Bookends 4+
Reference management on the go
Sonny Software, LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Bookends is the reference management app you've been looking for.
The basic version offers:
• Search online sites directly (arXiv, Google Books, Google Scholar, JSTOR, the Library of Congress, PubMed, PubMed Central, and Semantic Scholar) or use the built-in browser (EZProxy-compliant) to download reference metadata and PDFs (access privileges required). Searches can return a maximum of 20 references, and only 50 references can be stored in your personal database.
• Use unique identifiers such as DOI, PMID, ISBN, or arXiv id to autofill references.
• View the text of PDF annotations in a note stream, and create your own with our powerful PDF markup engine.
• Barcode scanning, one per day.
• And many more features designed to help you discover, organize, and use reference information.
Standard, one-time purchase ($14.99):
• No limit on searches or importing.
Premium, yearly subscription ($14.99). Requires a Standard purchase.
• Cloud sync with all your iOS devices and Bookends for Mac (separate purchase).
• Share online libraries with colleagues.
• Scan documents with Mellel Mobile*.
• Create multiple libraries.
• Unlimited barcode scanning.
• Extract PDF annotations with deep links to annotations and text.
• Convenient UI to add PDF notes to the library.
• Automate your actions with Shortcuts.
* iPad-only. Requires a Mellel Mobile Premium subscription.
Subscription is for one year and has an auto-renew option. The subscription can be managed in iOS -> Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions. A subscription will renew if it isn't canceled at least 24 hours before the renewal date.
If the subscription is not renewed, Premium will be disabled but Standard will continue to work.
Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 4.2
• Attach File option available via the Edit Reference menu button.
• Attachment thumbnails display more file types supported by iOS.
• Attachments can be renamed on import according to options set in Settings.
• Reference and Smart Groups UIs have been modernized.
Ratings and Reviews
The best reference management software for Mac & iOS users
This really blows the cross platform competition out of the water, there is no better software out there for this purpose. Using this iOS/iPadOS app together with the desktop Mac app is an incredible duo. PDF annotation is excellent, as it’s ability to link to other apps. This app combo alone makes me glad I’m a Mac user, the windows software and cross platform software out there, is just well behind. The support is very good and very fast to roll out new features and make changes in response to feedback. Don’t hesitate, if you are a student studying or in academia get this iOS app together with the MacOS desktop version. You won’t be disappointed, it’s the best out there - by a long shot!
Wow!!!
I have a university licence for endnote but I’ve long preferred Bookends for macOS. But often I’m without a laptop and I’m in a symposium or talk and want to check a reference or paper. I do always have my iPhone and being able have my full desktop research database synced automatically to my phone and access it anytime is AMAZING! Bookends for iOS is very elegantly and intuitively designed, and the sync is flawless so far. I wish I’d started using it sooner!!! Bookends is by far the best reference manager, and that is true on the desktop and on mobile platforms too! Thank you for such an excellent product.
The best...
I love Bookends - there really is nothing to touch it; everything else is limited or slow or just not being developed/supported. My only criticism - the only one I can think of - is that the left-side listing of references is, in terms of layout, so much poorer than Endnote, which is very good in that respect. But I would never use Endnote because it is so deficient in other ways. Guys at Bookends, how about a lovely UI work-over?
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Sonny Software, LLC
- Size
- 82 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2011-2025 Sonny Software
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Premium £14.99
- Standard £14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.