Zotero for Mac
Maintain content in web browser in a personal library.
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Zotero overview
Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.
What’s new in version 7.0.17
Changes in 7.0.17 (June 23, 2025)
- Fixed Google Docs integration in Safari (broken in 7.0.16)
Changes in 7.0.16 (June 21, 2025)
- Improved attachment saving on sites with aggressive anti-bot measures or unusual authentication schemes, for people using certain proxy servers, and for people on networks where the Zotero app has more limited network access than the browser
- Fixed potential sync error after annotating snapshot in Zotero 7.1 beta on another computer
- Fixed citation dialog and tabs menu not working if open tab is in library not visited since app start
- Fixed a situation where locally missing files might not be downloaded
- Preserve existing internal capitalization (e.g., “iPhone”) when converting title to sentence case
- File renaming improvements: Creator counting - Pascal case - Inequality operators
- Fixed transfer of attachment title between items if clicking directly to another item while editing
- Ignore invalid relative path when changing linked attachment base directory
- Restore hiding of “Endnotes” option in Google Docs, which doesn't support endnotes
- Fixed plugins not loading properly when enabled if disabled on app start
- Show clearer message in Run JavaScript window if no result
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Fixed Google Docs integration in Safari (broken in 7.0.16)
Changes in 7.0.16 (June 21, 2025)
- Improved attachment saving on sites with aggressive anti-bot measures or unusual authentication schemes, for people using certain proxy servers, and for people on networks where the Zotero app has more limited network access than the browser
- Fixed potential sync error after annotating snapshot in Zotero 7.1 beta on another computer
- Fixed citation dialog and tabs menu not working if open tab is in library not visited since app start
- Fixed a situation where locally missing files might not be downloaded
- Preserve existing internal capitalization (e.g., “iPhone”) when converting title to sentence case
- File renaming improvements: Creator counting - Pascal case - Inequality operators
- Fixed transfer of attachment title between items if clicking directly to another item while editing
- Ignore invalid relative path when changing linked attachment base directory
- Restore hiding of “Endnotes” option in Google Docs, which doesn't support endnotes
- Fixed plugins not loading properly when enabled if disabled on app start
- Show clearer message in Run JavaScript window if no result
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Improved attachment saving on sites with aggressive anti-bot measures or unusual authentication schemes, for people using certain proxy servers, and for people on networks where the Zotero app has more limited network access than the browser
- Fixed potential sync error after annotating snapshot in Zotero 7.1 beta on another computer
- Fixed citation dialog and tabs menu not working if open tab is in library not visited since app start
- Fixed a situation where locally missing files might not be downloaded
- Preserve existing internal capitalization (e.g., “iPhone”) when converting title to sentence case
- File renaming improvements: Creator counting - Pascal case - Inequality operators
- Fixed transfer of attachment title between items if clicking directly to another item while editing
- Ignore invalid relative path when changing linked attachment base directory
- Restore hiding of “Endnotes” option in Google Docs, which doesn't support endnotes
- Fixed plugins not loading properly when enabled if disabled on app start
- Show clearer message in Run JavaScript window if no result
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Zotero for Mac
Free
In English
Version 7.0.17
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Aug 13 2024
Version: 7.0
Version 7 is a major step for Zotero. Dark Mode, epub support and an overall refreshed UI make for a great software. Can't wait for the mobile clients to follow up with epub support on Android and iOS.
Apr 15 2021
Version: 5.0.96.1
Have made the switch to Zotero (ditched Papers after many years). Reasonable transfer over (~500 papers) but quite some work to get all the categories set up as those were not done automatically. The latest Zotero is quite useable for me- the latest betas have integrated PDF reading so will be very much like classic Papers when that is final. Can host PDF library locally or in-cloud storage, or use the Zotero storage. Slightly different ways needed to work efficiently with it, but fine once the transition was made.
Dec 10 2020
Version: 5.0.93
The Mac version (v5.0.93) can't scan your RTF papers if it finds diacritics or umlauts in the references! … Or in other words, the Mac version is useless. :–(
Sep 16 2019
Version: 5.0.72
Zotero is continously updated and refined. In my book, this makes it the best and most reliable cross platform reference manager out there. In contrast to a reference manager like Endnote, this makes a difference in the long run - this means less unfortunate breaks after system and word processor updates.
One feature, spearheaded by Zotero, is the brilliant integration with web browsers, which makes importing references and PDF’s from websites a breeze.
Others features worth mentioning: Google docs integration, open source, smart folders, the tagging system.
One feature I miss would be folder watching for automatic import of downloaded pdf’s.
The only better alternative on the Mac would be Bookends, which is not cross platform.
