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Last updated on: 2026-06-02
Android Apps > Productivity > Zotero
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Zotero

1.0.0-240
Zotero
4.63
630 reviews
500,000+
Downloads
Free

Your personal research assistant

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Zotero for Android brings desktop-grade research management to your mobile device, enabling you to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share sources on the go. Free and nonprofit, it emphasizes privacy and collaboration with group libraries, auto-PDF retrieval, and thousands of citation styles, syncing with desktop and web. As of now, it has 500,000+ total downloads, with 46K in the last 30 days.

Pros & Cons

  • Free, nonprofit research tool with a privacy-first design
  • Automatic PDF retrieval and bibliographic data enrichment
  • Cites in 10,000+ formats and journal styles
  • Group libraries and cross-device syncing with desktop integration
  • Lacks in-app document viewing/editing tools
  • No built-in file conversion or quick document editing features
  • Fewer mobile-centric features compared to some competitors' broader suites

About Zotero

Zotero is a productivity app developed by Zotero.

Download Statistics

Zotero has been downloaded 540 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 46 thousand times.

User Ratings

Zotero is rated 4.63 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 630 ratings.

App Information

Zotero is FREE to download. The APK download size is 71.78 MB. The latest version available is 1.0.0-240. The last update was on April 23, 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 June 2025.

Description
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your work.
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More data about Zotero

Price Free to download
Total downloads 540 thousand
Recent downloads 46 thousand
Rating 4.63 based on 630 ratings
Ranking Not ranked
Version 1.0.0-240
APK size 71.8 MB
Number of libraries 42
Designed for Android 6.0+
Suitable for Everyone
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Common keywords of similar apps

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Keywords missing from this app

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Downloads over time

Zotero has been downloaded 540 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 1.5 thousand downloads per day.

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Developer information for Zotero

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Comments on Zotero for Android

★★★★★ Arto _ · May 3, 2026
Amazing! Now waiting on the option to add my attachments on Android, and open pdfs using the Otero links
★★★★★ Geo · Jul 31, 2025
I am using Otero for my library. I am not a researcher, but this App is awesome. On PC, I use this app for reading PDF and EPUB files. I am waiting for EPUB reader in Mobile version. I like syncing. Syncing 300 mb for free is amazing.
★★★★☆ 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)
★☆☆☆☆ C C · Jul 20, 2025
Normally books have ISBN-10 and ISBN-13. I tried to search 10 well known books with ISBN and they "failed"...
★★☆☆☆ 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.
★★☆☆☆ 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
★★☆☆☆ Tang Steven · Oct 2, 2025
Good app. But editing PDF in external editor (eg: Samsung Note) using a stylus is still not implemented. Support for replacing the underlying PDF will not hurt your DB based annotation. Please add this feature.

Google Play Rankings for Zotero

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Technologies used by Zotero

Zotero is requesting 4 permissions and is using 43 libraries.
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Trust & Safety: Permissions are limited to standard networking (ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, INTERNET) and UI-related controls (VIBRATE), plus a dynamic receiver flag. No location or sensitive data permissions are requested. Zotero is a nonprofit organization emphasizing privacy and states it will not sell user data.
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