AcademicNotes: Study PDF Notes

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About this app

Read academic PDFs, highlight what matters, and turn every highlight into an organized note — with APA citations generated automatically. AcademicNotes is the note-taking app built specifically for students, researchers, and academics.

STOP LOSING YOUR RESEARCH NOTES
Your literature review shouldn't live in five different apps. AcademicNotes keeps your papers, highlights, notes, and references together — synced between your phone and the web app.

📄 PDF READING & ANNOTATION
• Fast PDF reader designed for academic papers
• Highlight text in multiple colors
• Every highlight becomes a note you can expand, tag, and search
• Quote snippets keep the original text attached to your notes
• Smooth pinch-zoom and full-text search inside your documents

📝 ACADEMIC NOTE-TAKING
• Notes stay linked to the exact page and passage they came from
• Tag notes across papers to build themes for your thesis or article
• Organize sources into projects — one per course, chapter, or study
• Reading status tracking: to read, reading, finished

🎓 CITATIONS & REFERENCES
• APA 7 reference list generated from your library automatically
• Add sources by DOI — metadata is fetched for you via CrossRef
• Import your existing library from BibTeX (.bib) or RIS (.ris) files
• Supports journal articles, books, book chapters, theses and more

🔄 SYNC & ACCESS ANYWHERE
• Use it on your Android phone, tablet, or any browser at web.academicnotes.net
• Your library is always in sync — annotate on mobile, write on desktop
• Interface available in 7 languages: English, Türkçe, Deutsch, Español, Português, Français, Italiano

WHO IS IT FOR?
• University students preparing assignments, exams, and theses
• Graduate researchers managing literature reviews
• Academics collecting and citing sources for publications
• Anyone who reads PDFs and needs their study notes organized

FREE TO START
Start free with up to 20 documents and 10 notes per document. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited documents, notes, and projects.

Your research, one place: read, highlight, take academic notes, and cite — without switching apps.

Questions or feedback? Reach us anytime at [e-mail]

What’s new

First release of AcademicNotes.

• Read academic PDFs with highlighting and annotations
• Take notes linked to the passages they come from
• Organize sources into separate projects
• APA 7 reference formatting, DOI lookup via CrossRef
• Available in 7 languages