Collect
Search everywhere, from anywhere
Perform direct online searches of the most popular online sources for scientific and scholarly literature and save the references you find to your personal library.
Or use the article's URL in the built-in browser to download and attach the full-text PDF (EZProxy-compliant).
Keep it simple
You have a reference's PMID, DOI, arXiv ID, or ISBN? Then use Quick Add and you're in like Flynn.
Or maybe you own a book you want to add — use the built-in barcode scanner and it is instantly in your collection.
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Download and annotate PDFs of the articles you find with a tap (requires access privileges). Your highlighted passages are directly integrated into the note stream. And if you have a favorite PDF viewer, export/import PDFs via Share.
Organize
Level up
Organize your interrelated reference data into groups and folders. An unlimited multilevel hierarchy means that you can create the logic that works for you.
Islands in the note stream
Colorful notecards created from your thoughts provide a quick and editable overview of what you found, um, notable.
Siri Shorcuts
Siri Shorcuts (Premium feature) are a convient way to access Bookends functions by asking Siri or using the Shortcuts app. Perform searches, find references, and send formatted citations to other apps without opening Bookends.
Cite
Write, cite, and publish
Bookends and Mellel Mobile work together to provide a complete writing platform on the iPad (Premium feature). Without leaving Mellel you can insert citations to references in your Bookends library and, when ready, scan with any of thousands of different journal styles to create publication-ready documents. Take a video tour of this ground-breaking feature.
Sync
Works how you want, and where you want
Although Bookends for iOS is a powerful standalone app, it really shines when paired with Bookends for macOS. Wi-Fi transfer of references and PDFs between your Mac and iOS devices. You can find references when on the go and import them, with PDFs, into Bookends for macOS when you are at your desk (and vice versa).
Your head is in the clouds
Use Cloud Sync to keep all of your devices up-to-date (Premium feature). Share your references and PDFs with collaborators and colleagues.
If you are doing any sort of scholarly research, this is the reference manager.
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Pleasing things
Split screen support.
Works with Apple Pencil.
Email references, suitable for reading or importing into other apps.
Add/edit information that isn't available online.
Multi-library support (Premium subscription).
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