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🎓 Academic portfolio that boosts citations. AI generates pages, you own as Markdown. BibTeX auto-import, Jupyter, LaTeX, slides, visual block editor — free t…
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View guide →Zettlr — your one-stop publication workbench: a Markdown writing app for academics and authors, with Zotero citations, Pandoc export and a Zettelkasten soul
Zettlr is an open-source writing project by Zettlr (Zettlr/Zettlr on GitHub). It has 13,781 GitHub stars and 862 forks, is released under the GPL-3.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 15 October 2026.
Download the installer for Windows, macOS or Linux from zettlr.com — free, no account.
Point Zettlr at your Zotero library (or another CSL database) in settings, so citations autocomplete as you type.
Write in Markdown in a project folder, then export through the built-in Pandoc pipeline to PDF (via LaTeX), DOCX, HTML or slides with your template.
Deep Zotero/CSL integration: cite as you write, with the bibliography generated on export — the feature academic writers actually need.
Pandoc + LaTeX templates turn Markdown into journal-ready PDFs, Word documents and presentations.
Note IDs, tags and linking make the same app a thinking tool, not just a typewriter.
Distraction-free mode, word targets, readability stats, a table editor and a Pomodoro timer — no plugin hunt required.
Installers for all desktop platforms from the official site.
https://www.zettlr.com/downloadFor contributors, per the README (yarn-based monorepo).
git clone https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr.git
cd Zettlr
yarn install --immutableInside the app: open a file, choose Export, pick PDF/DOCX/HTML and your template — Pandoc does the typesetting.
Hendrik Erz and the Zettlr community (Zettlr/Zettlr on GitHub); development is funded by donations, not by locking features.
Yes — GPL-3.0 licensed, all features included, no premium tier.
No, but the pairing is the point for academics: any CSL-compatible database works, and Zettlr can also manage without one for non-academic writing.
Against Scrivener, Zettlr is free, Markdown-native and far stronger on citations and academic export; Scrivener counters with its corkboard and compile system for fiction. Against a plain Markdown editor, Zettlr adds the whole publication pipeline most editors leave to you.
Install from zettlr.com, open a folder as a workspace, connect Zotero if you use it, and export your first document to PDF.
🎓 Academic portfolio that boosts citations. AI generates pages, you own as Markdown. BibTeX auto-import, Jupyter, LaTeX, slides, visual block editor — free t…
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