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

  • absolutely love this app so much, ive practically gotten every single feature id ever use unlike every single other pdf viewer and you say its all for free!? f***in love open source!
  • An excellent no frills app to peruse and markup pdf's. Well done! Edit: Annotations don't persist across apps.
  • excellent pdf viewer!!!
  • Good
  • Very useful and delicate app!
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Operating Systems

Mac

Languages

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

Intended Audience

Education, Science/Research

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