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.

We’ll send a link to confirm. Your address is only used for these alerts.

Visit Zotero

01 · 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

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Zotero match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · 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 and search numbers · 5 technologies