BibDesk for Mac
Bibliographic reference manager.
Free
In English
Version 1.9.4When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
BibDesk overview
BibDesk is a bibliographic reference manager for OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag-and-drop or cut-and-paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for searching your database through several keys.
BibDesk integrates well with TeX for creating citations and bibliographies. This integration includes a Citation search completion service, and drag-and-drop (cut-and-paste) support for adding citations to TeX files.
What’s new in version 1.9.4
New Features
- New default preview template, you may select it manually to use
- New template keys for shortened last names and prefixes or suffixes
- New hidden preference for custom fields to complete
Bugs Fixed
- Fix text preview display
- Make sure correct files are displayed for Quick Look
- Support completion of the Series field
BibDesk for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.9.4
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May 28 2019
Version: 1.7
New in Version 1.7; "New hidden preference to re-enable the Google Scholar web scraper"
Where did you hide it? It isn't in the documentation. Dude.
Aug 4 2017
Version: 1.6.11
Coming back to add 5 stars after 4 years. This is an amazing software, extremely stable and very convenient. My workplace offers a well-known paid alternative for which a pre-paid site-license was purchased (with tech support). No comparison, the free Bibdesk is just superior. Moreover, I just realized that (without doing anything) the two copies of Bibdesk on my two Macs are being synchronized through iCloud (including the links between the Bibdesk listing and the pdf files) ... I'm not sure how this is done but thanks nonetheless :)
Dec 10 2013
Version: 1.6.2
Last time I reviewed this application was almost 8 years ago. Since then it is just getting better and better. It is stable and faster than ever. A real lifesaver, thanks the developers.
