Papers by ReadCube - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Papers by ReadCube is the simplest way to read, manage and discover research literature. Papers on your iPhone and iPad are the perfect companions to the Papers desktop software, enabling you to access your papers anywhere – read on the go, organize your library, and annotate PDFs with notes and highlights.

Enhanced PDF:
• Tap-able inline citations, reference lists, and author names so you can quickly find cited articles and related information
• Supplements are automatically attached where available
• Fullscreen or double-page PDF viewing plus multi-touch zoom/navigation for an optimal reading experience
• Multi-color highlighting and note taking tools

Easily find new papers:
• Search the Papers databases within the app
• Quickly download new articles with a single tap when you’re on campus or with your institutional proxy
• Import directly from Safari, email attachments, and other apps
• In your preferred browser, use any search engine to find article PDFs
• Use the “Open In…” option from the browser or any app to add PDFs to your Papers library
• Metadata is automatically resolved - no more guessing with cryptic file names

Personalized Recommendations:
• Discover relevant new papers based on your library or lists – you’ll never miss another important paper again!

Stay organized:
• Create custom lists and sort articles into one or multiple lists
• Quickly search your entire library (and all annotations)
• Add any number of #tags to further customize your library organization
• Sync everything – papers, notes, highlights – between the Papers desktop and web apps or your other mobile devices

Simplify your research life – try Papers for free on your iPhone, iPad, and computer.

We love feedback from our users - please email [email protected] with any suggestions or issues. Thanks for using Papers!

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3.77 out of 5

61 ratings in United Kingdom

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aye no bad

annotation is a bit finnicky with the apple pencil, not the nicest experience. as a literature manager is ok.

Great product

I used this for my dissertation and found the functionality incredibly helpful. Have recommended this to other students.

Fantastic app

Perfect!… simply perfect!

Unethical company

They made perfectly working Papers 3 unavailable on App Store to push users to their other app to make money. Avoid all cost

App is incredibly slow, often unresponsive

After the v3 update this app has become very, very slow. Swiping between pages can take several seconds, even with small PDFs. At this point I have little trust that this will be settled soon, given the general sluggishness of ReadCube in fixing issues.

Serious UX issues

Major love given to this app recently and am happy to amend my previous review. All of the UX issue I previously stated have been fixed and this feels more inline with the web and desktop app (although it would be super useful to have the annotation functionality of the web app working on mobile browsers. Finding the perfect reference manager is a bit of a white whale. For me Papers is still the best. I’d still prefer a native Mac app instead of a wrapped web app but I can live with it. Awesome work on this update. Amended review (previously 2 stars) If this app is intended to convince people to buy into the subscription model of ReadCube from Papers it need a complete UX overhaul. It’s fairly obvious this app gets little attention and there are some real experience issues. All elements are far too small for a modern mobile screen. The library is accessed from an old fashioned sidebar drawer with a tiny drag tab by way of a swipe gesture. The problem is that the swipe gesture is also used for all the element inside and outside of the drawer. A swipe to close the drawer I end up editing a folder in my library. A swipe when the drawer is closed and you activate the multi-select. Select one of these items and I’m a small finger movement from deleting an item. I want to like this as at some point Papers3 will become legacy but as a professional UX designer I am worried at how poorly thought out this app is.

Not ready. Really annoying

If you use Papers3, DO NOT upgrade or change your setup to this service. The apps are NOT ready. Papers3 works and works fine, much better than these apps. The desktop app is so buggy that is driving me mad, and unfortunately I don’t have the time to move all my papers database back to Papera3 (and I already paid for this subscription). I’ve left several tickets explaining all the bugs in their website. They respond and they are polite, but they don’t tell me when the new version could be available (hopefully fixing all the bugs) and don’t offer any solution. So, be aware.

Many missing features

In particular, not being able to annotate papers in shared libraries is a real deal-breaker.

Good library manager needs CWYW

Enough said. They greatly increased the stability and syncing reliability, but for it to be actually useful I would need to actually insert a citation into a Word document. And if it is just being able to copy/paste a ref field that I can resolve later on desktop word...

Don’t use

Another iPad application that the desktop application functions only when you give them your credit card. Why the heck someone would want that? Rubbish...

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