Name | Compatibility | Free / Paid | Description |
Pocket 5.6 | iPhones and iPads only | Free |
Used to easily save articles, videos and interesting links we find to peruse them later. |
iAnnotate PDF 1.14 | Android tablets | Free | Used for reading and annotating PDFs. Lets you annotate, manage, search, and share documents. |
Articlesearch 2.5 | iPhones and iPads only | Free | Enables you to perform simultaneous searches across multiple sources, for scientific papers, journals, articles, magazines and academic publications. |
Instant Research Report | Android | Free | Enter the area of research and application will displays latest news, videos, scholarly reports, wiki data and related books. |
Research Highlights 1.406 | Android | Free | Helps in keeping track of newly-published research. |
University Research News 3.0 | Android | Free | The app enables news and feed regarding latest researches conducted in some of the top universities in the world. |
Referey 0.8.5 | Android | Free | Referey allows users to view Mendeley database and open associated local files on Android phone or Dropbox. |
instaGrok 1.3.0 | Ipad | Free | instaGrok is an educational (re)search engine that lets students research any topic as a concept map. Users can pin their favorite materials to their grok and take notes in the built-in journals. |
Qwiki | iOS | Free | Qwiki automatically turns pictures and videos from events users have captured on their iPhone into brief movies to share. |
Simplemind | iOS, Android and Desktop | Free | A mind mapping tool that allows you to brainstorm ideas and also structure ideas and thoughts. Easy sync and navigation between mobiles, tablets and desktop. |
Notability (4.0) | iPad | Paid | Allows you to take pages of handwritten notes and create audio recordings of lectures and interviews that sync with the notes you type in the process. |
Scanner Pro's | iPad/ iPod | Paid | This application allows you to scan checks, agreements, pages, whiteboards and multipage documents. |
Goodreader 4 | iOS 8 | Paid | Its core functions have been in the realms of PDF file management, viewing and annotation. |
Papers | iOS | Free | This application provides a means of downloading, organizing, and tagging your PDF-based research. |
MindNode | iOS | Paid | It allows you to organize ideas and thoughts into mind maps. |
LogMeIn | iOS/ Android | Paid | LogMeIn allows you to access your home/work computers on the go. |
EasyBib | iOS | Free | It delivers citations in MLA, AP, or Chicago styles. |
DevonThink Pro: File Management | Mac | Paid | This application allows you to save all your documents, keep them organized, and recalls them when you need them. |
Feedly Feed reader | Android/iOS | Free | Feedly is an RSS news reader. |
RefWorks | Web-enabled mobile phones, smart phones, and personal data assistants (PDAs) | Free | It is a web-based bibliographic management program. |
Reference Manager | Mac/Windows | Free | Reference Manager is a software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies. |
AnyDo | Android, iPhone, Chrome and Web | Free | A to-do list application that can help you to manage your time effectively. |
Buzzsumo | iOS | Paid | Its a resource for finding relevant articles and journals for your research. |
myHomework | iOS/ Mac/ Windows/ Windows phone | Free | This application allows students to organize assignments/research/projects and due dates. |
YouNote lite | iOS/Windows phone/Mac/Windows | Free | Lets you take text, audio, picture, or web notes and access them whenever you need to on your mobile device or home computer. |
Name | Compatibility | Paid/Free | Description |
Refscan | iOS | Free | Helps to scan and capture references. Accesses the bibliographic information and times cited counts directly from the worlds leading research platform, Web of Science, and save them to the users free EndNote online account to retrieve anytime, anywhere no subscriptions required. |
iSource APA | iPad | Paid | iSource aloows formatting of bibliography entries and in-text citations, saves these formatted entries all in one place. |
CiteLighter | Chrome | Free | Citelighter is an academic research tool that provides an organizational framework for writing papers. |
Diigo | Chrome | Free | Diigo is an extension for annotating, archiving and bookmarking webpages. |
Cite This For Me: Web Citer | Chrome | Free | Automatically create website citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles at the click of a button. |
Citable | Chrome | Free | Save citable quotes and notes from the web into Google spreadsheets. |
Bookmark SYNC xmarks | Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari | Free | It synchronizes any of your bookmarks across all your browsers, computers, smartphones and tablets. |
Zotero | Chrome and Firefox | Free | Zotero is a research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library. |
Mendeley | iOS/ Windows/ iPhone/ ipAD | Free/Paid | Is a free reference manager and academic social network which makes your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device. |
ScrapBook | Firefox | Free | Extension for the web browser Firefox that saves entire web pages or blurbs from web pages to your desktop, along with the pages address. |