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Best Endnote Apps

199+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.5 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated May 2026

Every iPhone needs a few good endnote apps. We benchmark 199+ of them on App Store rating, freshness, and pricing, then surface the standouts so you don't have to scroll the App Store yourself.

Compare top Endnote Apps (May 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1EndNoteEndNoteFree2.6★ (165)NoNoSep 2026
2ZoteroZoteroFree4.6★ (420)NoNoSep 2026
3Microsoft OneNoteMicrosoft OneNoteFree4.7★ (1.1M)NoYesSep 2026
4Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDFGoodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDFFree4.7★ (449K)NoYesSep 2026
5Evernote: AI Notes & NotebookEvernote: AI Notes & NotebookFree4.4★ (78K)NoYesSep 2026
6Notability: AI Notes & PlannerNotability: AI Notes & PlannerFree4.8★ (455K)NoYesSep 2026
7Essayist: Academic Writing AppEssayist: Academic Writing AppFree4.5★ (404)NoYesSep 2026
8PubMed PMC Bookshelf SearchPubMed PMC Bookshelf SearchFree4.2★ (182)YesNoSep 2026

Top Picks for Endnote

EndNote#1

EndNote by Clarivate Analytics (US) LLC

Editor's Choice
📊 Productivity
2.6😐(165 ratings)
Free
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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.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Syncs well with desktop version
  • 📚 Convenient for reading and annotating papers
  • 💻 Good companion to desktop app
  • 🔍 Useful for managing references on the go
  • 🖋️ Annotation tools work well with Apple Pencil

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🔍 Clunky search and organization
  • 📁 Sync issues and lost annotations
  • 🔒 Incompatible with other cloud storage
  • 🔧 Missing key features from desktop version
Zotero#2

Zotero by Corporation for Digital Scholarship

Your research assistant
Strong Contender
📊 Productivity
4.6😊(420 ratings)
Free
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This research tool helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your academic and professional work. Save articles, books, and webpages, add notes and highlights, and generate bibliographies in thousands of styles. Collaborate with others and sync your library across devices.

What We Love

  • 👍 Simple and powerful
  • 🚀 Convenient and useful
  • 🚀 Seamless syncing across devices
  • 🚀 Excellent reference management
  • 👍 Great annotation and PDF reading experience
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Syncing issues with WebDAV
  • 🐛 Metadata not automatically extracted from PDFs
  • 🐛 Annotation tools could be improved
  • 🐛 Limited sorting and filtering options
Microsoft OneNote#3

Microsoft OneNote by Microsoft Corporation

Capture Notes, Ideas and Memos
Worth Considering
📊 Productivity
4.7😐(1.1M ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Capture thoughts, ideas, and plans in a digital notepad. Organize, search, and secure your notes, memos, and sketches. Sync across devices for access anywhere, anytime. Collaborate with others on shared notepads.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Simple, works well
  • 👍 Great for planning
  • 👍 Powerful note-taking app
  • 👍 Invaluable tool for note taking
  • 👍 Used for years, couldn't be without this app
  • 👍 Helps keep up with college
  • 👍 A+ for getting life organized
  • 👍 Best app to get organized
  • 👍 Excellent across ALMOST all platforms
  • 👍 Excellent for work and school
  • 👍 Wonderful app (better than Evernote)
  • 👍 Paperless uni student
  • 👍 EVERYTHING in one place & mega easy to find
  • 👍 Amazing. Especially since it's free
  • 👍 Awesome app
  • 👍 Using it for years

Room to Improve

  • 🔨 Could be better
  • 🔨 Formatting issues on mobile app
  • 🔨 Buggy widget, no dark app icon
  • 🐛 Glitchy, crashes often
  • 🐛 Terrible sync speeds
  • 🐛 The drawing tool switches to text tool without being selected
  • 🐛 Crashes since iOS 17
  • 🐛 Dude, please fix scrolling issue
  • 🐛 Bugs, lots of bugs
  • 🐛 Terrible on iPad, very slow
  • 🐛 Glitchy af now
  • 🐛 Strokes vanish randomly when writing with Apple Pencil
  • 🐛 No easy way to select large amounts of only highlighting
  • 🐛 Unbelievably unreliable
  • 🐛 Wildly inconsistent syncing
  • 🐛 Very glitchy, too risky
  • 🐛 App crashing

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FAQ about Endnote

What are the best endnote apps for iPhone?
EndNote tops our endnote apps ranking as of May 2026, with a 2.6-star average from 165 App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 20 of the top endnote apps we rank are free to download, including EndNote and Zotero.
EndNote has no ads and has no in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of May 2026.
We track 199+ endnote apps on the iOS App Store as of May 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.
The EndNote app is a research management tool that allows users to collect, organize, search, share, and create bibliographies from their research materials. It provides flexible tools for managing academic papers and connecting with your EndNote library from any device.
Key features include syncing your research library across iOS, online, and desktop platforms, a built-in web browser for searching academic databases, a PDF viewer with annotation capabilities, importing various reference file formats, and options for sharing references and attachments with collaborators.