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Streamline your research and writing.

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Citavi - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: April 2026

Citavi overview

What is Citavi?

For researchers, Citavi is the only all-in-one scholarly note-taking and reference management application that streamlines organizing and reviewing articles, taking notes, and writing papers in one place so that they can focus on what matters – research and publishing.

Starting price

519per user /
per year

Citavi pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
1-2(5)
3-4(7)
5(31)

What do users say about Citavi?

It is very cumbersome and has bizarre quirksYou need to spend a lot of time watching videos and working it out to learn how to do things that should be pretty easy to do.

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Who uses Citavi?

Based on 43 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Research
Higher Education
Information Technology and Services
Fine Art
Others

Use cases

Knowledge Management
Content Management
Content Collaboration
Note-Taking

Citavi's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Citavi users:

Content management
Document management
Commenting/Notes
Data import/export
Access controls/permissions
Collaboration tools

All Citavi features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Alerts/Notifications
API
Chat/Messaging
Collaboration tools
Commenting/Notes
Content library
Content management
Content publishing options
Data import/export
Data synchronization
Document classification
Document management
Drag & drop
File management
File sharing
Full text search
Metadata management
Multi-Language
Project management
Real time editing
Real-Time notifications
Reporting & statistics
Search/Filter
Single sign on
Tagging
Task management
Task Planning
Task scheduling
User management

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Citavi pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

519

/user

Per year

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Citavi price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Citavi's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“The technical support do come back to you even if it is to say hey that is how our product works sorry about that.”
KB

Karen B.

Student

“I have contacted them three times and they have promised finance will contact me about a refund.”
KB

Karen B.

Student

Citavi integrations (3)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 43 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Citavi integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

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NVivo

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Facilita la importación de un grupo de documentos bibliográficos para realizar un análisis integral, junto a los datos que vamos recabando en nuestro trabajo de campo.

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Lorenzo S.

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Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Citavi support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
Knowledge Base
FAQs/Forum

Training options

Webinars
Documentation
Videos

Citavi FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Citavi?

Citavi has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Mid-size Business, Large Enterprises, Freelancers

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Q. What level of support does Citavi offer?

Citavi offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum

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