--- 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 ![Prashidha K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prashidha K.") PK Prashidha K. Software Development Engineer II Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/5/2026 "Amazing application for research paper management" 5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? 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. What do you dislike about ReadCube? 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. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? It is one place to save all of the research papers along with notes and annotations on the papers. We can directly annotate the PDF from any platform and they all sync up. All the highlights are easily accessable and searchable. App is very intuitive and easy to organize thousands of research papers. 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 Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/6/2025 "Excellent literature sorting app" 5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? 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. What do you dislike about ReadCube? By now, nothing, I really like how things are set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? It maintains my library in order, facilitating the organization and retrieval of my papers. I recently began utilizing the AI-integrated tool to extract the main ideas from various works, which functions very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Samuel A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Samuel A.") SA Samuel A. Member of the organizing committee of “Postdoc Work-In-Progress” of Postdoctoral Association Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/26/2021 "Really great app to manage my papers and citations" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? 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. What do you dislike about ReadCube? 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. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? The new version also looks cleaner and more robust. I hope they continue working into improving small details and not increasing the cost of the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/12/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Michelangelo P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michelangelo P.") MP Michelangelo P. Cardiologo, Aiuto Ospedaliero Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/12/2024 "A repository for medical and scientific papers" 5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? 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. What do you dislike about ReadCube? 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. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? During medical practice I used RC to find guidelines references and specific or particular diagnostic flowcharts or treatments. Priceless utility!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic HT Hugo T. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/12/2024 "Excellent work tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? 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. What do you dislike about ReadCube? 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. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? ReadCube keeps my scientific reference library in order and helps me find and insert bibliographical citations in my scientific projects. It also makes it easier for me to read and add them to my database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Inka L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Inka L.") IL Inka L. Associate | Attorney-at-law and public notary Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/15/2024 "Papers is the best reference management software for me!" 5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? 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. What do you dislike about ReadCube? 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. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? storing, organizing and finding my references and pdfs with highlights and comments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![S Shiraz A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "S Shiraz A.") SA S Shiraz A. PhD Student Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/12/2024 "It's all you need" 5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? 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. What do you dislike about ReadCube? 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. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me store, manage, and access my library quite efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Viktor C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Viktor C.") VC Viktor C. Professor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/1/2024 "The best research management tool" 5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? I have been using Readcube Papers since its first stable release in 2019. But I have actually been using its predecessor Papers since around 2014, so for over ten years. What I can report about my experience is that the software is extremely easy to use and at the same time very sophisticated. I organize all my research with Readcube Papers, manage my PDFs, create shared lists with my master's and doctoral students, and record my notes while reading the texts. The support is extremely attentive and really implements solutions that we demand. I simply could not manage my research today without the powerful help of this tool! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? The downside is the high cost, especially for students and researchers from the Global South. Perhaps a specific discount policy for these countries could be applied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? Readcube Papers basically allows me to accumulate a huge library of articles and allows advanced research in an accessible and fast way. In addition, it has a great recommendation system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Karl G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Karl G.") KG Karl G. Distinguished Professor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/29/2024 "Excellent product" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? I was a long time user of the old Papers (when it was under Mekentosj). I was a bit nervous about the upgrade and having to pay a subscription, I have been bitten before when a company has purchased an indie dev software I have used. However it was wonderful - works great and better than before and I like the web based access. It does everythign well and I use it every day. iPad apps also work nicely and sync to the cloud. A very good product and well worth the cost. For the record I am a senior Professor at a University with a library of hundreds of papers. Customer support is also excellent, I've commented on a few issues, some of them have been fixed but all are very positively and quickly replied to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? I'd like to see improved arXiv integration, i.e. to automatically bring in the metadata based on the arXiv number. It seems that sometimes this does not work and one has to wait a few weeks for a new arXiv posting to sync to whatever databases are used. But for me this is a very minor issue, mostly it is automatic but when it is not fixing it manually could be smoother, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing citations 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.) 11/12/2024 "Game-changer" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ReadCube? It is very easy to import papers and organize them. I especially love the feature where it shows the figures, references and data related to the paper in the side bar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ReadCube? Things that can be improved on are the library search bar, where if you specify the author's name without selecting author from the drop down menu, it will not show you papers related to the auhtor by the name. You will have to sleect the option and specify author"name" for the search engine to find the paper. Additionally, I would like to see if the figures can be opened in a side window along with the paper to make reading and referring to figures easier. All in all, it is a great reference manager! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you? ReadCube helps me keep all my literature in one place with easy access to other references from the original papers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated 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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