7 Bibliography And Citation App Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 19th, 2023

Start A Bibliography And Citation App

Bibliography and Citation tools create citations, reference lists, and bibliographies. Teachers, students and web content writers are some of the common users of the bibliography and citation apps.

The tools help users complete and improve bibliographic data by comparing it with curated online catalogues like Google Scholar, springer or MathSciNet. The citation tools are for users who value simplicity, privacy and speed when it comes to referencing.

With scholars and researchers wanting to do more within their usual working day, the demand for bibliography and citation apps will keep rising.

Therefore, if you are familiar with App development and are interested in starting an app based business idea, the citation and bibliography applications will be a great idea.

Here are some real life success stories of starting a bibliography and citation app:

1. Citationsy ($6K/year)

Cenk Özbakır founded Citationsy in 2017 after the online citation generator he had been using, RefMe, was shut down. With over 200,000 users as of February 2020, Citationsy has grown through word-of-mouth and SEO, offering users a simple, fast, and privacy-focused way to create bibliographies and references.

How much they make: $6K/year
Current team size: 1

How I Developed A $500/Month App To Create Citations And Bibliographies

Citationsy is an online referencing generator launched in 2017 that grew from nothing to over 200,000 users as of February 2020, all through word-of-mouth and SEO, and is making a profit every month without spending any money on marketing or Google ads with a customer acquisition cost that is essentially zero.

About

Cenk started Citationsy almost 7 years ago

Revenue

Cenk grew the business to $500/month

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4. EasyBib®: Free Bibliography Generator

Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 4.7M/month

5. BibMe: Free Bibliography & Citation Maker

BibMe Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 1.14M/month

So... can you actually make money with a bibliography and citation app?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

Start Now

7. MyBib

Automatically create bibliographies, references, and citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and over 8,000 more styles with our totally free and no-ads citation generator.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 2.65M/month