Zotero

4.7
290 reviews
1L+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your work.

COLLECT

• Save journal articles, newspaper articles, books, webpages, and more by sharing a URL from your browser or other apps
• Automatically download article PDFs to read (currently limited to PDFs accessible without a login due)
• Automatically retrieve bibliographic details for PDFs saved to the app
• Quickly add physical books to your Zotero library by scanning book barcodes with your device camera

ORGANIZE

• Use collections and tags to organize your research
• View and edit bibliographic information for your research items

ANNOTATE

• Read PDFs and add highlight, note, image, and ink annotations

CITE

• Instantly generate citations and bibliographies in over 10,000 formats and journal styles including APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, Turabian, and Vancouver (available from web library or desktop app — Android support coming soon)

SHARE

• Collaboratively collect sources and mark up PDFs in group libraries with your colleagues
• Synchronize your personal and group research libraries to access them via Zotero’s desktop app and the Zotero website
• Use the Zotero desktop app to insert your annotations into Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs documents and automatically generate bibliographies from the sources you used

Visit zotero.org to learn more about everything you can do with Zotero.

Having trouble? Have an idea? Post bug reports and feature requests to the Zotero Forums at forums.zotero.org to talk directly to Zotero developers.

ZOTERO AND PRIVACY

Since 2006, the Zotero team has been committed to creating the best research software, and we believe that includes putting you in full control of your own work. We’re an independent, nonprofit organization, and we’ll never sell your data.
Updated on
30 Jun 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Files and docs and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.8
225 reviews
AJ
20 August 2025
Finally! The best library app now on Android! It's pretty straightforward. The app syncs your library and downloads them on-device for offline viewing. You can sort and organize however. As an entrepreneur, I read a lot and love this app. You'll get a lot of value out of this if you're an ebook person and love to mark them up.
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Daffodil Salad
17 July 2025
Excellent. Has all the features I want for managing papers, after using the desktop and browser versions. I can quickly browse or search all the content that was already in my collection. I can quickly and easily use the Add-by-identifier feature - Zotero takes the DOI that I've pasted in and gets all the details for me and adds it to the collection. I can easily find or add files attached to an Item. Everything in the interface seems to be where I expect, so it's a very good user experience.
3 people found this review helpful
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Ikhsan Rifai
4 July 2025
It is exciting news from Zotero that they finally develop for mobile phones especially within Android operating systems. In my experience, it helps me to read conveniently while laying on the bed with my phone instead of sitting in front of the computer screen (make my body feel exhaustive obviously) However, there is a problem that might be better to be fixed. It is so long to sync from mobile to the cloud. While I was reading, I came up with an interesting paper and I wanted to sync it quick
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What's new

- Fixed error opening web links from app