While Mendeley does have the best PDF reader and offers a really nice iOS app and I really liked using it, in the end, I found that the way Zotero manages notes and attachments and syncs with their web server and the interface in general works for me. I decided to move my database to Zotero which has a lot going for it in terms of being open source, syncing between multiple instances and the web, it works really well for me. Recently Mendeley encrypted their database in order to make the export of the data to other systems more difficult, which is really not user-friendly. The bottom line: Each has a different set of features, and it depends on which of those features are important to you (there are several articles on line doing feature by feature comparisons so no need to go on about that). While it does not have as many features as Endnote, and I lost all of my "collections" (but easily re-created since everything is keyword), I now am happier using Mendeley as it fits my need for a fast and snappy bibliographic database and citation manager.Įach of Endnote, Mendeley, and Zotero has pros and cons, there is no "best" in this app category. So now I use Mendeley desktop for the Mac which is a contemporary 64-bit program with a cleaner interface, and much faster performance all around. EndNote development apparently is Windows focused and MacOS is just an afterthought for them, since the Mac performance issues have been widely reported over the past two years and there is no fix in sight. So I recently I moved my 2,200+ item database with many PDFs to Mendeley in under 10 minutes and the only thing I do not like is that my "Research Notes" and "Notes" got merged, however, the performance of Mendeley is MUCH FASTER than EndNote. For some reason it's still a 32-bit program (why is that?). I was using Endnote X8 and then upgraded to X9, currently running MacOS 10.13.6 on a Late 2013 MacBook Pro, and Endnote has been SLOW as a dog on my Mac. I used to recommend Endnote, but I now recommend Mendeley.
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