ReadCube Papers

Name: ReadCube Papers
Rating: 3.71064 (470 reviews)

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ReadCube Papers

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User Reviews for ReadCube Papers

Problems with hand writing and highlighting

Great start, but still has a lot of problems. First of all, writing with the Apple Pencil, or any stylus, is pretty bad. It’s ridiculous that there is no eraser function - the only way to erase is to individually tap the lines you wrote, and then click on a trash icon. There should definitely be an eraser function like all the other annotation apps out there. Second - the highlighting function keeps losing my previous highlights. I highlight a section, and keep reading. After a while, the section I just highlighted is gone and no longer there - it seems to be syncing incorrectly. Other than that, it’s a decent app that keeps your library synced in the cloud, but the whole advantage of using it on the iPad to annotate and read is very poorly done so far. I look forward to future updates to fix this.

Amrmrm, Jun 12, 2019

My best tool

My best tool to have everything I need in one place and at hand. I now I can archive the articles I need for my work, make notes, highlight, search for any article or topic I had archived. It is something I never dreamed before. My private encyclopedia !! And ReadCube continues improving and making things easier for me that are illiterate about booleans and all of this Sanskrit world. One outstanding feature, the support for the customers. With the option to be by email or chatting. They are great to resolve my issues. The improvement from Papers 1, 2, 3 to ReadCube is huge. Thanks ReadCube.

brocoli55, Jul 11, 2021

The potential is there...but so is the frustration

As a former longtime Papers for Mac user, I’m frustrated by what could be a great product with ReadCube. I do like that my articles along with annotations sync to the cloud. But it drives me nuts that this sync isn’t clean when it comes to accessing articles on the web and on an iDevice. For instance, I may make changes to the metadata in one place (iPad) and its completely ignored on another (web). Or that I cannot rate an article at all on the iPad - I have to go to a web browser to do this. So I don’t have complete confidence that if I make any notes, add comments, or alter meta tag details, it won’t work across all platforms.I guess what I don’t understand is that even though I pay an annual subscription for this service, I feel like I’m working with freeware. The developers appear to have no sense of urgency in making value-added updates and their product timeline for the desktop based app is nonexistent. I have two wishes. One, that the developer behind Papers never sold out. It remains a far better product even though no development has happened for over a year. Two, there was a true competitor (no, I do not consider Mendeley or Zotaro competitors) that would either push these developers or actually produce a product that treats us researchers like valued customers. Maybe one day...but it’s clear that day isn’t today or likely to come soon.

Chrisstarrbailey, Aug 31, 2019

Step back from Papers 3 for now

I hope I can revise this to 5 stars soon, but for now, too much of Readcube is a step back in basic functionality from Papers 3. Want to see recently imported papers easily? Look up a hyper-customized search entry online in convoluted support. Want to see a preview of an article in the preview window so you can correct the inevitably incorrect imported citation? Sorry, open the article in a new window and switch back and forth as you type. Want to use preview at all? Sorry, you need to open it in a separate viewing window entirely. Hopeful that years worth of markup transferred correctly from a Papers 3 library? Sorry- all your written annotations appear only as red squiggles all over your imported Readcube file. C’mon guys. If you want to move to a subscription model, focus on keeping the immense value that was already there in papers before adding links to sources in documents. I can see potential here, but some of the more basic things are still missing- get this right.

ChrisVV, Nov 07, 2020

Needs work, but I’m subscribing when my trial expires

As of 2.70, it’s pretty ok, with lots of room for improvement. Papers 3 was significantly better all around, but since ReadCube owns them now, I expect ReadCube Papers will be importing more and more of their features.The most important features for me are there though, and import/search especially are working well enough for now.The reader view UI needs work: The carrier, clock, and battery icons aren’t hidden but merely white in full-screen. Highlighting and annotations are flaky, and there’s no undo button (you have to delete an entire highlight/annotation at once as an object, so small mistakes mean you have to redraw entirely.) Highlighting and annotation also just sometimes just stop working, and I’ll need to exit the pdf to get it back. Export only includes highlights and annotations on the first two pages for some reason. There aren’t options for switching from horizontal paging to vertical scrolling.

danielpcox, Sep 02, 2019

My best tool

Dearme., Jul 11, 2021

Great but Apple Pencil can’t switch modes

I love using this to sync up my note taking for academic research between multiple devices (desktop, iPad, Macbook), and make citation super easy when writing papers. I use the Apple Pencil which is nice for highlighting but it has no support for double tap to change mode. Would be nice to have it switch from selection to highlight for example (or let you configure this). All In all pretty good and I will definitely keep using it, so nice to be able to download stuff on my desktop or laptop and not have to worry and it automatically syncs my library onto my iPad.

ellliottower, Sep 26, 2021

Once again

I love papers. But...I was sent an email asking for feedback which I gave and never got an email response or had the issue fixed. Why ask for feedback if you won’t respond or do the super simple request I asked? Everything about papers is near perfect minus the note taking. The undo function is a nightmare and making scribble notes is a even worse. I want to be able to scribble a sketch on the article and then be able to switch to the eraser easily and then erase only a portion of what I drew, not the whole sketch I made, just the little portion I want deleted. It can’t be that hard to do it. GoodNotes and notability have this down well. Go learn it from them..

Johns shebeens DNS band, Jun 06, 2021

Can’t login

The app is great—but as of late, I can’t use it. For the past few days, when I try to login to the iOS app or the web app, I am redirected to a “Sign in & Register” page that notes that one can use institutional credentials if their institution has a site license (which mine does not), yet, it will only accept institutional credentials: I am unable to login via my account credentials (i.e. the email and password associated with my paid account), as when I do so, I get an error message that the email domain (iCloud) is not associated with an affiliated institution (obviously). When I try my institutional email, I am redirected to OpenAthens…yet my institution does not even use OpenAthens, and the login fails. Hence, I am unable to access my account, or my library. I’m not sure if this coincides with the release of the ReadCube Papers desktop beta, but until what I am hoping is a glitch is resolved, the entire ReadCube suite gets a single star from me—especially since my emails have gone unanswered, leaving me unable to do anything with any ReadCube product.

rjpalumbo24, Jun 06, 2019

So far, so good.

I used Papers for years as an academic; I loved the ability to paste reference place holders in plain text, and use that feature collaboratively with members of my team. But over the past few years it got buggy and crash-prone. When Readcube started, the rate of improvement was slow and I stayed away. After testing the other options, I finally tried the new Papers again, and it’s much better. No crashes, search works well, and it integrates with Google Scholar on Firefox (althought NOT with Safari). I’ve finally subscribed and stopped using the old Papers. It’s not perfect; Search has some quirks that take getting used to (like diacritical marks are required) and I haven’t tried shared libraries yet. But overall, a solid program with a good UI and integration with MS Word.

scidoc666, Apr 18, 2021

Description

ReadCube Papers is the simplest way to read, manage and discover research literature. ReadCube 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 ReadCube 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 Safari or 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 ReadCube 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 ReadCube Papers desktop and web apps or your other mobile devices Simplify your research life – try ReadCube 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 ReadCube Papers!