Comparison

EndNote vs Findings

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

EndNote

Manage your research from anywhere with this popular tool. Organize, search, and share academic papers and bibliographies seamlessly across devices. Sync your library and annotate PDFs on the go.

Highlights
  • Sync research library across devices
  • Search academic databases
  • Annotate PDFs
  • Import reference file formats
  • Share references with collaborators
  • Attach files from cloud storage
Features
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Collect, collaborate, create from anywhere with the EndNote app - the world's most popular research management tool. With flexible tools for searching, organizing, sharing research, and creating bibliographies, the EndNote app extends your ability to stay on top of cutting edge research and connect with your EndNote library on the go. EndNote enables you to easily view, edit, organize, and share research material on your iOS device. By syncing your research library across iOS, online, and desktop, you increase the power of EndNote by gaining seamless access to your reference library from multiple devices and platforms. The EndNote app includes: - Sign up for a free, EndNote online account or sign in to an existing account - Synchronize your library references, attachments, and PDF annotations to your online account and EndNote desktop - Built in web browser to search Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar, your library catalog, or any other database you choose - Built in PDF viewer with wide range of annotation features. Annotations made can be synced and edited online and on the EndNote desktop - Importing capabilities for .ris, .nbib, and other popular reference file formats - Email and copy options for sharing references and file attachments with collaborators - EndNote “temporary citation” format support - Attach files from Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive to your references (accounts available separately) - Viewing and editing options for references and file attachments - Sorting, searching, and grouping options for references and file attachments - Getting Started Guide documentation

About

Findings

This app serves as a digital lab notebook for researchers and scientists. It allows for easy tracking of experiments, results, and protocols, with features for timers, timestamps, and data synchronization. Research can be shared and collaborated on, ensuring data ownership and accessibility.

Highlights
  • Experiment tracking and organization
  • Integrated timers and timestamps
  • Protocol management and organization
  • Automatic Dropbox synchronization
  • Data export to PDF
  • Collaboration and sharing features
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Findings is your lab notebook, reinvented. With Findings, you can easily keep track of your experiments and your research: your lab notebook is always with you and always up to date, be it on the field, at the bench, or at a conference. Findings helps you browse your results, reproduce crucial experiments, and assemble and publish your discoveries. Findings for iOS is even more powerful when used in combination with Findings for Mac (separate app available on our web site), and with Apple Watch. EXPERIMENTS. With Findings, all your experiments are in one place, neatly arranged and easy to browse. See what you have planned for today and this week. You can follow your progress, add a picture or a quick note, edit your experiment conditions, and never forget a step. Once finished, your results are safely stored alongside your notes and the protocols you used. All in one place, always saved, always accessible to your future self. TIMERS & TIMESTAMPS. You can attach a countdown timer, a stopwatch or a timestamp to any task in any of your experiments. All your running timers are accessible from the list of experiments and can easily be viewed in context with just one more tap. Thanks to local notifications, Findings will remind you when the time has come, whatever app you're using, wherever you are, online or offline. And of course, Apple Watch works great with timers too! PROTOCOLS. Protocols have a special place in Findings, where you can browse, edit, and organize them. Protocols are the primary building blocks of your experiments. You can add one protocol or multiple protocols to an experiment. Once integrated, a copy of the protocol is made, so you can modify it just for that one use, and leave the original untouched. Protocols can be organized by field, with a number of sufields available for each: biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, engineering, mathematics, cookery. Findings is for all the branches of science. SYNC. All your data can be automatically synced and backed up to Dropbox. Once linked to a Dropbox account, your experiments and protocols are shared with Findings on other iOS devices or on your Mac (separate Findings app for Mac available on our web site). SHARING AND COLLABORATING. Your research should not be in a silo. Findings can easily export any subset or all of your experiments and protocols to PDF, with all the attachments neatly arranged in folders. With our smart export/import features, you can also collaborate directly with Findings, and choose what to share, how to share it and when to share it. YOUR DATA IS YOURS. Unlike most electronic lab notebooks (ELN), your data is not stored on a server and remains under your control. Experiments and protocols are stored in an open-source format (PARStore) and are always with you, even when offline. And you can still get the best of both worlds: with Dropbox sync, you can keep your data in sync on multiple devices, while having an extra backup.

Screenshots

EndNote4 screens
Findings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Findings at 83% against EndNote's 28%. Findings also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.6) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). EndNote's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and ratings volume (165 vs 30). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Findings holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EndNote has 165 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of EndNote's written reviews are positive against 83% of Findings's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EndNote ships an update every 4 months, Findings monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
EndNote versus Findings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEndNoteFindings
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (165 ratings)4.4 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.8% of reviews82.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings165 — better30
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperClarivate Analytics (US) LLCNucleobytes BV

Customer experience

EndNote

All ratings165 ratings
Positive32.7%
Neutral14.5%
Negative52.7%
Written reviews370 reviews
Positive27.8%
Neutral11.9%
Negative60.3%

Findings

All ratings30 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.9%
Negative10.3%

Bugs and requests

EndNote

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when editing references
  • Indexing issues and lost library data
  • Compatibility problems with iOS updates
  • PDF viewer issues (e.g. no rotation, lost page position)
  • Login and authentication problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Cite while you write functionality
  • Better PDF annotation tools (e.g. eraser, text notes)
  • Support for group sets and nested folders
  • Automatic citation data population from PDFs
  • Improved syncing and offline access

Findings

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

EndNote

No in-app purchases

None

Findings

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EndNote free?
EndNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Findings free?
Findings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EndNote or Findings?
Findings is rated higher. EndNote averages 2.6 out of 5 from 165 ratings, while Findings averages 4.4 from 30 ratings.
Do EndNote or Findings have ads?
Neither EndNote nor Findings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EndNote or Findings?
EndNote ships an update every 4 months, and Findings monthly. Most recently, EndNote was updated on October 11, 2026 and Findings on September 27, 2026.

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