64
BU Score
Solid
Zotero
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Zotero is an iOS app from Zotero in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.6★ across 411 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 64 — Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (58 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (411 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 166 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v2.0.6🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 AF, SQ, AM, AR, HY +53📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📝 About this app
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your work.
COLLECT
• Save journal articles, newspaper articles, books, webpages, and more via the Share button in Safari and other apps
• Automatically download article PDFs to read
• Quickly add physical books and articles to your Zotero library by scanning book barcodes or article DOIs with your iPhone or iPad camera
ORGANIZE
• Use collections and tags to organize your research
• View and edit bibliographic information for your research items
ANNOTATE
• Read PDFs, EPUBs, and webpage snapshots and add highlights and notes, or use an Apple Pencil to make freehand annotations
CITE
• Instantly generate citations and bibliographies in over 10,000 formats and journal styles including APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, Turabian, and Vancouver
SHARE
• Collaboratively collect sources and mark up PDFs in group libraries with your colleagues
• Synchronize your personal and group research libraries to access them via Zotero’s desktop app and the Zotero website
• Use the Zotero desktop app to insert your annotations into Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs documents and automatically generate bibliographies from the sources you used
Visit zotero.org to learn more about everything you can do with Zotero.
Having trouble? Have an idea? Post bug reports and feature requests to the Zotero Forums at forums.zotero.org to talk directly to Zotero developers.
ZOTERO AND PRIVACY
Since 2006, the Zotero team has been committed to creating the best research software, and we believe that includes putting you in full control of your own work. We’re an independent, nonprofit organization, and we’ll never sell your data.
COLLECT
• Save journal articles, newspaper articles, books, webpages, and more via the Share button in Safari and other apps
• Automatically download article PDFs to read
• Quickly add physical books and articles to your Zotero library by scanning book barcodes or article DOIs with your iPhone or iPad camera
ORGANIZE
• Use collections and tags to organize your research
• View and edit bibliographic information for your research items
ANNOTATE
• Read PDFs, EPUBs, and webpage snapshots and add highlights and notes, or use an Apple Pencil to make freehand annotations
CITE
• Instantly generate citations and bibliographies in over 10,000 formats and journal styles including APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, Turabian, and Vancouver
SHARE
• Collaboratively collect sources and mark up PDFs in group libraries with your colleagues
• Synchronize your personal and group research libraries to access them via Zotero’s desktop app and the Zotero website
• Use the Zotero desktop app to insert your annotations into Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs documents and automatically generate bibliographies from the sources you used
Visit zotero.org to learn more about everything you can do with Zotero.
Having trouble? Have an idea? Post bug reports and feature requests to the Zotero Forums at forums.zotero.org to talk directly to Zotero developers.
ZOTERO AND PRIVACY
Since 2006, the Zotero team has been committed to creating the best research software, and we believe that includes putting you in full control of your own work. We’re an independent, nonprofit organization, and we’ll never sell your data.
🆕 What's New · v2.0.6
- Added ability to customize annotation toolbar in settings
- Preserve page zoom when tapping page edge to turn pages
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
- Preserve page zoom when tapping page edge to turn pages
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Zotero
- Developer
- Zotero
- Bundle ID
- org.zotero.ios.Zotero
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, SQ, AM, AR, HY, EU, BN, BR, BG, KM, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, GL, KA, DE, EL, HE, HU, IS, IG, ID, IT, JA, JV, KN, KK, KO, LT, MK, MN, NB, NN, OC, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SV, TA, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI, CY
Company
- Website
- www.zotero.org
- Tagline
- Your personal research assistant
- Description
- Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- https://github.com/zotero
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://www.zotero.org/blog/
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- github
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://www.zotero.org/support/
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth411 ratings+675% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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