CitApp — Save Sources

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Save sources for your essays and research in one click — no copy-pasting, no formatting headaches.

CitApp automatically extracts the title, author, date and publisher from any web page or PDF, then formats a ready-to-use citation for you. Just open the page, click the CitApp icon, and hit Save source. That's it.

What CitApp does
📌 One-click saving Click the extension icon on any web page, article or online PDF. CitApp reads the page metadata and saves the source directly to your CitApp project — no forms to fill in.

📄 Works with PDFs — even paywalled ones CitApp detects PDF files automatically, including PDFs behind university logins that a normal web scraper can't reach. The file is parsed in your browser (where you're already logged in) and uploaded securely.

✏️ Harvard, APA and MLA citations Every saved source gets a formatted in-text citation ready to copy. Switch between Harvard, APA and MLA at any time inside the CitApp dashboard.

🔍 Auto-extraction Title, author, publication date, journal, publisher and DOI are read from the page's metadata and structured data. For tricky pages, CitApp uses AI to fill in what's missing.

📂 Organised by project Sources land in your Unsorted sources and can be dragged into subject folders (History essay, Biology lab report, etc.) inside CitApp.

🖱️ Right-click to save a selection Select any text on a page, right-click, and choose Save selection to CitApp to capture a specific quote or passage along with the page's URL.

How it works
Go to any web page or open a PDF in your browser
Click the CitApp icon in the toolbar
Hit Save source
The source appears in your CitApp dashboard, citation ready to copy
Sign in once — CitApp stays logged in automatically.

Free plan
3 browser-extension saves per week (unlimited when adding sources by pasting a URL directly in the app)
Full access to Harvard, APA and MLA citations
Unlimited projects and categories
Pro plan — unlimited everything
Upgrade at citapp.org/pris for unlimited browser saves, PDF parsing, and the AI "Understand source" feature.

Privacy
CitApp only accesses the URL and page content of pages you explicitly save. No browsing history is collected. No data is sold. Full privacy policy: https://citapp.org/privacy