The Best 25 BibDesk Alternatives

  • Zotero icon

    Zotero

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox/Chrome extension or standalone program to help you collect, organize, manage, search and cite your research sources directly in your favourite word processor, with 300 MB free online storage.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Office Word LibreOffice

    Firefox extension Compatible with Microsoft Office Microsoft Office integration Sync between devices Multiple languages Support for WebDAV Browser integration Export to CSV Save web page for offline use Libre Office Integration Importing from webpages
  • JabRef icon

    JabRef

    JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Docear icon

    Docear

    Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management, which helps you organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. The 3 most distinct features are: 1.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

    Portable PDF annotation
  • Papers icon

    Papers

    Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows iPhone iPad Web

  • Paperpile icon

    Paperpile

    Organize your research papers in a Gmail-like web app, sync your PDFs to Google Drive and cite your references in Google Docs.

    Commercial Web Chrome Google Drive - Docs Google Drive Google Scholar

  • EndNote icon

    EndNote

    A reference management software, used for searching online publication databases, & managing publications / bibliographies, with the ability to insert the references into a word processor.

    Commercial Windows iPad Web

  • ReadCube icon

    ReadCube

    ReadCube’s desktop and mobile iOS applications are available free for both Mac & PC and offers researchers the ability to discover and access literature faster, organize their literature and enjoy interactive reading of scholarly...

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone iPad Web

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    colwiz

    colwiz is free software for researchers, academics and students. The iPad, iPhone and iPod touch version sync your research articles, attachments and annotations with the Desktop App over the internet.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web

  • Benubird PDF icon

    Benubird PDF

    Benubird PDF makes personal document management simple: capture, organize and retrieve your PDF documents effortlessly. Managing files is easy with virtual folders and powerful metadata filters.

    Free Windows

  • EasyBib icon

    EasyBib

    Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.

    Freemium Android iPhone Chrome OS Web Google Drive - Docs

  • Bookends icon

    Bookends

    Bookends is a commercial reference management software package for Mac OS X that is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Its target market is students, academics and professionals.

    Commercial Mac OS X iPhone iPad

  • TextCite icon

    TextCite

    Program for organizing and commenting textual citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use in producing scientific or academic publications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • RefWorks icon

    RefWorks

    RefWorks - an online research management, writing and collaboration tool - is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • LibreOffice Plugin for Zotero icon

    LibreOffice Plugin for Zotero

    This Zotero plugin allows the user to automatically generate bibliographies (as well as in-text citations and footnotes) for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux LibreOffice Apache OpenOffice

  • Weava icon

    Weava

    Weava is a collaborative workplace for research offering an easy way to highlight, organize and collaborate on your research articles.

    Freemium Web Chrome