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DocCite for Apple devices

DocCite for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Add your protocols, amendments, informed consent forms, and study manuals. Search them together, review the cited passage, and open the source on the Apple device in front of you.

Download on the App Store

The current app

See DocCite on Apple.

These captures use fictional demo documents.

DocCite on iPhone showing the exact Week 4 passage and its locator in a fictional protocol
The iPhone opens the cited Week 4 passage from a fictional protocol.
DocCite on iPhone showing the cited Week 4 passage with surrounding source context
Review the passage with its surrounding section on iPhone.
DocCite on iPad comparing the fictional Week 4 window in protocol versions 1.0 and 2.0
Compare both versions' Week 4 passages on iPad.
DocCite on Mac showing Before and After passages for fictional protocol visit-window changes
The Mac comparison shows the changed source wording.

What you can do

Search and verify clinical research documents on Apple.

Search across study documents

Search PDFs, scanned PDFs with OCR, DOCX, TXT, RTF, and Markdown files by keyword, phrase, or natural-language question.

Review the cited passage

Each result identifies the document and location. Open the citation to read the surrounding source language.

Compare files and copy citations

Compare two documents, add PDF highlights, save bookmarks, and copy an answer with its citations.

Keep active studies organized

Use categories, bookmarks, recents, and document properties to return to the files and passages you use most.

Add your documents

Bring study files into DocCite.

On iPhone and iPad

Choose files, share a document into DocCite from another app, or capture a document with the camera or photo library.

On Mac

Choose files in Finder or drag supported documents into DocCite.

Requirements

Review Apple requirements before installing.

  • iPhone and iPad require iOS or iPadOS 16 or later.
  • Mac requires macOS 14 or later.
  • Available in English.

What Apple Watch does

Apple Watch can send a question or note to its paired iPhone. Document import, search, and cited-answer review take place in the iPhone, iPad, or Mac app. The watch companion requires watchOS 9 or later.

DocCite Apple Watch question composer
Compose a question for the paired iPhone.

See the workflow before you install.

The product tour follows a real question from the search result to the cited source.

View the product tour