Send diagnostic data without email • Settings › Troubleshooting › “Send diagnostic data” now sends the data straight from the app — no mail app or account needed. You get a receipt number to tell us if you are already in touch, and the data is deleted after 30 days. Also • Lasso: circle handwriting on a PDF and move it together (iPad and Mac). • You can now sign in with an email address. Even without Mendeley, a trial or a purchase also works in Rectoly on your other devices (from “Don’t use Mendeley? Continue with email” on the purchase screen). • Highlighting or underlining the same passage again removes the mark; with another color it changes the color. • The sidebar now has a close button. Fixes and improvements • Fixed handwriting looking blurry when a PDF is zoomed in (iPad). • A brief network drop is no longer shown as a sync failure: your changes stay on the device and are sent again automatically. • Reading Mode now shows the Schemes of chemistry papers as figures. • The purchase screen now says up front that the free trial never charges you automatically.

Fixes and improvements • Translation: with “Show Translated Text” on the PDF, paragraphs that contain characters such as Aβ, μM or H₂O₂ are now translated as well.

Organize your notes with AI • In Across papers, “Organize with AI” groups your sticky notes and notes in the chosen collection by topic and saves them as a research theme. It writes only the headings; every note stays as you wrote it and opens its paper at the place. Paper cards for your review table • “Paper cards…” in the library’s “…” menu writes each paper’s research question, method, data, findings and stated limitations from its own text. Every sentence carries its page, and a sentence the text does not support is dropped. The table exports as Markdown and CSV. • The cards open as a table inside Rectoly. Tap a sentence and the paper opens at the page it comes from. AI with your own API key • Run translation, Organize with AI and paper cards with your own API key for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and others — also on devices that cannot run the on-device model. Your text goes straight to the provider, and you are always asked before it is sent. In Settings › AI. Translate into Vietnamese, Ukrainian and Thai • Papers can now be translated into Vietnamese, Ukrainian and Thai as well (Thai with System translation). Choose one under Translation language. Swap the panes, move the columns • Press and hold the header of either of two PDFs side by side, or of the PDF beside Reading Mode, and move it (with a mouse, just drag) to swap left and right or top and bottom. The sidebar and the figure column move to either side the same way. The header’s Two-pane arrangement menu and VoiceOver can swap them too. Also • A research theme now ends with “Passages that may relate”: paragraphs from your library’s papers that are close to your notes. • Handwriting on the PDF can now use a “Fountain pen” (iPad). • Two PDFs opened side by side are remembered as a pair, with their sides, and come back together the next time (iPad). • With page turning set to “One page at a time” or “Horizontal”, pages now slide across as they turn. • Now runs on iOS 17.0 and later (it needed iOS 17.6 before). Fixes and improvements • Fixed a note written on a highlight in Mendeley replacing the highlight’s own text. The note now shows in the annotation list. • Fixed handwriting written or erased during a sync sometimes being undone by that sync. • Fixed a dot sometimes left where an Apple Pencil stroke begins, and made writing lighter. • Fixed formulas in Reading Mode sometimes losing large symbols such as sums, unions and roots. • Fixed extra spaces appearing in the text of highlights made on Chinese, Japanese and Korean passages.

Rectoly is the research-focused PDF reader built for Mendeley users. Your library stays in Mendeley — Rectoly makes reading and annotating on iPhone, iPad and Mac a genuine pleasure. READING MODE Academic papers are usually typeset in two columns, which makes them hard to read on a phone or in a narrow split view. Reading Mode reflows the paper into a single, clean text column — without losing the original PDF. ANNOTATE IN READING MODE Unlike other readers, Rectoly lets you highlight, underline, add sticky notes, and write with Apple Pencil — all while staying in Reading Mode. Your handwriting even scales with the text size. Filter annotations by colour and by kind. ON-DEVICE TRANSLATION Read an English paper in your own language, in Reading Mode and on the PDF page. Translation runs on this device; the paper is never sent to a translation service. Translations are saved to your Mendeley library for your other devices (you can turn this off in Settings). The app's translation model (about 2.5 GB) needs 8 GB of memory or more. Translates English papers into the app's 19 other display languages: Hindi by the system's translator (iOS 26 or later), all the rest by the app's own model. READ ALOUD Hear the text in Reading Mode, in the system voice or the VoiceOver one. SOFT DARK A paper-friendly dark mode that dims the page itself, not just the interface. WORKBENCH (iPad and Mac) Pin Figure 1 beside the text and keep reading — no more scrolling back and forth between a figure and the paragraph that cites it. RESEARCH THEMES Send a passage to a theme, with its source. Keep the theme beside the paper, or open it as a sheet. Export as Markdown or Word (.docx). ACROSS PAPERS The library column has a new Across papers tab: search the annotations, the text and your handwriting in your whole library at once. FIGURES, TABLES AND A COMPARISON TABLE Figures to PNG, tables to CSV — and one table comparing many papers' abstracts, methods and results. YOUR MANUSCRIPT BESIDE THE PAPER Open the document you are writing (.docx, .doc, .odt, .rtf, Markdown, plain text — password-protected ones too) in a column next to the paper. It re-reads the file every time you save. CITATIONS AND NOTES, OUT OF THE APP Copy with page, copy BibTeX or citation keys, and a Notes folder for Obsidian and others — with keyboard shortcuts you can change. MENDELEY SYNC Sign in with your Mendeley account and read your library directly on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Highlights and text notes are saved into the PDF and written back to Mendeley. OPEN FROM WEBDAV Open PDFs kept on a WebDAV server such as Nextcloud or your university's storage — and add them to Mendeley from there. A LIBRARY THAT STAYS OUT OF YOUR WAY - PDFs download only when you open them, saving storage - Downloaded papers work fully offline — flights, commutes, conferences, field work APPLE PENCIL, PRESERVED Handwritten notes are backed up with iCloud, kept with a version history you can restore, and exportable as JSON for long-term preservation. Your research is never locked inside Rectoly. 14-DAY FREE TRIAL → ONE-TIME PURCHASE Try every Pro feature free for 14 days. Unlock with a single one-time payment — no subscription, no recurring charges, no lock-in. Rectoly is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Mendeley Ltd. or Elsevier. A Mendeley account is required to use this app.

New • Formulas in Reading Mode: formulas inside paragraphs now appear as they do on the page, cut from the PDF itself — no more garbled symbols. They follow your text size and theme. • A cleaner first page: affiliations, e-mail addresses and received dates from the bottom of the first page no longer interrupt the abstract or introduction; they move to the endnotes. • Complete figures: figure images now include axis tick labels, axis titles and legends, so nothing is cut off in the figures list, the cards or exports. • Text size on your phone: Reading Mode's bar has a text-size button — smaller, larger and the current size in one menu. You can also pinch with two fingers. • The usage guide and the legal pages now open inside the app. • Settings names Linux among the computer versions. Fixed • Pinching to the smallest text size in Reading Mode could switch to another paper. • In full screen the page now stands centred. • Turning the page in full screen briefly shows the page number. • Opening a paper brings up the buttons more smoothly. • The guidance shown when you tap Highlight or Underline now appears every time. • On a wide iPad in landscape, buttons that fit the bar no longer hide in the "…" menu.

• Tool rail: the tools now sit in a vertical rail at the edge of the screen, so many more fit at once — on an upright iPad, all of them. The rest, and Customize toolbar, are in the rail's “…”. • Organize in Mendeley: from a theme's … › Export, tag the papers it cites with the theme's name, put them in a collection of that name, or both. The library shows the result right away. • Citation styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, IEEE, Vancouver, Nature and GB/T 7714, for Copy with citation (⌘⌥C) and for the reference list when you export a theme to Word or Markdown. • Fixes: on iPhone in portrait, the buttons at the top right of a research theme no longer look stacked on top of each other. Clearer wording throughout, with Mendeley collections called “collections” everywhere.

• Research themes to Zotero: in a theme's … › Export › Zotero note, the theme becomes a note in your personal Zotero library, headings and all, with each quote linked to its page in the PDF. • Across papers now lists the annotations you made in Zotero, even on papers not opened here, and narrows to one collection and the collections inside it. • Figures and tables in scanned PDFs now appear in the figures list, and Chinese captions such as 圖 3-1, 圖一 and 續表 are recognized. • The paper list checks Zotero for changes when you open or return to the app, and papers deleted or moved to the Trash leave the list. • Clearer explanations of the highlight tools and of research themes. • Japanese scans now read correctly on devices set to Chinese.

Easier to get started • The welcome now ends with two choices: Continue with Mendeley, or Continue without an account. The first PDF of your own now opens free, too. If signing in fails, you now see why, right where you tried. Rectoly on your computer • Rectoly also comes for Windows and Mac. Sign in with the same Mendeley account and your library and purchase come with you. Send the link to your computer from Settings › About › Rectoly for Windows and Mac.

Read, think, write — without leaving the app From reading a paper to shaping your argument and drafting the text. This is the biggest update Rectoly for Mendeley has had. Research themes • Send a passage to a theme, with its source. Keep the theme beside the paper, or open it as a sheet. • Drag a card from anywhere on it to rearrange; grab a heading and the whole section moves. Every card leads back to the paper and page it came from. • Export as Markdown or Word (.docx). Across papers • The library column has a new Across papers tab: search the annotations, the text and your handwriting in your whole library at once. • Japanese now matches on part of a word, too. Figures, tables and a comparison • Save a figure as PNG and a table as CSV — one paper at a time, or your whole library in one go. • Compare many papers' abstracts, methods, results and conclusions in one table, one row per paper. Your draft beside the paper • Open the document you are writing (.docx, .doc, .odt, .rtf, Markdown, plain text — password-protected ones too) in a column next to the paper. It re-reads the file every time you save. WebDAV • Open PDFs kept on a WebDAV server such as Nextcloud or your university's storage — and add them to Mendeley from there. Tools for reading • Read Aloud: hear the text in Reading Mode, in the system voice or the VoiceOver one. • Choose the typeface and line spacing in Reading Mode. • Filter annotations by colour and by kind. Citing and notes • Copy with the page number, and copy BibTeX or a citation key. • Touch a citation in the text to see what it refers to, with buttons to copy the reference and open the DOI. • Collect the notes on your highlights into note folders. A layout for how you use this device • On a tablet or phone, reading and thinking lead: search, Reading Mode, highlight, pen, sticky note and colour head the tool rail. On a Mac, the research theme column opens beside the paper and the writing tools come first. • Only the default places of the tools change; what you have arranged yourself stays. The switch is in Settings › General, and “Use this device’s layout” applies the defaults again. Also • Open PDFs on this device without signing in, including by drag and drop. • Choose how two panes and Reading Mode are arranged (automatic, side by side, one above the other) and drag the divider. • Remap keyboard shortcuts, use the side buttons on a mouse, and right-click menus. • Help now lives in the app: FAQ, what each icon means, hints the first time you meet a screen, and this What's New. • Rectoly runs on Apple silicon Macs (macOS 14.6 and later). Fixes and improvements • Fixed a PDF whose filename is in Japanese or another non-Latin script being added with an empty title. • The whole sample library is now free to try: highlights, sticky notes, handwriting, Reading Mode and two panes, before you buy. • Error reports and usage statistics no longer carry filenames, paper titles, URLs or email addresses. • If the diagnostics report can't be sent by mail, you can now send it from the share sheet.

Fixes and improvements • Fixed the app becoming unresponsive for a while when showing highlights in a long PDF with many links. • Sign-in is more reliable when the server is busy: the app now waits and retries by itself instead of failing. • The app now lets you know, inside the app, when a new version is available.

Search your handwriting Notes you write with Apple Pencil are now read as text on your device, so you can search them (iPadOS 27 and later). • The library search has a new Handwriting tab: find the paper and the page from a word you wrote. • Handwriting results also appear when you search inside a PDF. Tap one and the place you wrote is marked. • Vertical writing is supported too. • Reading happens only on your device and never leaves it. Turning it off in Settings deletes what was read. Also • Support for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27.

Fixes and improvements • Fixed the app closing while syncing a library that has folders. Folder contents update correctly again. • Opening a paper whose PDF is no longer on Mendeley now shows a message asking you to sync the library, instead of an error code.

From a citation to your own copy Tap a marker like [12] and see what that reference is — and whether you already have that paper. No trip to the back of the document. • A paper you have opens beside the one citing it, with your highlights and handwriting on it. • A DOI or arXiv match is shown differently from a title match. • In Reading Mode, the cited paper's PDF opens to the right, and the column you are reading stays where it is. Jump from the outline The outline now works in Reading Mode. • Tap an entry on the paper's own contents page to jump to that section. Until now only the PDF view responded. • The sidebar outline lands on the section itself, not the top of its page. Entries pointing at the same page no longer collapse onto one spot. • The heading line sits at the top of the screen when you arrive. Fixes and improvements • Fixed the first paper downloaded after a reinstall not opening the reader, leaving the sidebar unresponsive. • Fixed highlights made in Reading Mode starting a few characters before the selected text. • Other stability improvements.

Rename Paper PDF Reads the author, year and title out of a PDF and builds a filename from your format. The original file is left alone. Available from Shortcuts and the watch folder. • First paper free: Your first paper now opens without starting the trial. The trial offer appears when you enter Reading Mode, add your first highlight, or open a second paper. • What to do with new PDFs: “Only fix the name” needs no Mendeley account. It renames the files where they sit and does nothing else. • Look up online: Asks Crossref and arXiv when the PDF does not say. With this off, only the PDF itself and your own library are used. • ASCII only: For libraries shared with desktop Mendeley on Windows, or anywhere non-ASCII filenames get mangled. Japanese is not romanized — that part is left out instead. Fixes and improvements • Fixed a freeze right after launch with large libraries. • Folder sync: If you close the app midway, the next launch picks up where it left off. Fixed some folders being missed in libraries with many folders. • Other stability improvements.

A fix release: Reading Mode no longer reads some papers twice, sign-in can't get stuck, and one failing paper no longer pauses annotation sync for the rest. • Reading Mode: on some publisher PDFs that carry an older text layer underneath the page, every paragraph appeared twice. Those duplicate lines are now removed. • Sign-in: swiping the sign-in sheet away no longer leaves setup spinning. If the sign-in page fails to load, you now get a message and a Retry button. • Annotation sync: the retry budget is counted per paper, so a paper that keeps failing no longer pauses automatic re-sending for other papers. • Diagnostics: log files are stored where iOS won't purge them, so a diagnostic report no longer arrives without its logs.

Reading position now follows you across devices, figures keep their colours in dark mode, and the 2-screen split is easier to use. • Reading position: the page you were on rides in the same sync file as your handwriting, so another device opens where you left off — even without iCloud. • Figures keep their colours in dark mode: charts and diagrams are no longer inverted with the page. • 2-screen split: opening a paper from the library replaces only the side you had selected; the other side stays put. • Added PDFs open right away: no second download after the upload. • Rectangle highlights now work in Reading Mode too. • Plus: a guard against annotations landing on the wrong paper when you switch quickly, more reliable downloads, and small fixes.

This update includes an important fix for handwriting sync. • Important fix: handwriting cloud sync could fail to recognize its own sync files, so ink did not appear on other devices and sync files kept piling up. • Reading Mode and the 2-screen split are now part of the 14-day free trial and Rectoly Pro (one-time purchase). If you started your trial before this update, both stay free for you.

- You can now import PDFs directly from other apps (e.g. Safari downloads or the Files app) via "Open in" - Reading Mode: footnotes no longer interrupt the body text — they are now collected at the end as endnotes - Fixed an unnatural gap in paragraphs that continue across a page break - Improved detection of headings, table of contents, and figures/tables in Japanese papers - Fixed sharing (e.g. diagnostics data) sometimes failing on the first attempt

This update improves data export and fixes a visual glitch. • Data export: the paper picker now shows only papers that have something to export. • Fixed the count bubble on a stacked sticky-note badge being clipped after opening its menu.

• Fixed an issue where sticky note badges in Reading Mode couldn't be tapped. • Corrected the description of the handwriting sync setting — the text shown when the setting was off didn't match the actual behavior. • Reworded the Watch Folder notes to be easier to understand.

This update focuses on stability and performance. • Big-library performance: launch, sync, and scrolling stay smooth even with thousands of papers. Fixed freezes and crashes on the library screen. • Reading Mode: papers with lots of ink and annotations now open quickly and scroll smoothly. • Lighter sticky-note and figure-link overlays for smoother page navigation.

Rectoly 2.0 introduces Reading Mode — a new way to read papers. • Reading Mode: two-column academic PDFs reflow into a single, clean text column. Jump back to the original PDF anytime. • Annotate in Reading Mode: highlight, underline, and add sticky notes without leaving the reflowed view. Highlights and notes sync back to Mendeley as before. • Apple Pencil in Reading Mode: write directly on the reflowed text — your ink scales with the text size. • Workbench (iPad): pin a figure beside the text and keep reading, no more scrolling back and forth. • Split view: keep Reading Mode open next to the original page. • Outline navigation and text search across the whole paper. • Customizable reader toolbar. • Annotation history: if a sync conflict ever replaces your handwriting, restore the previous version. Plus many fixes and performance improvements.