RevMan vs Sysrev
RevMan
cochrane.orgSysrev
sysrev.comSide by side
| Figure | RevMan | Sysrev |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | £6.67/mo | $50/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 11 | 4 |
| Spec score · Systematic Review Software | 8.7 (#3) | 8.4 (#4) |
| Spec score · Literature Review Software | 8.7 (#3) | 8.4 (#5) |
| API | Cochrane documents Review Document, ReviewDB and Group APIs, including a REST ReviewDB endpoint at api.cochrane.org. | Premium and Enterprise accounts receive API tokens for a REST API described by an OpenAPI specification with an interactive web interface. |
| Integrations | RevMan can import study data and references from Covidence, and RIS reference imports can use data from Crossref, PubMed, or CRS. | External records can be imported through RIS or BibTeX files, and Zotero-compatible files can be handled through the Zotero translator. |
| Intended users | RevMan supports diagnostic test accuracy, intervention, methodology, overview, prognosis, qualitative, and flexible review types. | The maker describes Sysrev as suitable for researchers conducting systematic, scoping, and rapid reviews, including collaborative institutional teams. |
| Purpose | RevMan is Cochrane’s software for producing transparent systematic reviews, guiding authors from structured data entry and analysis through result visualization. | Sysrev is a platform for data curation and systematic evidence review. |
| Security | Cochrane states that RevMan Web is GDPR compliant, hosted on AWS with SOC 2 Type 2 controls, uses 256-bit SSL, encryption at rest, OIDC single sign-on, permission separation, monitoring and daily backups. | Sysrev says customer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and AWS Key Management Service customer-managed keys. |
| Support | Cochrane directs users to its Support Team and provides how-to articles, screencasts and release notes. | Users can submit an in-project issue report or email [email protected]. |
| What it does | RevMan is Cochrane software for planning, writing, analyzing and reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses. | Sysrev is a web application for collaborative and automated document review and structured data extraction. |
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
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.