zotero.org
Zotero
Who runs Zotero, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest reference management software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Paperpile
Measured from Zotero’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Zotero01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Zotero
Zotero zotero.org
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Wikidata: reference management software
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Zotero tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Zotero’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Zotero
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Zotero, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Paperpile Reference Manager
Paperpile is a clean and simple reference manager that makes it easy to collect, organize, share, and cite your research papers.
Very close - 02 Mendeley mendeley.com
reference management software; product of Elsevier
Very close - 03 EndNote endnote.com
reference manager
Very close - 04 RefWorks refworks.com
web-based commercial reference management software package
Very close - 05
Best academic reference management software with AI | Citavi
Elevate research with Citavi, the academic reference management software featuring AI insights. Simplify citation management and literature management today.
Very close - 06
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close - 07
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close - 08
Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
Very close - 09
Seafile - Open Source File Sync and Share Software
Seafile is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share solution with high performance and reliability. Sync, access, and collaborate on files on your own server or private cloud.
Very close - 10
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Very close - 11
e-learning platform
Very close - 12
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Very close - 13
DBeaver Community | Free Open-Source Database Management Tool
multi-platform database administration software
Very close - 14
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
Very close - 15
Free and private office suite, no forced AI — LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free office suite
Very close - 16
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform
The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe
Very close - 17
GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot | Nomic
Run open-source AI models locally on your device. GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI with no cloud required—your data stays on your machine.
Very close - 18
Typst: The new foundation for documents
Typst is the new foundation for documents. Sign up now and experience limitless power to write, create, and automate anything that you can fit on a page.
Very close - 19
HeidiSQL - MariaDB/MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Interbase/Firebird made easy
HeidiSQL is a free and powerful client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Interbase/Firebird
Very close - 20
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Zotero’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Zotero uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Zotero adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Zotero’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: E1FYvJ8X_i7cp_S-LQkrSfirTYAZ1ueYSj20XBR2VA57E2o6XBLlUQ==
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms97307893
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx include:amazonses.com -all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1395.awsdns-46.org
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on zotero.org 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on zotero.org 6/20
- Amazon SES 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on zotero.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on zotero.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on zotero.org 5/20
- jQuery · not on zotero.org 5/20
- PHP · not on zotero.org 5/20
- nginx · not on zotero.org 5/20
- WordPress · not on zotero.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on zotero.org 3/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on zotero.org 3/20
- SendGrid · not on zotero.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on zotero.org 3/20