Parsifal vs RevMan
Parsifal
parsifal.com.brRevMan
cochrane.orgSide by side
| Figure | Parsifal | RevMan |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | £6.67/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 11 |
| Spec score · Systematic Review Software | 7.9 (#15) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Collaboration | Review owners can add co-authors who can edit the protocol, screen articles, and generate content, and can create a public read-only link. | Authors can edit different review fields concurrently and see which collaborators are currently working in a review. |
| Integrations | The site lists ASReview, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Unpaywall, and OA Button among its integrations or connected services. | RevMan can import study data and references from Covidence, and RIS reference imports can use data from Crossref, PubMed, or CRS. |
| Intended users | Parsifal is aimed at postgraduate researchers, professors, and research teams, with use cases including software engineering, health, and education. | RevMan supports diagnostic test accuracy, intervention, methodology, overview, prognosis, qualitative, and flexible review types. |
| Purpose | Parsifal is a web platform for planning, conducting, and reporting systematic literature reviews using the Kitchenham and Charters methodology. | RevMan is Cochrane’s software for producing transparent systematic reviews, guiding authors from structured data entry and analysis through result visualization. |
| Support | The site provides a support link and a link for reporting problems. | Cochrane directs users to its Support Team and provides how-to articles, screencasts and release notes. |
Plans
RevMan
- Cochrane author accessFree
- Cochrane author accessFree
- Practice reviewFree
- Individual student annual subscription£80 a year
- Student£80 a year
- Academic£100 a year
- Individual academic annual subscription£100 a year
- Individual standard annual subscription£130 a year
- Standard rate£130 a year
- OrganizationPriced on request
In their own words
Parsifal
Parsifal is a web tool for planning, conducting and reporting systematic literature reviews. Its planning process covers objectives, PICOC, research questions, keywords, search strings, selection criteria, quality questions and data extraction forms. Researchers can import BibTeX records from Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE, ACM and PubMed, or use API imports. The platform supports article screening against inclusion and exclusion criteria, duplicate detection, quality assessment and snowballing through references and citations. Review owners can invite co-authors to edit protocols, screen articles and generate content, or share a public read-only link. Parsifal can create PRISMA diagrams and export review data to Excel or CSV, with papers in Word, LaTeX or PDF. It lists more than 45 community templates across 12 domains and 6 languages, and connections to services including ASReview, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar. Its optional AI assistant can help with screening, assessment, extraction and paper sections, but requires the user's Anthropic or OpenAI API key; AI usage is billed directly by the AI provider. Imported articles, screening decisions and extraction data are stored in the user's account database.
RevMan
RevMan is Cochrane’s software for building systematic reviews, from structured data entry and analysis to presenting results. It supports diagnostic test accuracy, intervention, methodology, overview, prognosis, qualitative, and flexible review types. Authors can edit separate parts of a review at the same time and see who else is working on it. Analysis options include pairwise meta-analyses, sensitivity and subgroup analyses, and fixed-effects, random-effects, Mantel-Haenszel, and inverse-variance models. Built-in outputs include forest, SROC, and funnel plots, risk-of-bias assessments, and PRISMA flow diagrams. Authors can work from ready-made or custom templates and structured headings with Cochrane methodological guidance. RevMan imports study data and references from Covidence, and RIS reference imports can draw on Crossref, PubMed, or CRS. A free practice review is deleted after 30 days and permits one person, with no data export. Free access is also available to authors working on Cochrane Reviews. Individual annual plans are £80 a year for eligible students, £100 a year for eligible academics, and £130 a year for standard subscriptions; VAT applies in the EU and UK.