Rectoly for Zotero is an independent reader for iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. It opens your Zotero library, lets you highlight and write with Apple Pencil, and sends every annotation back to Zotero.Rectoly for Zotero is an independent reader for iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. It opens your Zotero library, lets you highlight and write with a stylus, and sends every annotation back to Zotero.
Free for 14 days · then $19.99, once · Mac: macOS 14.0 or later, Apple silicon · Android: Android 9 or later, 64-bit
Zotero is already the library. Rectoly is the reader — built so handwriting, highlights, and split view feel native, then sync straight back to the collection you maintain on your computer.Zotero is already the library. Rectoly is the reader — built so handwriting, highlights, and split view feel native on Android, then sync straight back to the collection you maintain on your computer.
Keep the Zotero workflow. Add the iPad experience it has been missing.Keep the Zotero workflow. Add the Android experience it has been missing.
Two-column papers reflow into one clean column, and you work in that column: highlight, underline and write with Apple Pencil on it, pinch to zoom, and use the whole screen in landscape.Two-column papers reflow into one clean column, and you work in that column: highlight, underline and write with a stylus on it, pinch to zoom, and use the whole screen in landscape.
Learn MoreLearn MoreTalks to your Zotero library the way the desktop app does. Collections, attachments, and notes stay in one workflow.
Learn MoreLearn MoreHandwriting and highlights that keep up with you — with palm rejection and precise ink, the way iPad should feel.Handwriting and highlights with your stylus, placed exactly where you mean them — on Android tablets and E Ink devices.
Learn MoreLearn MorePin a figure beside the text and keep reading instead of scrolling back to it. Or split the reader: Reading Mode on one side, the original page on the other.
Learn MoreLearn MoreHandwriting on the PDF syncs to Zotero as real ink annotations, so it is there on the desktop too. It is also backed up to iCloud with a restorable version history and exports as JSON.
Learn MoreLearn MoreLocalized for researchers worldwide. Available in English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German, French, and 14 more languages.
Rectoly translates a paper into the language you read in, and the model that does the translating runs on your own machine. Download it once and translation keeps working with the network switched off — a paper under review, a draft nobody has seen, never leaves the device. And a tablet too small to run the model can hand the work to your computer and get the translation back.
Your library, your annotations, and two pages side by side, in three short recordings.Three short recordings from an Android tablet.
Browse collections and papers the way you already organize them on the desktop.
Highlights, sticky notes, and Apple Pencil ink — with translucent highlights you can read through.Highlights, underlines and sticky notes, and handwriting with a stylus.
Two pages or two papers, side by side, without switching tabs.
Zotero stays free. Rectoly is the paid reader on top of it: one payment, nothing to renew.
Rectoly for Zotero is an independent reader for iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. It opens the papers in your Zotero library, lets you highlight, annotate and write on them with Apple Pencil, and sends every annotation back to Zotero.
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Read with the same library and the same annotations. The app downloads from this site, and one purchase covers it together with iPad, Windows, Mac and Linux.