--- title: ReadCube Reviews meta\_title: 'ReadCube Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 174 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how ReadCube works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 174 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Education url: https://www.g2.com/categories/education --- # ReadCube Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by ReadCube but has limited features. Are you part of the ReadCube team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/readcube/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! ReadCube is an all-in-one research management software designed to empower researchers, academics, and professionals in organizing, accessing, and analyzing scientific literature more efficiently. With advanced AI-powered tools, ReadCube transforms literature workflows, improves discoverability, and streamlines literature management, enabling researchers to focus on critical analysis and breakthrough findings. Built for research-driven individuals and organizations, ReadCube's intelligent features support comprehensive literature review and seamless reference management. The platform's AI-enhanced search and personalized literature monitoring keep users updated on relevant studies, significantly reducing manual work and saving valuable time. Key features include: - Reference Management: Organize and sync references across devices, making it easy to access sources anytime and anywhere. - AI Assistant: Interact with individual PDFs or entire libraries to clarify complex terms, identify research gaps, translate content, and more. - AI-Driven Literature Recommendations: Discover relevant articles specific to your research interests, streamlining the discovery process. - PDF Reader: Annotate, highlight, and share insights within PDFs for collaborative research and review. - Literature Monitoring: Receive personalized alerts and notifications to stay updated on the latest publications in your field. -SmartCite: A user-friendly citation tool that connects your library to your writing platform, enabling seamless citation as you write. ReadCube's AI-enhanced literature management solutions support thousands of organizations and millions of researchers worldwide, helping them get back to the breakthrough work that matters most. * * * Seller [ReadCube](https://www.g2.com/sellers/readcube) Discussions [ReadCube Community](https://www.g2.com/products/readcube/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Rachel Segal Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by ReadCube. ### ReadCube Starting at $65.00 Per Year ### ReadCube Enterprise Contact Us [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/readcube/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Mendeley](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mendeley") Mendeley 4.3/5(250) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mendeley/reviews) [ ![EndNote](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "EndNote") EndNote 4.1/5(183) ](https://www.g2.com/products/endnote/reviews) [ ![EasyBib.com](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "EasyBib.com") EasyBib.com 4.6/5(153) ](https://www.g2.com/products/easybib-com/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/readcube/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 174 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## ReadCube Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Microsoft Word ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-word/reviews) Show More SJ Summer J. Coordinator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/17/2025 "Literature Management Made Easy" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? Makes sharing resources easy. Fosters collaboration within my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? Website lacks clear explanation/demo of product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? Finding resources for the classroom Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") UR Verified User in Research Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/13/2024 "Very good reference manager with some things that could be improved." 4/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? It is easy to look for references, read them, find immediately the related papers, export citations in various formats. It is helpful that you can retreive paper information on the web and automatically update each record. I use it often as my reference manager software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? It should work better at find out duplicates and in general housekeeping operations of the database. I have many references, and sometimes it is easy to keep a tidy database. Moreover, the plugin for Safari doesnt work as it should. Last, although the web version has AI integration, the desktop one still fails and in general there are problems with loggin in on the web-based version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? It is extremely helpful to store and organise the papers, and to cite them (bibtex export is a great value!) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic OM Ola M. Professor Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/22/2024 "Readcube Paers is OK, but needs some fixes" 4/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? The database of references and their PDFs is very useful, as is the ability to sync via devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? The user interface is inconsistent. Eg. if you press delete a recod, you get a dialogue box with yes highlighted, which elsewhere means this is the default option (as the programmer should expect if that is what the user chose). But no, if you press enter, the record is not deleted. In many of the PDF views selecting text is impossible of very difficult. Thee downloading of PDFs still fails frequently evne when they are clearly indicated on the journal page. Very frequently article data are not matched even though they include the DOI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? It gives me easy access to my most important references (now about 4000) and searching within them. Easy import new pdfs with the uplod folder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Antoine L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Antoine L.") AL Antoine L. Associate Prof Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/23/2024 "Very useful, but not quite as its predecessor, Papers." 3.5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? How to organize my references. How to find references. The citation process is fairly straightforward. How the information of reference is automatically acquired by Read Cube is useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? The search engine in Papers, the predecessor to Read Cube, was far superior. With Papers, I could search for a specific word, which would bring all the references (articles) in which this word occurs, anywhere in the text (i.e., not only in the title and/or abstract). This was useful when having forgotten the specific information about a reference (authors, journals), but still remembering specific words that could be found in the text. Read Cube does not allow such a search. Furthermore, I wish the citation process (how to include references in a Word document) would also function by subject, and not necessarily by using specific information about a specific reference, such as the authors' names. Again, this was a useful feature that could be found in Papers, which reduced the need to remember the names of authors. Only writing a given subject would bring appropriate references. It's funny how so-called progress is often regressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? writting scientific papers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jacob D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jacob D.") JD Jacob D. Lecturer Faculty Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/29/2024 "Good Reference Manager, Needs Some Improvement" 4/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? Papers is a powerful tool I use regularly from my web browser to catalog and annotate published papers (and other files) easily. The lists (essentially, a virtual directory structure) feature makes it easy to organize papers by subject, project, etc... and they can exist in multiple lists without requiring any duplication of files. The feature set is probably a lot more robust than I make use of, but for managing sources and quickly accessing and building references lists, it's an easy to use solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? The UI design feels inconsistent in terms of everything from where certain menus are to how pop up dialogs are presented. Some simple features the community has asked for are have not been implemented, such as having quick access to a list of recently imported papers (we only have recently read) and also being able to filter by papers that are not currently tagged and/or not currently assigned to any list. These are important features for housekeeping to ensure resources we saved but couldn't catalog right away don't become lost as our libraries grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? Maintaining an organized list of scholarly publications and references. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") UR Verified User in Research Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/15/2024 "All good, but the new UI design is not pretty" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? It works and is integrated with the web browser nicely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? All good, but the new UI design is not pretty. The old design is much better!! Also, a bit expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? Dayily usages for readin research papers, and writing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/12/2024 "Works efficiently" 4/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? That i easily manage my pdfs That i can have all my library downloaded on all my devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? TV hr function to either include my comments on a pdf o send the pdf "naked" was a good function that is removed I want to store all type of supplementary file on the desktop version of the app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? It manages my references I use the separate app and se no use of the web version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/12/2024 "Getting better" 4/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? Great to download most papers directly from links Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? Using some journal links leads to articles not being downloaded correctly with incorrect information. Annotation can be problematic without the undo ability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? Storing papers for future reference Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") UR Verified User in Research Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/24/2024 "Best citation manager app I've tried" 4/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? Very nice tool to organize one's research papers, intuitively built and self-explanatory. The syncing between tablet and notebook works perfectly, so I can read and annotate on every device seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? The experience in the software for mac is a bit slow (for example opening papers). And if you clicks on a link in a paper, it should not open in a new tab in papers! I'm sure most people agree with me that opening links in one's favourite browser is better! For these reasons, I often switched to the browser version of Papers, which works perfectly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? The syncing between tablet and notebook works perfectly, so I can read and annotate on every device seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Tadashi U.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tadashi U.") TU Tadashi U. 執行役員　CSO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/23/2024 "Daiky use of readcube" 4/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? Easy download the information of pubilication and pdf files. Just go to the website and import to the library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? pdf OCR recognition is not equipped, This will help to organize the library When I have scanned document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? Readcube supports time consuming work such as organizing document Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/25/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about ReadCube? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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