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Citavi - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: December 2025

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

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Citavi reviews

Overall rating

4.4

/5

42

Positive reviews

83

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.14/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

31

4

3

0

4

Pros
“I am not only satisfied, but enthusiastic about the software - the Citavi support team is extremely competent, friendly, seeks and finds individual solutions - great.”
MS

Marc S.

Management

“CITAVI is a SUPER stable, easy to use and useful program. Within years of working with it I collected 1635 sources, many with quotations and some with full text.”
PR

Peter R.

Professor retired

“With citavi, it is super easy to keep track of thousands of sources and also retrieve them again after years, even if you didnt know anymore that you have a source.”
JH

Jakob H.

Legal Researcher

Cons
“For sure there are missing features - this is always the case when you use a software as this is a living process. But the missing points are on a high level.”
PJ

Paul J.

Assoc. Prof.

“Problem: We have a collection of now over 10.000 titles listed in the software Citavi, many of them kept in over 33 folders. With those consecutive numbers we could find them easily.”
KH

Karl-Heinz U.

Prof. Dr.

“That's a shame since this limits the user base.”
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Ganjar W.

Founder

Who uses Citavi?

Based on 42 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Research
Higher Education
Education Management
Information Technology and Services
Others

Use cases

Knowledge Management
Content Management
Content Collaboration
Note-Taking

Citavi's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Citavi users:

Collaboration tools
Content management
Commenting/Notes
Access controls/permissions
Document management
Full text search

All Citavi features

Features rating:

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

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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.

“I am not only satisfied, but enthusiastic about the software - the Citavi support team is extremely competent, friendly, seeks and finds individual solutions - great.”
MS

Marc S.

Management

“CITAVI is a SUPER stable, easy to use and useful program. Within years of working with it I collected 1635 sources, many with quotations and some with full text.”
PR

Peter R.

Professor retired

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. What type of pricing plans does Citavi offer?

Citavi has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $519.00/year
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Citavi?

Citavi has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Citavi support?

Citavi supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish


Q. Does Citavi offer an API?

No, Citavi does not have an API available.


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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