Bookends

Bookends is really a good software. The only problem is the marketing department or whatever person in charge to determining the price of the services. Is there a reason why you should ask 10$ per year for using the Cloud service ?? We already spend every month a charge for their Cloud why you should ask for money for using the same service? Theoretically I could understand a situation in which you offer us your own cloud service. So at the end we have to pay 60$ for the desktop version (indispensable for using this reference manager) plus the standard version for iOS 10$ and another yearly 10$ for the ‘Cloud Sync’. This is a total of 80$ (!) when you buy this software.

The app is super and I suggest it, maybe one of the best on mac for reference management the but the politics of the selling is not entirely clear. Does the pro version requires extra 10 € once you have the standard or when you buy the pro you only pay the difference? Moreover information should be given about the sync with the desktop app. Even if you pay for the pro version the desktop app costs you additional 70€ if you want to have sync bibliography in multiple devices.

A portata di mano sempre le tue fonti bibliografiche. Abbinata (e sincronizzata) con l’app x Mac diventa formidabile !

Simple, Clear, Rapid and Swift. Great App !

Abbastanza flessibile, tanto che lo uso quotidianamente. La caratteristica a mio avviso più utile, che io spero sia sempre conservata, è quella di poter inserire la propria personale stringa di ricerca per EzProxy e simili servizi online. Potrebbe essere migliorato aggiungendo funzionalità della omonima applicazione per Mac che consente di inserire i riferimenti e generare la bibliografia dei manoscritti, in maniera da poter effettuare tutto il ciclo di sviluppo di un manoscritto sull’iPad.

This latest update has streamlined the functionality. I etnusiastically recommend without reservation.

Been using Bookends for Mac and iOS for a couple years now and it is rock solid. It allows me to have a huge library available everywhere and always in sync. Developers have been highly responsive and helpful.

I stumbled upon this in my pursuit of an app that allows nuanced deep linking to pdf pages across ios and desktop. I was blown away to find that bookends handles this very well. I am now embarking on the onerous task of swapping my general pdf library to bookends.

This is a great app. It’s actively maintained and updated, and the iPad app has all the bells and whistles like support for multi-window (which is a must if you want to read a pdf and add notes or keywords to the meta-data), slide-over, etc. It’s support for Apple Pencil hand-written notes is top-notch, much better than anything else I’ve tried (ReadCube Papers). All in all, a wonderful app.

After using Zotero for years, it took me a little while to get used to Bookends. However, it’s been well worth the effort. It does almost everything that Zotero does, plus a whole lot more. Additionally, it’s easier to organize, and is visually more appealing. The one thing I miss is how Zotero has a browser extension that makes it super simple to create a reference for a website with all the information pre-populated. If Bookends adds this feature, it will be the best reference manager I’ve ever used by a long shot. Altogether, Bookends extra features are endlessly satisfying and useful. And for those who are up for a little scripting, Bookends invites you to be creative! I love this app and am really enthusiastic about using it for years to come.