Benthic 1.2.1

Find the passage in your own PDFs that backs a sentence, and see how a LaTeX thesis cites its sources.

• Evidence in your own PDFs. A claim without a citation in the writing signals now has "Search own PDFs": Benthic looks through the PDFs already downloaded for this check and shows the passage that comes closest, with its page and the words that matched. Below the threshold it says nothing rather than pointing at a source that does not carry the claim.
• LaTeX citation graph. A LaTeX check now draws the keys of your .bib next to the main file, coloured by verdict: cited and confirmed, cited but not confirmed, missing from the .bib, never cited. A click jumps to the source in the report.
• What a quotation shares. Where a quotation is close but not identical, "In the source:" now marks the words it shares with the original, so the difference is visible instead of described.
• The Word file stays. An uploaded .docx is kept with the run, so the annotated Word document can be downloaded again later, not only while the window is open. The last 25 files are kept.
• Cleaner .bib, better imports. The cleaned .bib reads the entry type from the entry itself, fills missing fields from the raw entry and lists the fields that disagree with the record; BibTeX recognises inbook, thesis, proceedings, booklet, manual and other types it used to skip; EndNote XML finds authors nested under contributors.
• For AI assistants. Over MCP a check now reports field discrepancies, references that mix real authors with an invented title, secondary citations and claims without a citation; two new tools export the cleaned .bib and the annotated Word document.

Download the DMG below or from https://benthic.isoglu.com/download/. Benthic 1.0.1 to 1.1.9 offer this update inside the app (Update now); from 1.1.2 on, the app installs only updates signed with the Benthic release key. An installation of Benthic 1.2.0 (21 October 2026) now offers this release itself: until now it ignored every 1.1.x, because 1.1.9 sorts below 1.2.0. 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-1.2.1.xpi is the Zotero plug-in: in Zotero 7 or 8, open Tools › Plugins and choose Install Plugin From File.