Litmaps vs Zotero
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Litmaps
Citation maps and new-paper alerts built from your seed papers
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Zotero
Free, open-source reference manager from a nonprofit
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free plan: up to 20 search inputs, 100 articles per map, 1–2 maps (the page states both), monthly alert summary | Full app free and open source (AGPL-3.0) on desktop, iOS and Android; unlimited data sync; 300 MB file storage; WebDAV for files; 2 hrs/month standard Read Aloud voices |
| Paid from | $10/month Pro, academic rate billed annually ($120/yr); $12.50 billed monthly | $20/year for 2 GB cloud file storage |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 100k+ researchers | — |
| Founded | 2020 | 2006 |
| Maker | Jake Chandler, Daniel Johnston | Corporation for Digital Scholarship (Digital Scholar) |
| Verdict | Litmaps is good at the expanding-outward stage of a literature review: give it a few seed papers and it maps what they cite, what cites them and what is new, then keeps alerting you as the field moves. It also owns Resea... |
Zotero remains the open-source benchmark for reference management: free on desktop, iOS and Android, with one-click browser capture, a built-in PDF and EPUB reader, and citation plugins for Word, LibreOffice and Google D... |
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