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KBibTeX

BibTeX editor by KDE to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

KBibTeX is a reference manager, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: PDF export.

File formats mentioned: XML, PDF and RTF.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “KBibTeX is a reference management application which can be used to collect TeX/LaTeX bibliographies and export them in various formats.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Import data in various bibliography file formats such as BibTeX, RIS and ISI (requires bibutils) and export data to PDF (requires pdflatex), PostScript (requires latex), RTF (requires latex2rtf), and HTML.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

KBibTeX is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

KBibTeX is a reference management application which can be used to collect TeX/LaTeX bibliographies and export them in various formats. KBibTeX can do the following things: Preview bibliography entries in various formats (Source (BibTeX), Source (RIS), Wikipedia, standard (XML/XSLT), fancy (XML/XSLT), and abstract-only (XML/XSLT)). Additional preview styles become available when bibtex2html is installed. Import data in various bibliography file formats such as BibTeX, RIS and ISI (requires bibutils) and export data to PDF (requires pdflatex), PostScript (requires latex), RTF (requires latex2rtf), and HTML. Search for the bibliography entries data in online databases (e.g. Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE, arXiv, etc.) Preview local or remote (online) resources, e.g. PDF files, linked in the BibTEX entry. Find and merge duplicate entries in bibliography. Integrate your bibliographies with LaTeX editors such as Kile and LyX. Import your Zotero library.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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