Mendeley Alternatives

Mendeley is described as 'Helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and generating bibliographies with 1GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize your library' and is a very popular research manager in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Mendeley for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Windows, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Mendeley alternative is Zotero, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mendeley are Qiqqa, JabRef, BibSonomy and EndNote.

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  1. Anara icon
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    Advanced AI workspace tailored for students, scientists, and teams, enabling academic paper search, passage extraction, citation finding, organizing projects, creating quizzes, flashcards, and ensuring reliable answers from major databases and uploaded materials.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
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    The Open Data Repository's Data Publisher allows researchers, graduate students, and the general public to quickly create database structures and publish data on the web. Using the drag-and-drop form designer, you can easily create your database schema and then populate it...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Zetaref icon
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    Zetaref is a comprehensive research and reference management platform built to simplify the way researchers collect, organize, and analyze academic materials. From journal articles and conference papers to books and reports, Zetaref provides a centralized space to keep all your...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Crescis icon
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    Crescis an AI-powered research assistant that creates citation ready literature reviews from either your uploaded PDFs or AI-powered searches across millions of scholarly articles.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Sciscoper icon
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    Sciscoper is an AI-powered SaaS for STEM researchers that turns research papers into structured, searchable knowledge. It accelerates literature reviews, extracts key insights, and generates accurate citations to streamline scientific discovery.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Droideley icon
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    Droideley is an unofficial Mendeley Android client. It is capable of synchronizing with your Mendeley library and of downloading the stored documents. It also provides a filtering options (folder, author, tag) and it can be used for searching in the global Mendeley database.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  7. Afforai icon
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    Afforai is the AI-powered reference manager for modern researchers, helping researchers manage, annotate, cite papers and conduct literature reviews with AI reliably. Afforai was built to assist every kind of researcher, whether you are a student, professor, or researcher of 50-years.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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