The top alternatives to Citavi are Mendeley, Zotero and Avidnote, ranked by Staquest on relevance, shared use cases, and pricing. Mendeley is the strongest free option.
Staquest ranks Mendeley as the top alternative to Citavi — Reference manager with AI-powered reading assistants.. The full ranked list above compares 10 options.
Mendeley offers a free tier and is the highest-ranked free alternative to Citavi in Staquest's analysis.
Staquest identifies 10 tools similar to Citavi using graph relationships, embedding similarity, and shared categories. The closest are Mendeley, Zotero, Avidnote.
Zotero is an open-source alternative to Citavi listed in this ranking.
Alternatives are ranked by verified relationships, semantic similarity, and category overlap.
