Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your work. COLLECT • Save journal articles, newspaper articles, books, webpages, and more via the Share button in Safari and other apps • Automatically download article PDFs to read • Quickly add physical books and articles to your Zotero library by scanning book barcodes or article DOIs with your iPhone or iPad camera ORGANIZE • Use collections and tags to organize your research • View and edit bibliographic information for your research items ANNOTATE • Read PDFs and add highlights and notes, or use an Apple Pencil to make freehand annotations CITE • Instantly generate citations and bibliographies in over 10,000 formats and journal styles including APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, Turabian, and Vancouver. SHARE • Collaboratively collect sources and mark up PDFs in group libraries with your colleagues • Synchronize your personal and group research libraries to access them via Zotero’s desktop app and the Zotero website • Use the Zotero desktop app to insert your annotations into Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs documents and automatically generate bibliographies from the sources you used Visit zotero.org to learn more about everything you can do with Zotero. Having trouble? Have an idea? Post bug reports and feature requests to the Zotero Forums at forums.zotero.org to talk directly to Zotero developers. ZOTERO AND PRIVACY Since 2006, the Zotero team has been committed to creating the best research software, and we believe that includes putting you in full control of your own work. We’re an independent, nonprofit organization, and we’ll never sell your data.
A great start, but not yet standalone
If you hoped this would let you research remotely, free from a traditional desktop computer, you will be disappointed. Zotero Mobile does not yet support essential features like snapshotting webpages, colored tags (the only suggested way to maintain to-read/have-read/in-progress statuses), and many others. This suffices only to reference already-saved research and to read a small subset of it (PDFs only, currently) on the go. Expect to use the desktop app for any real work.
United StatesGreat cross-platform app for managing research papers
…and it’s open source, funded by a non-profit company (so we don't have another Mandeley), and updated frequently. What’s not to love?
United StatesError: Unable to unzip snapshot.
I'm attempting to download the PDF files on my iPad, which were previously synced on my laptop. However, I've been encountering an error message stating: "Error: Unable to unzip snapshot." Even after restarting the iPad and reinstalling Zotero, the problem remains unresolved. Strangely, following the reinstallation, none of the previously stored files in Zotero on my iPad are accessible anymore. The same error message now appears for every file. Urgently seeking assistance to resolve this issue.
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I would really love a widget for the iPad home screen that allows you to easily access recently read pdfs.
United StatesSyncing problem
The iPad app stops syncing completely after a certain amount of time, even if I manual refresh the list. The syncing worked in the beginning when I just logged into the account. The only way to temporarily solve this is logging out then logging back in, but this issue never ceases to appear later. It works well on iPhone, Mac, Windows. iPad is the only exception.
United StatesCan’t search specific keywords within texts
I decided to give Zotero a try because I need a place where I can store all the academic articles I read, and Apple Finder has not been working properly lately. I like how you can order your files and add metadata on Zotero, but I still need a system through which I can search specific words within the documents, e.g., when I type “content-based instruction”, the apps shows me all the articles where that word combination appears. I can’t see that Zotero can do this at the moment, whereas Apple Finder can to some extent, and iCloud subscription is cheaper and way more versatile than Zotero’s. This is a very promising project though.
United StatesShare to Zotero not appearing in iOS or iPadOS
I've been a long time Zotero user, love it, and have been looking forward to using it on my iPhone and iPad. This app works well for accessing my Zotero library, but "Share to Zotero" is not appearing in my Safari share options. Entering the data by identifier is very clunky.
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- Fixed local saving of files when over online storage quota - Fixed additional case of incorrect “Unable to unzip snapshot” error when a file isn‘t available on WebDAV server - Fixed PDFs incorrectly being shown in light mode while using dark mode on iOS 15
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