The best-graded Zotero plugins for each job

1. A+
   Bionic for Zotero

   Shows PDFs in the Zotero reader in bionic reading style, with the first letters of each word in bold.

   Zotero 8–10 · 65,507 downloads · Active
2. A+
   Zotero Focused Mode

   Toggles a distraction-free reading mode that hides the tab bar, annotation toolbar, sidebars and context pane and enters fullscreen.

   Zotero 7–10 · 8,387 downloads · Active
3. A+
   Reference Linker

   Highlights bibliography entries in the PDF reader whose papers are already in your library and opens the PDF or selects the item when clicked.

   Zotero 9–10 · 2,506 downloads · Active
4. A+
   Margin Comments

   Shows highlight comments and standalone notes as editable cards in the left or right margin of the PDF page, joined to the annotation by a leader line.

   Zotero 9–10 · 1,606 downloads · Active
5. A+
   Highlight color descriptions

   Adds your own text labels, such as Important or Disagree, to highlight colours.

   Zotero 8–10 · 819 downloads · Active

1. A+
   Notero

   Syncs items from chosen Zotero collections into a Notion database, one page per item with its metadata, and optionally its notes and annotations.

   Zotero 10 · 1.08M downloads · Active
2. A+
   zotxt

   Exposes your Zotero library to plain-text tools through a local API.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 135,437 downloads · Active
3. A+
   ODF Scan for Zotero

   Converts plain-text citation markers in ODT and DOCX files into live Zotero citations, and back.

   Zotero 7–10 · 60,519 downloads · Active
4. A+
   Zotero-Trilium

   Exports items and notes to a Trilium Notes server: right-click an item to send its reference and library links, or export a note built from PDF annotations.

   Zotero 7–10 · 3,392 downloads · Slowing down
5. A+
   SideMark for Zotero

   Reads and edits Markdown notes linked to items in the item pane and PDF reader sidebar, with GFM tables, KaTeX, Mermaid and Obsidian links.

   Zotero 7–10 · 305 downloads · Active

1. A+
   Autotag

   Suggests and adds tags to selected items using an LLM, with a choice of what item information and full text to send.

   Zotero 7–10 · 1,018 downloads · Active
2. A+
   Zotero AI Assistant

   Summarises a paper from the right-click menu by extracting the PDF text and sending it to DeepSeek.

   Zotero 7–10 · 845 downloads · Active
3. A+
   Zotero Glossary

   Shows a Term Lookup button beside text you select in the reader.

   Zotero 7–10 · 521 downloads · Active
4. A+
   PaperFlow

   A Zotero reader sidebar that summarises and translates papers into Korean with Gemini, then answers questions about them in a chat.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 257 downloads · Active
5. A+
   Zot CLI Bridge

   Exposes Find Full Text, attachment renaming and local file import over Zotero's local HTTP server for the companion zot command-line tool.

   Zotero 8–10 · 107 downloads · Active

1. A+
   PDF Translate

   Shows a translate button when you select text in the PDF or EPUB reader and opens a floating translation card beside it.

   Zotero 7–10 · 2,661 downloads · Active
2. A+
   Zotero 标题翻译

   Translates item titles and abstracts into Chinese and shows them in an item list column and the info sidebar, leaving the original fields unchanged.

   Zotero 9–10 · 1,957 downloads · Active
3. A+
   arxiv2zh

   Translates arXiv papers into Chinese through the hjfy.top service and saves the translated PDF to the item.

   Zotero 7–10 · 767 downloads · Active
4. A+
   Translation-Notebook

   Translates selected text in the reader: single words go to a dictionary, longer text to an AI model.

   Zotero 7–10 · 635 downloads · Active
5. A+
   Zotero Bilingual PDF

   Batch-translates English papers into side-by-side English and Chinese PDFs and saves them as child attachments.

   Zotero 9–10 · 93 downloads · Active

1. A+
   Zoplicate

   Catches duplicates the moment you import and asks whether to keep the new copy, the old one or both, then merges without losing attachments or notes.

   Zotero 9–10 · 1.02M downloads · Active
2. A+
   Daily Folder For Zotero

   Adds a toolbar calendar button for creating and opening daily collections under a root Daily Folder, arranged as year, month and day.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 2,204 downloads · Slowing down
3. A+
   Numify

   Adds hierarchical numeric prefixes such as 1, 1.1 and 1.1.1 to collection names and keeps them in step when you create, rename or delete collections.

   Zotero 7–10 · 1,442 downloads · Active
4. A+
   Zotero Duplicate Cleaner

   Scans your library for duplicate items, byte-identical duplicate PDFs, duplicate notes, orphan PDFs and broken attachments, then lets you review and clear them.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 947 downloads · Active
5. A+
   Zotero Tag Sort

   Adds a sort menu to the tag selector for ordering tags by date added, alphabetically or by name length, in either direction.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 468 downloads · Active

1. A+
   Google Scholar Citation Count

   Fetches citation counts from Google Scholar for selected items or collections and writes them to the Extra field.

   Zotero 10 · 122,397 downloads · Active
2. A+
   Add Items from Text

   Pastes unstructured text containing references into a dialog, uses an AI model to extract them, and imports the ones you pick into your collection.

   Zotero 7–10 · 3,021 downloads · Active
3. A+
   Zotero Title Manager

   Changes the titles of selected items to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, Title Case or headline-style capitalisation.

   Zotero 10 · 2,973 downloads · Active
4. A+
   PDFerret for Zotero

   Downloads PDFs for items with a DOI from configurable providers, with Sci-Hub and Anna's Archive built in and custom providers by URL template.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 2,893 downloads · Active
5. A+
   DOI Manager

   Looks up DOIs and shortDOIs for selected items through the Crossref API and checks that stored DOIs are valid.

   Zotero 10 · 898 downloads · Active

1. A+
   Zutilo Utility for Zotero

   Adds extra editing commands to Zotero through a right-click submenu and keyboard shortcuts.

   Zotero 8–10 · 409,303 downloads · Active
2. A+
   Zotero Better Authors

   Adds item list columns for the first author, the last author, and a customisable authors list.

   Zotero 7–10 · 152,770 downloads · Active
3. A+
   Dual Title

   Shows a translated title or short remark as a second line under each title in the item list.

   Zotero 7–10 · 1,808 downloads · Active
4. A+
   DOI Column

   Adds a DOI column to Zotero's items list, so you can read DOIs down a list without opening each item.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 913 downloads · Active
5. A+
   窑变

   Applies one of 36 colour themes to both the reader and the library interface, with a light and dark version of each.

   Zotero 7–10 · 516 downloads · Active

1. A+
   RapidOCR for Zotero

   Runs OCR on scanned PDFs inside Zotero using the bundled RapidOCR engine and saves a searchable copy as a separate [OCR] attachment.

   Zotero 9–10 · 1,555 downloads · Active
2. A+
   Zotero GitHub Sync

   Backs up your whole library to a GitHub repository, public or private.

   Zotero 7–10 · 128 downloads · Active
3. A+
   ZotGit

   Moves or copies imported attachments into a folder you choose and links them.

   Zotero 7–10 · 117 downloads · Active
4. A+
   Zotero PDF Transfer

   Sends the PDF attachments of selected items to a working folder, then returns the edited ones to Zotero in place.

   Zotero 7–10, 11 beta · 106 downloads · Active
5. A+
   Zotero Flat Export

   Exports a collection and its subcollections into one flat folder from the collection right-click menu.

   Zotero 7–10 · 86 downloads · Active

How we pick them

From the plugins we list, we take those that work with Zotero 10, are graded B or better, and have at least 50 downloads, which leaves out days-old experiments. A better grade comes first. Within a grade, more downloads come first. Each plugin appears only under its main job. AI decides each plugin's jobs from its description, so a few may sit under a job you wouldn't expect. Grades come from a check of each plugin's code, as described in How we grade.