Ready from the menu bar
Capture a citation without losing the document, browser tab or thought already in front of you.
A citation library for Mac and iPad
Your citations,
beautifully organised.
Turn the identifiers already in your research workflow into clean, editable BibTeX. Keep the result in a calm library that follows you between Mac and iPad.
Designed for macOS 14+ and iPadOS 17+
Paste what you already have.
- DOI
- PubMed
- arXiv
- HAL
- GitHub
Your research, in order
More than a conversion history.
Folders, tags and favourites turn loose identifiers into a library you can actually return to. On iPad, drag citations where they belong. iCloud keeps the same structure ready on your Mac.
- Folders for projects, classes and papers
- Flexible tags across the whole library
- Favourites and fast search
- Mac and iPad sync with iCloud
Focused by design
- Not a Zotero replacement
- Not a Mendeley replacement
- Not an Overleaf replacement
MenuDOI complements those workflows with clean, portable citation data.
A proper BibTeX editor
Readable enough to review. Native enough to edit.
MenuDOI keeps generated citations editable. Fields align cleanly, long values wrap, and syntax colour makes the structure easy to scan without turning the app into an IDE.
Syntax colourLine numbersNative selectionClean indentation
Papers, books—and software
Cite the work behind the work.
Bring journal articles, theses, proceedings, datasets and software into one place. A GitHub repository can become a software citation, preferring its citation file when the project provides one.
MenuDOI also understands the wider BibTeX entry family, so the library is not limited to journal articles.
Interoperable by design
Your library leaves in the format you need.
Export a folder or the complete library. Keep BibTeX for LaTeX, or move into another research tool without rebuilding every record.
- BibTeX.bib
- RIS.ris
- CSL JSON.json
- EndNote.enw
- PubMed.nbib
At home on every screen
Made for the way Apple devices work.
Drag and drop on iPad
Move citations between folders with direct manipulation, keyboard and pointer support.
One library with iCloud
Changes made on Mac and iPad stay part of the same organised research library.
Available in Shortcuts
Generate, format and open citations from the workflows you already use.
Built on open source
BibTeXKit at its core.
MenuDOI is built by the creator of BibTeXKit, the open-source Swift library that powers its BibTeX parsing and formatting.
MenuDOI for Mac and iPad
Give every citation a place.
From identifier to editable BibTeX, then into the folder, file or format your research needs.