Alternatives to bibus for all platforms with any license

Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox/Chrome extension or standalone program to help you collect, organize, manage, search and cite your research sources directly in...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome Safari ... Microsoft Office Word LibreOffice Firefox
Browser integration Export to CSV Firefox extension Importing from webpages ... Libre Office Integration Compatible with Microsoft Office Microsoft Office integration Multiple languages Save web page for offline use Sync between devices Support for WebDAV Add a feature

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Mendeley

Mendeley helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone iPad
Browser integration Libre Office Integration Microsoft Office integration PDF annotation ... Real time collaboration Add a feature

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Qiqqa

Qiqqa is free award-winning knowledge-, research- and reference management software. If you're serious about getting the most from managing your publications, PDFs...

Freemium Windows Web Android Android Tablet
PDF annotation Automatic Tagging Bib Tex Sniffer Citation detection ... Content analysis Document annotations File Searching Metadata Search Portable Qualitative Data Analysis Real time collaboration Optimized for Touch screen Add a feature

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Docear

Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management, which helps you organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. The 3 most distinct features...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
PDF annotation Mind Map view Portable Add a feature

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- Discontinued Development and support of Docear have been stopped in August 2017. Last version, 1.2, released in December 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website. http://www.docear.org/2017/02/05/docears-online-services-are-down-recommendation-user-registration-backup/
JabRef

JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Automatic file renaming Export citation File-sync Add a feature

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Papers

Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about.

Commercial Mac Windows Web iPhone iPad
No features added Add a feature

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Paperpile

Organize your research papers in a Gmail-like web app, sync your PDFs to Google Drive and cite your references in Google Docs.

Commercial Web Chrome Google Drive Google Drive - Docs Google Scholar
No features added Add a feature

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colwiz

colwiz is free software for researchers, academics and students. The iPad, iPhone and iPod touch version sync your research articles, attachments and annotations with...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad
No features added Add a feature

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Weava

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

Freemium Web Chrome
Text Highlighting Add a feature

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EasyBib

Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA. Easybib truly makes the life of...

Freemium Web Android iPhone Chrome OS Google Drive - Docs
No features added Add a feature

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Bookends

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...

Commercial Mac iPhone iPad
No features added Add a feature

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PDF Stacks

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...

Commercial Mac Windows
Built-in viewer PDF annotation Real time collaboration Add a feature

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TextCite

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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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Benubird PDF

Benubird PDF makes personal document management simple: capture, organize and retrieve your PDF documents effortlessly. Managing files is easy with virtual folders and...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

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- Discontinued Software is discontinued, but still available for download from http://www.debenu.com/products/desktop/debenu-pdf-benubird/
UbikReader

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...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad
Dropbox integration Integrated Search PDF annotation Add a feature

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