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Summerfest 2025 — the festival of great artisinal software is back

We are pleased to participate in this year’s Summerfest 2025, the festival of artisanal software. Many companies have come together to offer great deals on hand-crafted software from small, dedicated teams who care about their product. Many of these applications are tools for academics and writers, and work extremely well with Bookends, such as Mellel, Tinderbox, Nisus Writer Pro, Scrivener, BBEdit, and Hookmark. Others are just great apps. There are many "grab bag" bundles, but Summerfest 2025 is different: top-tier tools for professionals, direct from the workshop.

There is almost certainly something you'll like. See for yourself.

Please note that the Bookends discount only applies to new licenses.

Scan Documents with Mellel Mobile

Write, cite, and produce publication-ready documents. Anywhere.

Bookends is a leading reference manager on the Mac, able to work with your word processor to create citations and bibliographies that meet the most exacting publication requirements. Mellel is the ultimate Mac-based writing tool for academics, technical writers, scholars, and students. For years, these two apps have cooperated to provide the most flexible and reliable academic writing platform on the Mac.

Unfortunately, support for academic writing with integrated citation management has been limited to traditional computers. Until now. Mellel Software and Sonny Software are pleased to announce that it is possible, for the first time, to create polished and publication-ready documents entirely on the iPad with Bookends for iOS and Mellel Mobile. See the entire process in action.

Mellel Mobile and Bookends interact seamlessly. Without leaving Mellel you can search your Bookends library for references, insert temporary citations, and scan the document to create final formatted citations and a bibliographies.

And because Bookends for iOS and Mellel Mobile sync with their Mac counterparts, you can move between platforms without missing a beat.

The Mellel/Bookends combination finally brings full-featured academic writing to the iPad.

Bookends for iOS and Mellel Mobile are available separately on the App Store. Citation management integration requires in-app purchases of Mellel Premium and Bookends Premium subscriptions.

Charity

Ukrainie's struggle against Russia

Sonny Software supports the Ukrainian people in their struggle against the Russian invaders. Mark Bernstein, the creator of Tinderbox, has created an effort to fund pizza delivery to families with children in Kharkiv living under assault. It's a small but worthwhile gesture that directly touches innocents trapped in a horrible situation. We are happy to do our own little bit in support.