Alternatives to Papers for Mac with any license

Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome Safari ... Microsoft Office Word Google Drive - Docs LibreOffice Firefox
Browser integration Export to CSV Firefox Extensions 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 Word integration 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...
- 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/
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
PDF annotation Mind Map view Portable Add a feature

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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
Autocompletion Automatic file renaming Export citation File-sync ... Grouping entries Add a feature

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ReadCube

ReadCube’s desktop and mobile iOS applications are available free for both Mac & PC and offers researchers the ability to discover and access literature faster...

Freemium Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... iPad
Built-in File Manager File Searching File-sync PDF annotation Add a feature

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wizdom.ai

wizdom.ai (formerly colwiz) is a free and comprehensive research management software for researchers, academics and students. With the wizdom.ai android app, you can...

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

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SCIENTILLA

Scientilla is a new approach to give the scientific community an open, free, accurate, tidy and up-to-date production reporting solution. Scientilla is peer-to-peer...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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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BibDesk

BibDesk is a bibliographic reference manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. BibDesk...

Free Open Source Mac
Tex Add a feature

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FoxTrot Professional Search

Search a comprehensive, centralized cache of all text found in your documents and other text-based files, including database and package files.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Category filters Full text search In-document search Metadata Search 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.
- Discontinued As the developer stated in February 2017, the software is no longer developed: https://sourceforge.net/p/textcite/discussion/616111/thread/91d6f4bc/#e988 Last version, 1.4, released in September 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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...
- Discontinued Company/website unreachable
Commercial Mac Windows
Built-in viewer PDF annotation Real time collaboration Add a feature

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PDF Search

PDF Search is an elegant reader app using artificial intelligence algorithms to find the most relevant pages inside thousands of PDF documents quickly. It searches like...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad
Full text search Add a feature

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bibus

Bibus is a bibliographic database. It uses a MySQL or SQLite database to store references. It can directly insert references in OpenOffice.org and MS Word and generate...

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

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RefWorks

RefWorks - an online research management, writing and collaboration tool - is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux Web
No features added Add a feature

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