The Best 55 BibSonomy Alternatives

  • 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

  • Shaarli

    Shaarli is a minimalist link sharing software you can install on your own website.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted Cloudron

  • 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

  • Papers

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

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows iPhone iPad Web

  • SemanticScuttle

    semanticscuttle is a self-hosted and web-based social bookmarking tool experimenting with new features like structured tags and collaborative descriptions of tags. originally a fork of http://alternativein .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted Firefox

  • Citavi

    Reference management and knowledge organization with integrated task planner. Solution for work groups with data sharing in intranet available.

    Freemium Windows

  • lumio

    SPOTLIGHT CONTENT THAT MATTERS Highlight text or data, save images, videos or entire pages from the web. Your highlights are recorded together with all source information.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone iPad Chrome OS Chrome

  • 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

    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

    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

  • 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

  • Academia.edu

    is a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field.

    Free Web

  • 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

    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

  • Cite This For Me

    Automatically create website citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles at the click of a button. Simply browse to the page you wish to cite and click the button to generate a correctly formatted citation.

    Free Chrome OS Web Chrome Chrome Web Store

  • 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