ReadCube Reviews & Product Details

It supports multiple platforms (web, android, ios). But the best thing about Papers is the annotations you can do on your papers. I like to annotate mypapers a lot and you can easily do annotations and review your highlights.

I used Papers 3 (legacy) a mac application during my PhD which was already awesome. the New Papers app is even better because of its multi platform support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Papers is best when you have a pdf of the paper. When you don't have the pdf, i sometimes find it bit hard to extract references as it lacks copy past (bibtex) based import. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The search functionality is effective, both within my own library and across external data sources. Importing references is straightforward, and the library of reference styles is extensive. It’s also easy to categorise references, and the display can be configured to suit my preferences. Overall, it provides very effective reference management while working on a manuscript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neither the desktop app nor the web application is reliable, and key features repeatedly stop working. For example, the preferred reference style and the display of articles often fail. There is also a limited selection of reference types, and the PDF markup tools are very poor and not very usable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ReadCube is highly user-friendly and intuitive, significantly assisting me in organizing my extensive collection of papers. I appreciate its capability to automatically download papers along with supporting information. Additionally, I can establish folders to maintain an orderly system. It also has AI-integrated tools to prepare a summary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By now, nothing, I really like how things are set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The aspect of the program is clean and articles look very organized. It is very easy to upload a file and highlight it, take notes, etc. Moreover, I can create my own collection of papers grouped by different topics.

Finally, I like the option of read a paper on my iPad and everything is automatically updated on my laptop version.

In the last versions, they have improved the stability of the app a lot and also the search option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One think that I don´t like very much is the need of installing an extension to Word program to insert citations. My institution has blocked these extensions on Word and now I am not able to insert citations there. They should do this in other way to avoid this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing I like is that the papers are stored on the Cloud, so I can access them from my home office, my work office, on when I am traveling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used Papers 2 and Papers 3 for many years, and enjoyed the functionality and ease of use. In particular, it interfaced very well with arXiv and with MathSciNet and made importing papers and bibliographic information very easy. The new version ReadCube has lost a lot of the functionality. The user interface is clumsy: in particular, importing papers and then adding bibliographic information is a pain. It is very hard to create special libraries for projects. For instance, I wanted to create a library of all my own (100+) publications, but the only way I could figure out how to do it was to move them one at a time.

There are now multiple duplicates in my archive--cleaning them out is too much work. And when a paper gets updated (e.g., when the authors post a revision to arXiv) there does not seem to be any easy way to replace the existing file with the new one, which leads to all these duplicates.

I only use the online version now, as the program on my computer is way too clumsy to be of serious use.

I do not like the fact that it cannot search easily for names with diacritical marks. For instance, I have papers by an author named Hästö, and half of them got indexed as Hasto. Therefore, to find anything, I have to search twice. Other databases (such as MathSciNet from the American Math Society) let me search for Hasto.

I never use the program to export bibliographic information: what it produces in the BibTeX format requires so much clean-up that it is easier to go online and download the citation information elsewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Readcube /Papers is a useful repository of scientific and medical papers. Before RC I added the papers using my Evernote account, creating tags and folders.

However in RD the opportunity to make the search directly in the various databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The organization in folders should be easier and more powerful. Also it should be very useful to export and /or share paper citation in the most used and common formats, to let the citations easier to use writing papers and bibliography.

Also a more powerful pdf editor should be very useful (for instance to cut and paste titles. Graphs or figures to use in slides).

Another useful function could be having two or not so much sub accounts. I'm thinking for small groups, having the same bibliography but saved under different folders and tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Readcube accompanies you on all journal websites. It is present in the most popular text editors (Word and Google Docs). You can search for articles directly in its search engine, you can choose from many styles, you can use your library code to access articles, you export to many formats, you save your pdfs online, you highlight and annotate. It is multiplatform. In fact, it has everything I need to keep my citations organized and to generate the cited literature for my works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are few things I don't like. One of them is that it doesn't allow you to see a preview of the citation styles. Also, in the old Paper I think I could identify a PDF more easily to add its metadata, now it's more complicated and it tends to make mistakes. The rest makes me very happy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Papers is super straightforward to use - importing and organizing literature is so seemless, I never need to actually sit down and catch up on any structuring, I just do it on the fly. I also love the mobile app where I can always find papers super quick to share with someone. The best function though for me is being able to save, read and highlight my PDFs inside Papers and the marked sections being searchable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice to have an option so save more searches, ie create more types of smart lists. It would also be great to have options to visualize connections between paprrs in my library. And finally, if there was a way to use my digital pen in the reading mode, that would be life-changing... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Makes sharing resources easy. Fosters collaboration within my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Website lacks clear explanation/demo of product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ReadCube's Papers is just brilliant. I am a historian and I have been managing my library on it for a few years now. And it's been a game changer. I can access the material and my annotations from anywhere. The search feature scans through the library cross-sectionally! The new AI feature is also pretty decent. So is the latest UI. I recommend it to colleages and students pretty often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, really. Or I guess the company can improve the icon design for the annotation sticky (when it appears on a page). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.