Zotero has 760 thousand installs. Users love it: 4.6 stars from 806 ratings. Show more ›
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Pros & Cons
Free and nonprofit with a privacy-first approach (will never sell your data)
Citations in 10,000+ formats and strong bibliography features
Syncs with Zotero desktop and web libraries for seamless collaboration
Barcode scanning to quickly add books to your library
Android-specific integration for inserting citations into Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs is currently upcoming; Android support is coming soon
Some advanced desktop integration features are designed for web/desktop libraries and may not be fully realized in mobile yet
About Zotero
Zotero is a productivity app developed by Zotero.
Install Statistics
Zotero has been installed 760 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 74 thousand times.
User Ratings
Zotero is rated 4.63 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 810 ratings.
App Information
Zotero is freely available from Google Play. The app size is 71.84 MB. The latest version available is 1.0.0-247. The last update was on May 21, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Zotero requires Android 6.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since June 2025.
Description by Zotero(from Google Play)
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your work.
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Awesome app. Loved using it. However, when the text is made bold in PC, in PDF Annotation, when it comes to mobile, the text that is made bold, doesn't sync.
★★★★☆Simen Eide· Jan 10, 2026
Simple and great app for reading and note taking on pdfs. Missing: highlighter/semi transparent brush so you can highlight areas that are not necessarily text (I have a "photo PDF" now that is not possible to highlight properly)
★★★★★Arto _· May 3, 2026
Amazing! Now waiting on the option to add my attachments on Android, and open pdfs using the Otero links
★★★★☆Pedro Cerdano Vicente· Mar 8, 2026
It would be great to have more appearance options in the mobile version. While the "Dark" appearance in the desktop version keeps the colors of the images and annotations, the "Dark" appearance in the mobile version inverts all the colors (similar to the "Black" appearance in the desktop version)
★★☆☆☆Merle M· Jul 8, 2026
It won't let me download and view the documents on my android app. Windows version is great tho
★☆☆☆☆HJ E· Apr 21, 2026
Installation and registering for android leaves something to be desired. Do not use DuckDuckGo browser password manger for your password! It'll mess things up. Password recovery fails.
★★☆☆☆h. a· Feb 27, 2026
I am new users however it takes ages to download PDF files in my android that synced from my Windows . I don't know why, I got the PDF my self and added them manually by add file in my Windows
★★☆☆☆Ethan Williams· May 19, 2026
There's one key feature that is giving me issues: highlighting. The feature that I use the most has issues extracting text on certain PDFs. It will extract text that wasn't in the highlight AND it garbles some of the sentences that it did pick up. This is not an issue on the desktop app, or any other app, or even plain old copy-paste on my phone. I posted this on the forum and got no response. Will update my review when this gets fixed. Currently, it's unusable for me.
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