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What is Zenreader?

Zenreader is a desktop software used by students, researchers and professionals to collect, organise and combine knowledge to produce great work in less time.

Zenreader is used to rapidly build a body of knowledge and evidence from PDF documents and webpages. With Zenreader users read documents, highlight text and images, capture thoughts and draft evidence-based notes. With one click users then export all of your work to your favourite writing software.

Zenreader is designed with productivity in mind and comes with features to help manage the user's work including a note tagging system, note drag & drop, one-click to go from notes to the original source document, multi-document full text search and trello-like kanban boards.

The vendor states that with Zenreader, users produce excellent research documents faster than with other tools, whilst enjoying the work more.

Categories & Use Cases

Screenshots

Screenshot of PDF Reader with Tagged image and text highlights. The text search panel is open, showing matched words with their surrounding context.
Screenshot of Zenreader's Outliner used for creating drafts. Drag and drop highlights directly into the outlines and then export everything. The references engine takes care of the citations and bibliography.
Screenshot of Document Kanban Boards: manage your project's work by organising the documents by tags or by moving them to the relevant kanban columns.
Screenshot of Zenreader comes with a project history: showing you what you worked on and when. This is great to be able to trace back how much time you have spent and when you reviewed a particular document.

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Screenshot of PDF Reader with Tagged image and text highlights. The text search panel is open, showing matched words with their surrounding context.

Technical Details

Technical Details
Deployment TypesOn-Premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Italian

FAQs

What are Zenreader's top competitors?
Mendeley, Paperpile, and ReadCube Papers are common alternatives for Zenreader.