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, Web-based, Windows, 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. 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

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. DeepDyve icon
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    DeepDyve is the company behind LitHub, an AI-powered literature-management platform offering researchers affordable, publisher-licensed access to scientific, technical, and medical research. Users can read 35M+ paywalled and 25M+ open-access papers and search a discovery index...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Internet Explorer
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  3. Weava icon
     15 likes

    Weava is a collaborative workplace for research offering an easy way to highlight, organize and collaborate on your research articles.

    58 Weava alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  4. TextCite icon
     9 likes

    Program for organizing and commenting textual citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use in producing scientific or academic publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. RefWorks icon
     11 likes

    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.

    44 RefWorks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  6. 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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. BibKit icon
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    A better way to manage BibTeX.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPad
     
  8. PubChase icon
     6 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  9. Bookends icon
     13 likes

    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. PDF Search icon
     4 likes

    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.

    34 PDF Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. UbikReader icon
     5 likes

    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  12. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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