accessibility improvements.

Papyrus 1.7.1 makes reading, annotating, and organizing research more reliable on iPhone and iPad. • More reliable Apple Pencil saves across multiple reader windows. • Deleted PDF annotations stay deleted when reopening, exporting, and syncing. • Improved PDF imports and attachments from Files, including files with identical names. • Clearer metadata conflict review, better datasheet recognition, and a new Unsorted view. • Improved PDF search and more consistent zoom and reading positions as layouts change. • Larger iPhone touch targets, better iPad toolbar spacing, and improved layouts for larger text. • More reliable iCloud PDF delivery, better protection for note images during recovery, and updated translations.

Papyrus 1.7.0 makes reading, annotating, and organizing research easier on iPhone and iPad. • French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese language support. • New iPad reading layouts: single-page and two-page views, plus horizontal or vertical split views for comparing different parts of the same PDF. • Improved Apple Pencil drawing controls, undo and redo, ink saving, and annotated PDF sharing. • Find open-access PDFs and browse publisher websites inside Papyrus. Preview and attach or replace PDFs without creating another reference. • Improved Markdown notes with images, richer previews, reliable autosave and undo, and Markdown import/export with images. • Easier nested-folder creation and metadata correction on iPhone, plus batch PDF downloads and BibTeX/RIS exports. • Improved notebook organization and project writing tools on iPad, including new templates, draft recovery, and export checks. • Expanded Siri and Shortcuts actions for finding papers, continuing reading, adding notes, and saving papers for later. • More reliable Safari imports, PDF annotations, metadata extraction, sync, backups, and restoration, alongside accessibility improvements.

Better reading on iPad • Search and Share are now one tap away in the PDF reader, with a new Go to Page command and thumbnails that follow your current page. • Reader Tools adapt to narrow Stage Manager windows without squeezing the document. • Reading progress is saved more reliably while you read and when the app moves to the background. • Apple Pencil drawing is more dependable, and exports include the latest saved ink. A more complete iPhone companion • Fresh installs now receive the Welcome Guide, while returning users see What’s New after an update. • Creating folders, tags, projects, Smart Collections, and notebooks now works reliably from every tab and takes you directly to the new item. • Home avoids repeating the same paper, surfaces frequent reading and triage actions sooner, and keeps empty active projects visible. • Filters, dashboards, note rows, and onboarding adapt better to Dynamic Type and narrow screens. Safer notes and notebooks • Markdown formatting now recognizes bold and italic text anywhere inside a multi-word phrase. • Code and display-math commands wrap selected text, while tables and dividers no longer replace a selection. • Remote note images remain private until you choose to load them, with safer download and preview handling. • Notebook filing, links, sync, backup, and restore are more reliable, including notes filed on multiple notebooks. • Duplicate notebook names and notebooks in Trash are handled more clearly. More reliable libraries and projects • iCloud sync is more resilient to interrupted transfers, duplicate records, and changes arriving from several devices. • Folder badges, Smart Collections, Trash filtering, and note searches now exclude stale or deleted content correctly. • Switching papers no longer loses a recent author edit or leaves the new detail pane scrolled halfway down. • Project search refreshes when its papers or notes change, and exports always use a fresh folder so older files cannot leak into the new bundle. Plus many smaller accessibility, layout, export, and stability improvements.

Notebooks Gather notes from across your library onto themed shelves — a topic, a chapter you're drafting, a reading group. Filing a note copies nothing and moves nothing: it still belongs to its paper, still says which paper that is, and one tap takes you there and back again. A note can sit on several shelves at once, so "Optics" and "Chapter 3" never have to fight over it. Working a shelf • Add Notes… fills a new notebook from what you've already written, with search and an Unfiled-only filter — a few moments instead of a note-by-note pass. • Search a shelf by a note's text or by the paper it was written on. • Order it four ways: recently edited, grouped by paper, by title, or oldest paper first — which reads your own notes forward through the literature, the way a related-work section wants to be written. • Select several notes to move, unfile, or trash them together. Grouped by paper, each paper's heading handles its notes as a unit. • Every note wears its source paper as a chip with the author and year, so a shelf drawing on a dozen papers stays legible at a glance. A rebuilt note editor • A format bar that follows the cursor: bold, italic, headings, lists, quotes, code, and links each show whether they are already on. • Lists and quotes carry on to the next line as you type, and stop when you leave a line empty — on iPad and iPhone as well as the Mac. • Type [[ to link another note, with completion as you type. • Find and replace inside a note. • Set the text size notes are written and previewed at. Pick up where you left off A paper's detail pane on iPad now has a Reading card: the page you stopped on, how far into the PDF you are, and every page you bookmarked while reading. A big round of iPhone catch-up • Flags now work on the phone: set one from the quick-state strip, filter by Flagged, and read each flag by its shape as well as its color. • Notebooks can be created, renamed, and deleted on iPhone. • Papers can be moved to Trash, refreshed, and edited there. • Folders and projects can be created without reaching for an iPad or Mac. • The note editor fits the screen: sheets, Settings rows, and the reader's title bar are sized for a phone rather than shrunk down from a desktop. Smoother Apple Pencil ink on iPad Scrolling an inked PDF does far less work per page — Papyrus no longer re-reads and re-saves ink for pages you only scrolled past. Room to breathe on iPad • The notebook header no longer crams four spelled-out controls into a split-view column; labels give way to glyphs only where they genuinely don't fit. • The PDF row offers the one action the paper's state actually calls for, instead of wrapping "Replace PDF" onto two lines. • Papers and notebooks each have their own Link control, so a Hookmark link is visible rather than hidden behind a long press. • The Library title no longer drags down when you overscroll the paper list. Fixed in 1.6.1 • Opening Trash no longer pulls the library's contents up underneath the toolbar. A Trash holding more deleted notes than fit the column now scrolls instead of spilling out of it. • Empty Trash now appears when Trash holds only deleted notes or notebooks, rather than only when it holds papers. • Empty Trash now clears deleted notebooks too. Notes filed on a deleted notebook are still never deleted with it. • The Trash badge no longer keeps counting notes that have already been deleted. A count left behind by an earlier version is corrected the next time Papyrus opens. Also fixed • Notes and highlights no longer come adrift from their paper during sync. • Moving a note to Trash now updates the Trash count. • Panels like Add Notes are no longer clipped in a narrow window. • A notebook's badge now shows that it counts notes, not papers.

• Link to any paper from anywhere — Every paper now has a permanent link. Copy Link sits with the citation actions — in a paper's menu in the library, on the paper's own screen, and in the reader while you're reading. Paste it into Obsidian, Apple Notes, Drafts, a task in Things or OmniFocus, or a Shortcut. Opening it brings up that paper in Papyrus — even if it's filed somewhere your current view doesn't show. Links point at the paper itself, so renaming it, editing its metadata, moving it between folders, or replacing its PDF won't break them, and the same link opens on your Mac when iCloud Sync is on. • Point at the passage, not just the paper — While reading, Copy Link to This Page copies a link that reopens the paper at the page you're on, so a citation in your notes lands where the argument actually is. • Works with your automations — Papyrus answers x-callback-url requests, so Shortcuts and link managers can capture whatever you're reading — title, link, and the PDF's location — without going through the clipboard. • See where a paper lives — The paper inspector now shows the folders and projects a paper belongs to, right beside its tags, and lets you take it out of a project without leaving the pane. Before this, "Add to…" was the only control there, and it never told you where the paper already was. • Notes say what they're about — A note now names the paper it belongs to and takes you straight back to it. • Easier-to-scan library rows — Consecutive papers are easier to tell apart, with your choice of alternating row shading or separator lines in Settings → General. • Plus the usual round of refinements and fixes.

• Smart Collections that match more — Text Match, Tag Filter, and Document Type each take several values now instead of just one. For Text Match and Tag Filter you also choose whether a paper must match Any of your values or All of them, so "Alice Smith or A. Smith" and "tagged both methods and optics" are each a single rule. • Save what you're signed in to read — The Safari extension captures the PDF from inside your browser session, so a paper behind a publisher sign-in you have access to saves with the Papyrus button, not just open-access files. • See exactly what a refresh changed — After refreshing metadata across your library, the summary now lists which papers were updated and which fields (title, authors, year, or abstract) changed, instead of just a count. • Flags you can read without color — Each of the seven flag colors now carries its own shape as well as its hue, so flags stay tellable apart without relying on color alone. • Plus the usual round of refinements and fixes.

Flags are now a real way to organize. • Filter by flag from the library filter menu, and build Smart Collections that match any set of colors. • Sort by flag to group the library by color, with unflagged papers last. • Name your flags — "To Read", "Needs Reply", whatever fits. The name follows the color through menus, filter tokens, and collection summaries. Sharper metadata when you import. Papyrus reads author lists, years, and titles more accurately — especially on Springer, IEEE, and magazine-style PDFs. Bylines that wrap across several lines now come in complete instead of stopping halfway, journal boilerplate no longer lands in the author field, and a year mentioned in passing ("published in December 1919") is no longer mistaken for the publication year. A calmer Projects workspace on iPad. Papers, Evidence, and Draft each carry their own accent, so it is always clear where you are. Captured evidence now reads like a note — claim, quote, and interpretation laid out for reading — with the editing controls one tap away instead of permanently on screen. Explanatory text steps aside once a section has real content, the add-evidence form stays folded until you want it, and note previews show your writing instead of raw Markdown. Fixes • iPad: sidebar section arrows line up with the badge column.. • The checkmark on the lighter flag swatches is legible in both light and dark mode. • VoiceOver reads your custom flag names, and the shortcut-validation dismiss button is now labeled.

NEW • Now on iPhone: read, browse, capture, and file your papers with a companion designed for one hand. • References & Related — open a paper's reference list and related work right in the reader, and add any of them to your library with one tap. • Colored flags — triage papers with seven colored flags alongside star ratings. • Highlights notebook — every highlight across a project, gathered in one place. Tap one to jump straight to that spot in the PDF. • Review duplicates — find papers that look identical (same PDF, DOI, or title) and merge them; tags, notes, and highlights are combined. IMPROVED • Smarter importing: PDFs now land in the folder or project you're viewing, and you can drop several files onto a folder at once. • Sidebar: Tags, Folders, Projects, and Smart Collections now collapse — with counts for what's tucked away. • Fixed: BibTeX and RIS files import cleanly (including Mendeley exports) and export as proper .bib/.ris files.

• Papers can now live in multiple folders — add or remove per folder, synced across devices. • Projects now collect all their papers' notes — browse them as a list or read them as one combined document (library notes included). • iPhone: paper view shows the journal/venue; Browse shows Smart Collection counts. • Fixes: library notes now appear in their project; folder sync reliability.

Papyrus now works on iPhone Papyrus comes to iPhone as a full companion to iPad and Mac — read PDFs, browse your library, write Markdown notes, organize projects, and save papers from Safari, now in a one-handed layout that stays in sync across your devices with iCloud. This update also brings a more reliable saving from the Safari extension, steadier iCloud sync (including for deleted items), and performance improvements with a range of bug fixes.

• Added Safari paper import: capture papers and available PDFs from Safari and send them directly to Papyrus. • Improved optional iCloud sync and WebDAV restore reliability, including safer recovery flows, stronger backup integrity checks, and better handling of duplicated or restored records. • Improved Markdown note rendering, note-image handling, and project export behavior. • Improved Project workflows, export behavior, and writing-state consistency. • Improved accessibility across library, reader, project, and settings views. • Added additional safeguards around synced PDF assets, ink annotations, Markdown note images, and restore snapshots. • Fixed smaller UI and stability issues found during release testing.

This update includes interface refinements and polish for a cleaner, more consistent experience.

This update includes refinements to syncing, Apple Pencil writing experience, and reference metadata, plus reliability improvements and bug fixes.

iCloud Sync & Apple Pencil refinements • Fixed an issue where folders, tags, projects, and smart collections could appear duplicated after signing in to iCloud Sync on a second device. Existing duplicates are now merged back together automatically. • Apple Pencil: handwriting no longer shifts the moment you close the drawing tool on iPad, and your ink renders with smooth, natural pen strokes — and stays crisp in Dark Mode.

iCloud Sync is here. Turn it on and your whole library stays in sync across your iPad and Mac — papers, notes, tags, folders, projects, highlights, your PDF files, and your Apple Pencil drawings. It's completely private: everything syncs through your own iCloud account, so your library stays yours. Sync is optional — turn it on anytime in Settings.