Benthic 1.1.9

One field for checking, finding and fetching sources, and new checks taken from a seminar on academic writing.

• One field for everything. Check, Find sources and Download are now one view. Paste a reference list, DOIs, a statement from your paper or a search string, or drop a whole paper: Benthic recognises what it is and highlights the matching button, and the other two stay one click away. A paragraph is searched sentence by sentence, and a database search string such as "market segmentation" AND churn goes to OpenAlex as written.
• Search log. Every search keeps its date, database, exact search string, number of results and the works you kept, exported per project for the methods section.
• Cited by. For a confirmed source, Benthic lists newer works that cite it, most cited first: the forward half of the snowball method.
• Structure of a paper. A thesis check now points out runs of paragraphs that each retell a single source, long paragraphs whose only citation comes at the very end and sources that first appear in the conclusion, and it shows the research question next to the opening of the conclusion. These are hints with a location, never a score.
• Translated borrowing. Sentences written in another language than their source can be translated on your Mac (macOS 15 or later) and compared with the source, so a sentence translated word for word without quotation marks shows up too.
• Source matrix. Each project exports a spreadsheet with authors, year, title, journal, DOI and verdict filled in, plus empty columns for the source's research question, theory, method, key finding, limitations and its use for your own question.
• Source types and course rules. The list health shows the mix of journal articles, books, preprints, reports and web pages. A house-rules file can now carry course rules: a minimum number of sources, source types the course does not allow and a note from the lecturer.
• More books found. After Open Library and the German National Library, Benthic asks the union catalogues of the hbz (lobid) and of GBV and SWB (K10plus), by title and year first, so the right edition of a textbook comes up.

Download the DMG below or from https://benthic.isoglu.com/download/. Benthic 1.0.1 to 1.1.8 offer this update inside the app (Update now); from 1.1.2 on, the app installs only updates signed with the Benthic release key. If you installed Benthic 1.2.0 on 21 October 2026, download 1.1.9 once from the website: 1.2.0 does not offer a lower version number. Benthic is free and not notarised by Apple, so a new installation needs one approval on first launch in System Settings › Privacy & Security (Open Anyway). Benthic.mcpb adds Benthic to Claude Desktop. benthic-zotero-1.1.9.xpi is the Zotero plug-in: in Zotero 7 or 8, open Tools › Plugins and choose Install Plugin From File.