Zotero

Zotero

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.

Ratings and reviews

Very useful for helping me organize & annotate papers & reports for research. However, it often glitches when I try to add webpages, loading forever but often never adding them. It's worse if I need to add a PDF directly. I usually have to download a copy or add it to my Google Drive & then manually add it. The cost of extra storage is also insanely high (e.g. $20 for 2 GB & $60 for 6 GB). For comparison, 2 Terabytes from Google is $99 per year. Really hoping to see better storage prices soon!

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.

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.

What’s new

- Fixed error opening web links from app