The next-gen reference manager

One hub for every stage of research. Organize your library, simplify literature reviews, uncover meaningful insights, and verify references before publication. From discovery to synthesis to your final bibliography, CiteGeist keeps your entire research workflow connected.

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Reference Manager
Literature Review
Reference Verification

Example verification pass on three references: one matches its source record, one has the wrong year, and one is missing its DOI.

He, K., Zhang, X., Ren, S., & Sun, J. (2016). Deep residual learning for image recognition. CVPR, 770–778.

Matches source record
Vaswani, A., et al. (2016). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.

Year doesn’t match. Source record says 2017.
LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521, 436–444. No DOI

DOI missing. Found doi:10.1038/nature14539

1 verified, 2 ready for your review

Three tools. One powerful research spirit.

From collecting your sources to uncovering new insights and verifying every citation, CiteGeist brings your entire research workflow together. No more hunting through disconnected tools or being haunted by missing references.

REFERENCE MANAGER

A library so smart, it's almost supernatural

Give your references a spirited upgrade and let AI bring your research to life. Uncover hidden connections, discover papers you didn't know you were missing, and keep every reference right where it belongs.

AI-powered insights: Summarize key findings, methods, and limitations with NVIDIA Nemotron 3.
Discover more: Find related papers and uncover connections you might have missed.
Research together: Collaborate on shared projects.

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Deep learning

LeCun, Bengio & Hinton, Nature, 2015

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AI summary

Research objective and context: The paper surveys recent advances in deep learning, …
Methodology: It explains backpropagation and stochastic gradient descent (SGD) as foundational mechanisms …
Key findings and results: Deep learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance in diverse domains, including …
Limitations or conclusions mentioned: Despite successes, deep learning systems can be computationally intensive to train …

3 related papers not yet in your library

LITERATURE REVIEW

Unearth the evidence, bury the busywork

Say goodbye to haunting spreadsheets and endless screening. From identifying studies to generating PRISMA flow diagrams, keep your decisions organized, documentation transparent, and research moving forward.

Banish the busywork: Generate PRISMA flow diagrams without the manual hassle.
Leave no paper behind: Track identification, deduplication, screening, and exclusions at every stage.
Exorcise spreadsheet chaos: Export structured metadata, including authors, journals, keywords, tags, and notes.

Explore our review tools

CiteGeist PRISMA flow diagram showing records identified, deduplicated, screened, and included

REFERENCE VERIFICATION

Don't let phantom citations haunt your research

Fabricated references, mismatched metadata, and missing information have no place in your bibliography.

Unmask phantom references: Cross-check DOIs, titles, and journals against matched source records.
Flags missing fields and drift between in-text citations and the bibliography
Keep the ghosts at bay: Verify references in bulk and generate shareable reports for coauthors, reviewers, and publishers.

See how verification works

CiteGeist verification report comparing a submitted BibTeX entry with its matched record, field by field

Your research, always within reach.

Move between devices without missing a beat. Your research follows you like a friendly ghost.

Cross-platform support

Research in every dimension

From your desk to your favorite coffee shop, CiteGeist keeps your research connected across devices. No hauntingly complicated workflows. Just research that moves with you.

Real-time sync across desktop, tablet, and mobile
Apple Pencil & stylus annotation, saved to the paper
Pick up exactly where you left off, on any device

CiteGeist open on desktop, laptop, tablet with Apple Pencil, and iPhone, showing the library, AI summary, citation tools, and related-works graph — **CiteGeist across devices** desktop · laptop · tablet & stylus · mobile

Integrations

Works with your writing tools

Cite while you write, wherever you’re writing.

BibTeX Import & export
LaTeX Compatible
Microsoft Word Live
Google Docs Coming soon
Overleaf Coming soon

One click

Change citation style on command

MLA
IEEE
APA
Chicago
Harvard
Vancouver

Reformat your entire manuscript instantly. No manual find-and-replace.

See it in action

Switching from Zotero, EndNote, or Mendeley shouldn't be scary

Your reference library represents years of hard work. Bring it all to CiteGeist from Zotero, EndNote, Mendeley, or your existing PDF collection. With flexible file imports, automatic deduplication, and intelligent paper matching, we make your transition hauntingly simple.

Gather your library

Export from your current tool or a database like PubMed, or grab the PDF folders you already have.
Drop it into CiteGeist

Metadata is matched to source records, and duplicates across every file merge automatically.
Keep writing

Cite into Word from your library, or export BibTeX for LaTeX, just like you do today.

Read the migration guide

Your reference manager just got a serious upgrade.

Other reference managers may be stuck in the 2000s, but your research doesn't have to be. Why settle when you could do so much more? Leave outdated reference managers in the past. Where they belong.

Feature	CiteGeist	Zotero	Mendeley	EndNote
Simple migration without installation and setup hassles	Yes	No	No	No
Related-paper suggestions from your own library	Built in	Plugins	Yes	No
AI summaries of findings, methods, and limitations	Built in	Plugins	Yes	No
PRISMA flow builder for systematic reviews	Built in	Plugins	No	No
Verify every reference, field by field, against its source record	Built in	Plugins	No	No
Turn handwritten notes into shared ideas and collaborative research	Yes	No	No	No

Based on each product’s standard features as of September 2026. Plugins and paid add-ons vary.

Researchers who’ve already upgraded

I’m currently writing my thesis and the experience has been so good that I switched from my previous platform without waiting until I finished the project.

Heather Byrd, MScBioinformatics Analyst

Laptop to iPad is seamless! Quickly imported and organized a huge folder of PDFs with AI summaries. The ability to share annotations and notes makes this a very valuable tool for teams working on publications.

Doug Johnston, MDChief of Cardiac Surgery

Citegeist helps keep my resources AND notes organized in one place. The ‘related papers’ section also saves me a lot of time I would have spent citation tracing!

Diane LeeDoctoral Student

CiteGeist is a transformative research tool that makes managing decades of literature intuitive and efficient. As an active journal reviewer, CiteGeist’s Reference Verification tool has become an indispensable part of my workflow, helping me ensure the accuracy and integrity of every reference I review.

Theresa Kline, PhDProfessor Emeritus

Start free. Upgrade when your library grows.

Phantom $0/mo

Start organizing, no chaos, no cost, no time limit.

50 references
All reference manager features and tools to get you started building your library

Specter $8/mo

More researching. Less hunting. Definitely less haunting.

500 references
Extended paper finder
PRISMA and metadata download

Poltergeist $15/mo

Library size getting supernatural? Call CiteGeist.

5,000 references
Reference verification
Priority support

Legion Custom

For labs, teams, and institutions ready to research as a Legion.

Institution-scale library
SSO & compliance
Dedicated success manager

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