--- description: Get detailed information about Citavi usability, features, price, benefits and disadvantages from verified user experiences. Read reviews and discover similar tools on Capterra United Arab Emirates. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Citavi Price, Reviews & Ratings - Capterra United Arab Emirates 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Knowledge Management Software](/directory/30094/knowledge-management/software) > [Citavi](/software/1014629/citavi) # Citavi Canonical: https://www.capterra.ae/software/1014629/citavi Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ae/software/1014629/citavi?page=2) > Citavi is the only all-in-one scholarly note taking and reference management application. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 43 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Citavi? Intended for organizations and individuals for collaborative research and note taking. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 43 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Lumivero - **Location**: Denver, US - **Founded**: 1984 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: $519.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Price listed is for 1 Citavi license, desktop only. Pricing varies for desktop vs web offering, bundle pricing is available. Special pricing for 6+ licenses. Please contact for more pricing information. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 210 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Collaboration Tools - Content Library - Content Management System (CMS) Software - Content Publishing Options - Data Synchronization - Document Management Software - Drag & Drop - File Sharing Software - Full Text Search - Reporting & Statistics - Search/Filter - Task Management Software ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software ## Category - [Knowledge Management Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30094/knowledge-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Knowledge Management Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30094/knowledge-management/software) - [Content Management System (CMS) Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/10007/content-management/software) - [Content Collaboration Platform](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/32935/content-collaboration/software) - [Note Taking App](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/33155/note-taking/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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And it is the complete opposite of intuitive. ----- ### "Reference Manager and Knowledge Manager in One Pack" — 5.0/5 > **Ganjar** | *20 February 2019* | Civic & Social Organization | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Citavi is a reference manager which works well with various word processor software. However, Citavi is more than reference manager. It also provides tools for users to quote important texts, to write summary and to arrange the references according to your article's structure. After you have done those, when you are working with your article, Citavi will detect the current chapter of your article and will show you relevant references and knowledge (those quotations and summaries that you have made before). Very handy\! Citavi also provides a free student version which allows users to manage up to 100 references. This is very generous, considering Citavi has excellent features necessary for writing scientific articles. > > **Cons**: Citavi does not work on Mac. Users need to install third party software to allow Citavi in a Mac. That's a shame since this limits the user base. ----- ### "Extremely powerful tool, withoud which I could not work" — 5.0/5 > **Jakob** | *21 June 2021* | Research | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The product is incredibly powerful. In my opinion, there are two core functions: on the one hand, you can use Citavi to organize materials (like papers and other files). On the other hand, you can use citavi to facilitate citing those materials when writing papers. But, you do not have to use both. Already, the organizing function is incredibly powerful. > > **Cons**: Personally, I am not missing anything. But you have to keep in mind that it is an incredible powerful tool, so you need time to discover those functions you need most. > > I have been using Citavi since my last years of high school all through university and for my PhD thesis. Without citavi, I would not know how to effectively organize my sources. 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. ----- ### "Does not function as expected - promise refunds they do not honour" — 1.0/5 > **Karen** | *4 October 2023* | Research | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: The sales pitch is great. The technical support do come back to you even if it is to say hey that is how our product works sorry about that. > > **Cons**: It does not do what you need it too. 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. They promise refunds but do not honour them. > > Terrible. I have contacted them three times and they have promised finance will contact me about a refund. They don't and no refund is forthcoming. ----- ### "The must have Literature program for research and education" — 5.0/5 > **Paul** | *29 May 2021* | Higher Education Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The list of features is very long. All in all it is the easyness of using the program at first which makes it possible to use it for beginners and also later on for real research. We can make Citavi as required for our students without making them troubles - it is the opposite. Often students discover that they get more time concentrating on the content and do not have to think about citation rules, e.g. > > **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. Often it could be discovered that they have been built in already when asking the support people. So, there is no speacial feature which could be presented here. > > By using a literature program you want to collect knowledge and want to share it. Working together in a team can be done now with the cloud version very easily without boundaries. Making comments, notes and using the citations for the resulting article can be done quickly and efficiently. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ae/software/1014629/citavi?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ae/software/1014629/citavi) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | ----- ## Structured Data