spotsaas-logo
Get Listed
Zotero - New SaaS Software

Zotero Reviews in May 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Elevate your research game with ease and precision.

4.2

Add to compare

Request a Quote

Zotero Reviews & Ratings

4.2

Very Good

Based on 7 ratings & 97 reviews

Rating Distribution

Excellent

(70)

Very Good

(19)

Good

(7)

Poor

(1)

Terible

(0)

Log in Required to View Reviews

Filter results

Sort by :

Relevance
Relevance
Highest-Rated
Lowest-Rated
Least-Recent
Most-Recent

Share this page

Showing 21-30 out of 97

ZA

Zoe A

11/05/21

4.5 out of 5

"User-friendly interface"

What do you like best about Zotero? It's pretty easy to figure out the program. Useful for researchers to share articles and papers written by others for citation purposes. Very nice organizing features What do you dislike about Zotero? Not always the easiest to move libraries across different devices. Recommendations to others considering Zotero: Make sure you share admin rights with everyone on your team. You can always customize how much control someone has, but it makes things ...

Read more

ZA

Zoe A

11/05/21

4.5 out of 5

"User-friendly interface"

What do you like best about Zotero? It's pretty easy to figure out the program. Useful for researchers to share articles and papers written by others for citation purposes. Very nice organizing features What do you dislike about Zotero? Not always the easiest to move libraries across different devices. Recommendations to others considering Zotero: Make sure you share admin rights with everyone on your team. You can always customize how much control someone has, but it makes things ...

Read more

GN

Grzegorz N

11/01/21

4.5 out of 5

"Organization of citations"

What do you like best about Zotero? Easily manage your citations from your text editor What do you dislike about Zotero? No continuation of browser version, only PC version available What problems is Zotero solving and how is that benefiting you? I can manage literature. Citing publications is very easy.

GN

Grzegorz N

11/01/21

4.5 out of 5

"Organization of citations"

What do you like best about Zotero? Easily manage your citations from your text editor What do you dislike about Zotero? No continuation of browser version, only PC version available What problems is Zotero solving and how is that benefiting you? I can manage literature. Citing publications is very easy.

AH

Andrew H

10/19/21

5 out of 5

"Zotero is the BEST citation manager"

What do you like best about Zotero? Zotero is stable and reliable. I do not need to be online to use the desktop application and it syncs seamlessly with the cloud. Because it is open-source, I can install plugins that further personalize the experience. I use ZotFile to sync my pdfs, which I link to the citations, with my OneDrive cloud server. This allows me to fully sync all of my files without having to pay for a subscription. Furthermore, in my 5+ years using Zotero, I have never had ...

Read more

AH

Andrew H

10/19/21

5 out of 5

"Zotero is the BEST citation manager"

What do you like best about Zotero? Zotero is stable and reliable. I do not need to be online to use the desktop application and it syncs seamlessly with the cloud. Because it is open-source, I can install plugins that further personalize the experience. I use ZotFile to sync my pdfs, which I link to the citations, with my OneDrive cloud server. This allows me to fully sync all of my files without having to pay for a subscription. Furthermore, in my 5+ years using Zotero, I have never had ...

Read more

AU

Anonymous User

10/15/21

3 out of 5

"Powerful but clunky at times"

What do you like best about Zotero? Web browser-enabled functionality to add sources to my existing reference library. Also the ability to sync via cloud (when it works - see below). Relatively simple and easy to use interface. What do you dislike about Zotero? Inability to annotate saved PDFs (like you can in Mendeley) and very restrictive storage amount in the free version (upgraded for minimal cost but compared to Mendeley, the Zotero free version provides much less functionality). Also, ...

Read more

AU

Anonymous User

10/14/21

5 out of 5

"Great product that was a lifesaver for my college thesis"

What do you like best about Zotero? Ease of inputting citations and changing the type of citation (eg from MLA to Chicago Style) What do you dislike about Zotero? I certainly wouldn't describe it as a sleek interface What problems is Zotero solving and how is that benefiting you? Citations are incredibly time-consuming. I've used EastBib, but the experience is lackluster. The benefits are enormous time savings. Zotero cuts the time it takes to do citations from an hour to 15 minutes.

AU

Anonymous User

10/14/21

5 out of 5

"Great product that was a lifesaver for my college thesis"

What do you like best about Zotero? Ease of inputting citations and changing the type of citation (eg from MLA to Chicago Style) What do you dislike about Zotero? I certainly wouldn't describe it as a sleek interface What problems is Zotero solving and how is that benefiting you? Citations are incredibly time-consuming. I've used EastBib, but the experience is lackluster. The benefits are enormous time savings. Zotero cuts the time it takes to do citations from an hour to 15 minutes.

HJ

Hannah J

09/12/21

5 out of 5

"Excellent, and you can freely reccomend to others"

What do you like best about Zotero? Zotero is really easy to use. It's a dream. All your citations are logged in an organized file system with compies of the source!! And my favorite part is you don't have to hold back in reccomending it to others since it's free and open source. What do you dislike about Zotero? I don't really see any downsides. I do wish it had a friendly invitation link to share with others. In other words, I wish Zotero received more hype. I have worked as a consultant ...

Read more