BibDesk Alternatives

BibDesk is described as 'Bibliographic reference manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to BibDesk for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Web-based, iPhone and iPad apps. The best BibDesk alternative is Zotero, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BibDesk are Mendeley, Qiqqa, JabRef and EndNote.

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  1. DeepDyve icon
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    DeepDyve provides simple and affordable access to millions of articles across thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Content from the world's leading publishers including Reed Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Internet Explorer
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  2. Weava icon
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    Weava is a collaborative workplace for research offering an easy way to highlight, organize and collaborate on your research articles.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  3. Benubird PDF icon
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    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. Guaranteed to save you time and revolutionize the way you work with your documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. RefWorks icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  5. PDF Stacks icon
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    With PDF Stacks, you can organize, find and browse, search, annonate and share your collection and library of PDF files, papers, research and journal articles with a single click. It saves you time: no more wondering around your computer to find a PDF file.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. PDF Search icon
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    PDF Search is an app to search multiple documents insanely fast. It enables you to find any information in seconds within lots of documents. It uses its AI-powered algorithm to detect the best related pages. Just search your documents, reference books or notes using PDF Search.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. PubChase icon
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    Read More, Search Less. Stay up to date with biomedical research relevant to you!

    Get personalized recommendations

    Build your cloud library and PubChase will recommend recently published articles based on the authors and journals that YOU read.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  8. Paperguide.ai icon
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    Paperguide is an advanced platform designed to simplify the research and writing process. With the AI Research Assistant, you can easily explore, understand, and summarize complex academic content.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Paperguide.ai is the most popular SaaS alternative to BibDesk.

    • Paperguide.ai is Freemium and ProprietaryBibDesk is Free and Open Source
    • Paperguide.ai is Privacy focusedBibDesk is not according to our users
  9. Bookends icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. UbikReader icon
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    UbikReader is the new way to organize your documents. Multitask while you read, annotate, write notes and share your documents with ease. No more worrying about how to manage your large, cluttered library of documents.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    ResearcherPRO has been designed to help researchers and anyone who is interested in reading papers, in facilitating many operations such as discover them, organize them, sync them and note taking on them.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  12. I, Librarian icon
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    I, Librarian is an online service that will organize your collection of PDF and office files. The service focuses on central management of PDF documents suitable for real-time collaboration in research teams and companies.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • I, Librarian is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to BibDesk.

    • I, Librarian is Paid and Open SourceBibDesk is Free and Open Source
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