Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires OS X 10.10 or higher.

Features

  • Viewing PDFs
  • Adding and editing notes
  • Highlighting important text, including one-swipe highlight modes
  • Making "snapshots" for easy reference
  • Navigation using table of contents or thumbnails, with visual history
  • View all your notes and highlights
  • Convenient reading in full screen
  • Giving powerful presentations, with built-in transitions
  • Handy preview of internal links
  • Focus using a reading bar
  • Magnification tool
  • Smart cropping tools
  • Extensive AppleScript support
  • Bookmarks
  • Saving passwords in Keychain
  • Export notes as text
  • Automatic download of remote PDFs
  • Support for Apple Remote Control
  • Interaction with LaTeX, SyncTeX, and PDFSync
  • Integration with BibDesk and other third party applications
  • Spotlight support
  • Highly customizable
  • And much more...

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License

BSD License

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User Reviews

  • Very useful and delicate app!
  • Excellent PDF reader, really well done and with sound scripting support (which is much appreciated), thank you!
  • Irritated by Adobe Reader and unable to afford the full Adober suite anymore, I saw Skim recommended for academics like me who have to review lots of PDFs. Great for that purpose! No complaints...praise to the coders!
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  • I LOVE Skim, but version 1.6.9 has a bug: it places an annoying black rectangle over the part of page containing an error, which remains there after correcting and after quitting Skim. So I re-installed 1.6.8 and all is well! Thank you for your (usually faultless) work! Much appreciated.
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Operating Systems

Mac

Languages

French, Dutch, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Russian

Intended Audience

Science/Research, Education

User Interface

Cocoa (MacOS X)

Programming Language

Objective C

Related Categories

Objective C Image Viewers, Objective C Scientific Engineering, Objective C PDF Software, Objective C PDF Readers, Objective C Note-Taking App

Registered

2007-03-28