The essential software for academic and research work

  • PDF management, OCR, reading, annotation
  • Unique tools to understand and discover
  • Cloud sync, cite, and much much more
  • Free

Qiqqa is Research Management Software

Trusted by academia and industry for all five stages of the knowledge lifecycle.

Add all your papers, and it helps you do all the rest, quicker.




1 Organize

Reference and document management done right. Import all your PDFs and they're OCRed, tags auto-extracted, and Qiqqa helps you quickly populate any missing metadata.

You'll love the full-text search, duplicate paper detection, and much more. Read on »

2 Discover

Imagine knowing exactly what paper to focus on next.

Qiqqa reveals connections about, and between papers and concepts in a totally unique way.

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3 Review and Understand

Top-notch built-in PDF reader with annotating and highlighting, automated jump links, tablet sync, and so much more.

Printable annotation summary reports for revision, and create mindmaps of your thoughts. It's all here »

4 Collaborate

Sync to the private cloud with unlimited storage, share library documents, metadata, and notes in private with selected friends or colleagues.

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5 Create

Don't waste time hunting for references or formatting citations when your mind should be focussed on producing your best work.

Qiqqa connects to Word™ to make citing and bibliographies a breeze. More info »




Qiqqa is free, and available now.


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Proud winners of prestigious awards!

Winner of Cambridge Entrepeneurs 2011
Winner of Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club Award 2011
Winner of Cambridge Wireless Startups Competition 2011





Mohit Agrawal (Princeton)
"#qiqqa is absolutely amazing. Who knew that thesis work could be this much fun?"

University Ninja (Website)
"Qiqqa Makes Research Fun and Easy. If there is one Swiss army knife that every college student needs, this one is it. Qiqqa, a research tool, makes writing papers a breeze."
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Mete Akcaoglu (Michigan State).
"awesome FREE pdf reader/annotator! There is an annotation generator, built-in!!!"

Britta Bohlinger (Open University)
"PDF handling finally under control: annotating, converting into RTF, preview in library. Love QIQQA"

Victoria Burton (Hampton)
"Qiqqa - excellent software for getting your research/academic work done better"

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