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For students & researchers

Stop losing the citation you copied an hour ago

Research is mostly the act of moving thoughts from someone else's page to your own. Dozens of browser tabs, at least as many copied excerpts, and half of them lose their source the moment you paste them somewhere else. SnipTray runs quietly while you read, captures every quote and citation along with where it came from, and gives you back a working bibliography in minutes.

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Section 1

Capture happens while you read

Every quote, citation, URL, and statistic you copy is captured automatically along with the source app and (where the app exposes it) the URL of the page. You do not need to think about saving — just keep reading. When the literature review is due in five days and you have 200 clips waiting, they are all still there.

Section 2

Rebuild your bibliography in minutes

Open the tray and search by author name, keyword, or domain. Filter by source app to get only browser quotes, or only your own jottings from Notes. Pin the keepers to a "Thesis chapter 3" pinboard and you have a sourced reading list ready to drop into your reference manager.

Section 3

Read on iPad, write on Mac

SnipTray syncs through iCloud, so reading PDFs in GoodReader or PDF Expert on the iPad in the morning and writing the paper on your Mac in the afternoon is one workflow. Every quote you highlighted-and-copied on the iPad is in your tray on the Mac.

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Affordable for students

The free tier on Mac keeps your last 25 clips forever — enough for most week-long assignments. Pro is $2.99/month or $24.99/year for unlimited history and iCloud sync across all your Apple devices, with students at verified .edu addresses getting 50% off any plan. Email hello@sniptray.com from your .edu and we will set you up.

The outcome

A research workflow that does not depend on having 80 tabs open.

  • Auto-tracks source app and URL for every clip
  • Search by keyword, author, or domain
  • Sync between iPad (read) and Mac (write)
  • Free tier covers most students; Pro is $2.99/mo (or $24.99/yr — save 30%)

Students & researchers FAQ

Common questions

Is SnipTray useful for academic research?
Yes. SnipTray captures every quote, citation, and URL you copy along with its source app, lets you search across your entire history, and syncs between iPad (where you read) and Mac (where you write). It is the bookkeeping layer that turns 80 open tabs into a working bibliography.
Does SnipTray track source URLs for academic citations?
Yes — where the source app exposes URLs (Safari, Chrome, Edge, Arc, and most PDF readers), SnipTray records the source URL alongside each clip. Combined with source-app filtering, you can rebuild a bibliography even from clips you copied weeks ago.
Do students get a discount on SnipTray?
Yes. Students with a verified .edu email get 50% off any SnipTray plan. Email hello@sniptray.com from your .edu address and we will set you up. The free tier (last 25 clips on one Mac, forever) is enough for many week-long assignments at no cost.

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