Mendeley vs. Zotero

Mendeley

21 Reviews and Ratings

Zotero

20 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Mendeley	Score2.7 out of 10	N/A	Mendeley, an Elsevier company headquartered in London, offers their eponymous reference management software suite, including Mendeley Reference Manager, Web Importer, the Citation Plugin add-on, available in Premium package.	N/A
Zotero	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	Zotero is a free reference management tool developed as a project developed at Carnegie Mellon and supported by a small team at George Mason University.	N/A

Pricing

Mendeley

Zotero

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Pricing Offerings
Mendeley	Zotero
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Mendeley	Zotero
Considered Both Products	Mendeley Erwan Pannier Post-Graduate Researcher in Research & Development at CentraleSupelec (Research, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Mendeley In ~2014 I and our Lab chose Mendeley over Zotero because it had more functionalities (annotate directly in pdf) and being a commercial product it might have had more support. Ten years have passed and it turns out that there was never support (latest versions of Mendeley … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mendeley I now use Zotero, and prefer Zotero. Mendeley's occasional glitches caused too much stress for this busy grad student. The research team I joined already used Zotero, so making the shift to the new software was based on group needs. Incentivized Helpful?	Open Source Albert Chen Web Developer in Engineering at Baynami (Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees) Chose Zotero Mendeley isn't open source like Zotero and doesn't have well-built browser plug-ins, although it has a better, more modern interface. Zotero has limitations with PDFs, but Mendeley doesn't support them at all. For Qiqqa, it is a better alternative and is open source as well. … Incentivized Helpful? Elizabeth Umberfield Graduate Student Research Assistant at University of Michigan (Research, 10,001+ employees) Chose Zotero Zotero is much less prone to glitches than Mendeley, and has much easier to use web extensions and word processor plugins. I found Zotero easy and intuitive to use. Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Plotkin Technical Project Manager in Information Technology at California State University, Northridge (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Zotero Like Zotero, Mendeley is also available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. It's also available for iOS and Android, whereas Zotero is not. Mendeley is not open source but is free, as well. Zotero's browser integration is superior to Mendeley's, however. Qiqqa is limited to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Zotero the interface of those is quite better, but Zotero's usability is more intuitive and straightforward. The price of the others might seem a bit more affordable, but the functions are restricted to the sucription. Zotero's free use is magnificent, paying for the cloud space seems … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Zotero Zotero is far superior. First of all, it is free! These other programs cost money. Second, because Zotero is open source, there are many more online resources and forums to find help. Third, Zotero is well-known to have a far friendlier interface and ability to read articles, … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Mendeley	Zotero
Likelihood to Recommend	1.1 (6 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)