--- 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: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Education url: https://www.g2.com/categories/education --- # ReadCube Reviews **Vendor:** ReadCube **Category:** [Reference Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/reference-management) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 174 ## About ReadCube 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 organizations, particularly in life sciences, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, 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. As part of the ReadCube ecosystem, Papers provides a sophisticated reference management solution specifically designed for academics and students. With Papers, users can organize, explore, and even engage with their references, ask questions, collaborate with colleagues, and cite effortlessly using SmartCite. ReadCube and Papers' 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. ## ReadCube Reviews ### 1. ReadCube Papers has saved my sanity in grad school **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca Noel C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Easily organizable library, search features, links to citations to make finding additional papers easy, annotating the PDF directly, and the BEST part: the SmartCite for Word add-in! **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** It was a bit buggy in the past, but it seems like a lot of those issues have resolved in the past year or so. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** It's not free/low cost, but it's worth every penny. Make sure to use your university's/company's proxy (in Settings) so that you don't hit paywalls when trying to download articles. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has kept my literature organized in a very user-friendly, easy-to-use manner throughout two graduate programs. The add-in for Word that inserts in-text citations and a bibliography has saved me SO much time and frustration. ### 2. Great for using between my iPad and laptop **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle M. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2021 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I love that I can read and annotate papers on my iPad and then access everything on my computer. I also like that you can search for PDF files if they are missing right in the application. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I'm confused about where to easily access citation information and if there is even a way to generate a bibliography from the articles. This is something I liked about Zotero. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to quickly access PDFs has been incredibly helpful. Organizing my papers is easy and speeds up my work. ### 3. Great app to organize you PDFs! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2021 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I find read cube exteremely helpful to keep, organize, access, read and share my files. I have not used it yet as a citation tool. It syncs nicely with the disktop app and web page from any device! Highly recommended. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Not integrated with EndNote, which I use as a citation tool with collaborators. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find read cube exteremely helpful to keep, organize, access, read and share my files. ### 4. Best app for researchers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 준봉 . | Undergraduate student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2021 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** UI and UX. It's pretty simple and convenient for me. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** When I take notes in my papers, there are some errors, and it cannot be removed. Please update it. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** It's the best app I've ever seen. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Font size. Please let users adjust font size freely. It's a little small currently. ### 5. Combines great features to finally get great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wolfgang G. | CEO, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** There is a lot I really like: 1. That its simple! Organization of the library, importing papers from the journal site or PubMed, PDFs is very easy and citation work not only in MSWords but also Google Docs and, with some efforts, on Pages and others. Noteworthy, I use med360 for searching literature every day and it works great with papers too. 2. It works on all platforms and comes with a very nice desktop version as well. So, no matter with what you work, it works great. We use a Mac desktop, MacNooks, PCs, and Windos-Notebooks, multiple Chromebooks, Android tablets and apple/android phones and it works great everywhere. 3. Its affordable: I share it with my entire team and this with a truly reasonable prize. Its also great, that some competitors, new OSs on the computer/devices do not require paid upgrades from ReadCube Papers like in some competitors. 4. Layout: I like its layout right from its beginning. 5. The team really helps you and respond to queries! 6. The team improves the service continuously and listen to the users. 7. One can highlight in the PDFs and comment and write some notes that can be fast seen in the list. 8. Because, handling and reading and commenting the PDFs is so easy and can be done on so many platforms, I stopped printing out the papers and work almost paper free with ReadCube Papers! Can you imaging printing and storing thousands of PDFs? Thanks to ReadCube Papers, I stopped it 5 years ago and never regretted it. 9. Last, but clearly not least, ist rock solid! I have >13.000 papers as PDF and it works very smooth and fast on all platforms. I am not sure what features others share or not as I stopped using the others a year ago. Because I learned that ReadCub Papers is reliable and reasonable prized and comes with a very motivated team! **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Actually there are two things I am missing: 1. There are still some minor bugs that are enervating sometimes. E.g. The citation key is generated by the desktop version but does not do it automatically despite one can select the option. But its easy to generate for new imports and takes just few seconds. What I miss: 1. That I can colorize the folders and lists for easier search within the own library. I have many lists and categories, so color code may help. 2. Citation import into MSWord/Google Docs: I would dream that one simply selects that in the desktop program and not using the Add-ins feature. But the very good thing here is, the Add-in shows the entire structure of the library, so its simple to find the right paper. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am organizing my entire literature organization, reading and citing with ReadCube Papers. I have currently >13.000 PDF/papers imported and search new papers daily by a small program named "med360". I select the papers there and easily import them into ReadCube Papers from the journal sites that are linked to med360. Its so easy and fast and since using both programs I check papers every day. I als use the program while writing papers also by jointly writing papers and it works very easy. ### 6. Very happy with ReadCube Papers as my reference manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin M. | Graduate Student Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I like that I can annotate all my papers with highlights, underlines, and notes, and even add floating sticky notes. I like the color options for annotations and that I can have a main "summary notes" section. It's my main use of Readcube: to organize and read and annotate papers. It's the most basic function of a reference manager and Readcube lets me do it very well. I also like that it's constantly improving in terms of features, like a browser plugin to add papers to my library, and citation software I can use with Microsoft Word. User interface is also great. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Some papers are not formatted well and this trips Readcube up in terms of annotations, where I can't select certain text or it highlights funny. I also don't like that with many papers, Readcube is terrible at finding the right paper to fill out the metadata. Often only the DOI works. Once you put in the paper's DOI, the metadata automatically fills. But Readcube is bad at finding papers if you just give the title, authors, and/or journal. This is only for the few papers in which the metadata doesn't automatically fill. In general, I have very little problems with Readcube automatically filling out the metadata. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Try it out on their free trail, which lasts quite a long time. You'll still have the papers from your free trails on Readcube if you decide you don't want to continue after your free trial. But I found that I liked Readcube so much it was very worth it for me to pay for it. And I'm still really glad to use it as my reference manager. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization of my papers. I can create folders and add tags. I can annotate papers and go back and see my notes. It's simply a great reference manager. I can sort my papers, filter them, etc. I have not used it extensively, but I also like the option of finding similar papers to ones in a folder. ### 7. Really the best reference manager I have ever used. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James H. K. | CEO **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2021 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** It is astonishingly well integrated into Pubmed **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** There is really nothing that I do not like about it. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** It incorporates the reference and the PDF file into the database with a single click. It allows for easy sorting and searching of the database and is well integrated into MS Word for manuscript composition. ### 8. Excellent for literature managing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jinhai y. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** It's very convenient to track a published paper, how it was cited and by who. It's amazing to add a reference from the software to the library directly. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Now it could not make annotation on the pdf file and save it if the file is opened by another ePDF readers. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** It would save huge amount of time for literature managing, Papers is the best I ever know to make it so easy. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing literatures is a piece of cake now with ReadCube Papers, it's more convenient than Papers 3, and all other literature managing softwares. ### 9. Readcube Papers review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Chrome extension. During Pubmed search, I can import the paper I read. In addition, it can synchronize between multiple devices. Currently I use it in iPhone, iPad and my desktop computer. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I also use iPAD version. It is not as easy as other iPAD apps such as Notability or Goodnotes. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Once I import papers and pdf files, I can read it in any place with any device with my own annotation and highlight. ### 10. The research article management tools every scientist needs. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harry D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The reading, annotation and reference-tracking experience. The highlight with different colours is helpful complemented with the note-taking alongside it. Even better is the direct preview of notes to get a quick revision of the paper. The recommendation feature to helps a lot in tracking down similar papers to what is in a group, a timesaver. The integration of Altmetric and Dimensions is very helpful in getting a quick feel of the impact of a paper. The supplementary sections and the collective look of figures in papers are dealt with ease for quick access. The addition of dark-themed options puts a smile on my face always. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The inability to locate orphan articles easily is hindering. The absence of an option to locate a pdf directly to a reference. The mobile app hasn't the ability to add pdfs too from the phone to the app. I wish the payment could be subsidised for those of us in developing countries because of the difference in currency value. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** If you are ambivalent of this software, just dive in and I assure you won't look back. It's even getting better. The headache of tracking what you have read to include in you to reference papers would be a thing of the past. I see it as the premium version of Zotero with great aesthetics looks, feel and experience. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** It offers a way of cataloguing downloaded research articles for better monitoring of subject-knowledge coverage. Before it, I use to keep these pdfs in folders that were difficult to peruse quickly for papers of interest at a point in time. It's much better now enabling me to have a big picture look at what I have and the icing is the recommendation feature. I used track supplementary papers with multiple clicks, check out the impact of papers with different websites and find both related and recommended papers with different applications ### 11. Great tool for organising publications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carl W. | Senior Scientist, Computational Biology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Syncing to the web for access across multiple devices is very useful. New article recommendations were handy and appropriate. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** No major problems using ReadCube Papers so far. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to easily access my paper library on all my devices is a benefit that I didn't realise I was missing out on when using Endnote to organise my library. ### 12. ReadCube Papers is a Versatile and Clean Reference Manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Automatic import and addition of meta data from files placed in "Watch Folders" makes keeping papers organized simple. The ability to add tags, color marks, flags, and sort papers into (sub)folders makes finding things easy. The PDF reader is feature packed and makes following and downloading citations really easy. It will tell you if the paper is already in your library and gives you the option to import it if it's not. The browser plugin (Firefox for me) is also really nice for making sure you get proper meta data for papers directly from the web. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Occasionally, finding the meta-data for a paper, even with manual intervention can be frustrating if ReadCube Papers can't seem to find it -- even if it the only hit on an identical Google Scholars search. It's support for BibTeX seems rather shallow at times -- it will export with unsupported characters and you cannot import meta data for a paper from a .bib file. The search feature seems to not work that well. I can put in an exact match to a paper's title and it will return 20+ entries with the proper one buried somewhere within. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** ReadCube Papers is worth giving a go. It is free to use and offers plenty of functionality at the free level. The paid features have been worth it to me. The developers are responsive to feedback and get back to you quickly with answers to your questions. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me organize my academical articles and make them easy to find. It has helped me quickly get the citation ready by exporting it directly to my clipboard (in the format I choose). The ability to track down in-paper citations has allowed me to track down relevant papers quickly. ### 13. Avoid this app as of December 2020 **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Convenient with paid version if using Chrome (in theory) **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Features don't work well in chrome and work even less in Firefox. Overpriced compared to how Papers was, and the unpaid version has been rendered useless - so if you decided to stop paying subscription your app is not usable for future work and there is no way to export to use different app. They trap you. We need to disincentivize these business models or we'll be stuck paying out the nose to many small companies in the future to do any work at all. Bring back a Papers model that is supported and a one time purchase. They even admit the desktop version of the app isn't worth using. The browser is the reason to use it and it is not ready. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Don't use it. Wait until it is ready. They even admit it is not. Their business model is also shameful at the moment. Don't presume the unpaid version is usable. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Papers Readcube solves nothing new. Endnote does the same thing as do some other free apps. Readcube papers is convenient but not necessarily moreso than those other apps. Academics should just choose endnote since it is included at most institutions. **Official Response from Val Podbelski:** > Hi there, thanks for the feedback, and we’re sorry to hear you are unsatisfied with ReadCube Papers. To clarify, we do not require a subscription to export your references from the app. If you decide to cancel your subscription, you can always export your PDFs and library as a .bib or .ris file type and use that to move to another app. We never lock you out of your library, so any articles already in Papers are available to download and read. We are continuously adding updates and features across our suite of apps to meet all our users’ needs. ### 14. Best helper for managing papers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc P. | University Delegate at CIHR, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The cloud-based structure allows easy access to, and management of my references, from anywhere. Clean interface. Allows annotations. Allows sharing with other members of my group. The "#tags option is great. Matching tools are also highly useful and work most of the time. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Not so much 'dislikes', but a more direct access to the PDFs themselves would we appreciated (maybe a button within the "read" window). Or, being able to read PDFs in an environment that resembles more that of "Preview" (Mac) would greatly improve the experience. Also, I can't seem to properly harness the Search functionalities. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** For me, Papers is the best way to build an overall reference repository. Its cloud-based structure provides the necessary flexibility for such an endeavour. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** To my knowledge, Papers is the best decentralized solution (and without space limitations) for reference management. ### 15. ReadCube Papers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I like that the app works across my devices syncing papers that I have downloaded. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Not really a dislike, but it would be nice to easily view text from papers on my phone which is quite small given the screen size. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** One problem that is solved is reducing paper waste and being able to find papers that I have downloaded which used to be in various download folders across my devices. ### 16. Great software for citation management! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The automatic parsing of PDF uploads is extremely helpful - no more time wasted manually inserting citations. The inbuilt folder organization is handy and the note-taking interface is also very easy to use. Seamless integration to MS Word and Google Docs (for collaboration) and everything is synchronised across all devices! **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Pre-prints or other non-customary academic manuscripts are usually not recognised. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** The free trial is great way to test out whether this software is for you - after 2 weeks of fairly heavy use while preparing a manuscript I knew this would work well for me. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inserting many citations into an academic manuscript is tedious to do with the native MS Word software - Papers makes it much quicker. ### 17. Incredible software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Functions as a citation manager and as a PDF editor. Tags and folders and custom sorting are all available. Great team of developers. Very responsive. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Occasionally glitches in the citation referencing which I'm sure will get resolved, if not already. Also, the ability to auto match a PDF with the information is occasionally glitchy... sometimes it just doesn't work. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** When writing research papers, I use it to read the current state of the literature, annotate, and then I use it as a reference manager to cite while I write in Microsoft word ### 18. The best software for reference management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** QIMING C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** 1. One can import papers directly from the web browser. 2. After import, it can update the information of the papers imported with high success probability. 3. After recognition, it will NOT automatically overwrite the existing file with the arXiv version. This is one of the reasons I give up Mendeley. 4. During reading, it can recognize the references in the paper, and provide links to them. This feature is super helpful to me, and it cannot be realized by any other softwares I know. 5. The software is fast and easy to use, which is in stark contrast to Endnote, papers3, Zotero and Citavi (Note that the last one does not support macOS). 6. When reading several papers, one can arrange the sequence of the tags. This is very helpful when you open several papers and jump among them, and it is also a reason I give up Mendeley. 7. When you use the full screen mode in macOS, you can always find the menu bar. This sounds a matter of course but it is, again, one reason I give up Mendeley. 8. Also, you can get quite fast reply when facing problems in this software. In comparison, I complained many times to Mendeley for the above issues, but get no response. This makes up my mind to switch to Readcube papers. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** One cannot edit the paper information if it is not in the database. This is not friendly to several old papers, or papers from some oversea journals or conference proceedings. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am reading my PhD in physics, and reading papers is my daily work. After you have downloaded thousands of papers, it matters a lot how to organize them properly so that one could quickly find the papers when needed. Readcube papers is one of the softwares that do this job automatically. When reading one paper, I usually go to several references cited in this paper for a better understanding. Readcube papers is the only software I know that recognizes the references and provides the links. This saves a lot of time for me to search for the references in a web browser. ### 19. The Best Resource You Never Knew You Needed **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cynthia M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I absolutely love the layout of Readcube, specifically the way I can scroll between different tags/resources all within the app. I also love that you can integrate it into a browser and easily add resources with a click of a button. The platform is also very very easy to use and doesn't take much time to learn how to navigate. The option to add in notes for each resource, as well as finding relevant topics based on my research tags has been a plus as well. I don't know what I would do without ReadCube. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I would like to be able to add in my own manual description of an article even if I don't have every detail. When a resource is not recognized by ReadCube it won't let me add in the details I know manually, and that can be kind of annoying. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** I would recommend keeping your tags organized. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a graduate student and researcher. I used ReadCube every day when I am browsing the internet, it is so nice to be able to drop my quick finds with a click of a button to my ReadCube Papers platform. This platform allows me to stay up-to-date with the most current research trends, and stay organized! My work involves the research of social interventions for Autistic and neurotypical learners, so this includes articles on socialization, Autism, communication, neurodiversity, etc. With ReadCube I can stay on top of my work, share resources easily with my thesis advisor, and create cohesive literature reviews. ### 20. Manage your papers, no matter where, no matter when **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike P. | Secretary Treasurer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The ability to synchronize papers between devices. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I miss the Last Import source in the side bar. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am finally able to add papers to a unified library from my iPhone and my Mac. I no longer risk forgetting about a paper because I found it on my phone and added it to a long to do list. ### 21. Best biblio and reference manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olivier A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The smooth and intuitive way everything I want to do when I read an article are implemented: Annotation, sorting, quick check of the cited bibliography, exporting in bibtex format and (a very useful feature) quick check of all the papers that cite this one. All these things can be performed of course without Papers, but the app integrates them in a unique specific place which is a game changer in terms of workflow. The integration between the desktop app and the mobile one is really convenient, you can manually annotate pdfs on a tablet and then store them on your main working station. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The old way (cmd + I in Papers3) to quickly import new papers into the library and the quick view (cmd + space) are definitively missed, but these are minor features that I am sure will be added in upcoming updates... One big missing feature (compared to the older versions) is the ability to share pdfs through email... Apparently now you can only send the reference but the option of joining the pdf has apparently been removed, this is a bummer. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** The app helps me managing my several Gb of academic papers. The huge benefits is that, I have a perfectly, neat, organized library of papers that I can browse in a super efficiently manner and that also gather searching tools to extend it. ### 22. Best app for managing papers I ever tried. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandra B. | Researcher PHD Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** How you can easily import, classify, view references, get recommendations for more papers to read, share libraries, and a cite-while-you-write included in the app. Before downloading this app I would try to organize the papers myself in my computer and get lost in all the files I had to create. Since Papers I am looking forward to start my day with a bit of science reading. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** You cannot select the reference while you are in annotation mode, which is frustrating cause you have to unclick the mode every time you want to see the reference's title. I wish that was fixed. I would also like to join the sentence of the paper when I download the reference to read later, so that I remember why it was cited. When I send a pdf including my notes the receiver is not able to see my notes in Preview. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Definitely worth the money. It makes reading so much easier. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Papers don't fall through cracks anymore. I can also sub-classify papers and use that for future review writing. I like the tools to annotate, highlight, the sticky notes, the pen... I love that you can download a pdf including those notes, however when I tried to send that pdf to people they would not be able to see my notes, so that might be a bug to fix. ### 23. Outstanding app for managing and organizing references across multiple platforms **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Soumyadip S. | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Access to all reference papers across different platforms (laptop, mobile device, etc.). Easy to organize references, and to add them directly from source website. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Need to be online to read a particular paper for the first time in mobile device. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** This is a great application to keep papers sorted and organized. Also great for reading papers during travel, where they are available in offline mode. Can share papers and documents within groups, making easy access. Especially for research groups, great utility to keep everyone on the same page. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to track papers and arrange them, comes handy when writing journal papers. Easy to reference them. ### 24. it is really helpfull **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rawa M. | MSc Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** the way it open the documents , it is fast and simple **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I like it all, no dislikes so far , but still it can be better **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** reading documents without downloading them ### 25. Excellent tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anca T. | Assistant Lecturer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I have been using this software for 5 years now and I find it super useful. I love the fact that I can access my papers from anywhere (due to the cloud), organised and structured well, the fact that I can easily export the citations and I can highlight and add notes and find them in an instant. Super cool for academic use, I always recommend it to my students! **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I cannot access the plugin from safari, but they are working on it. And I wish I could also upload e-books. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organisation of papers, access, easy referencing, notes and highlights ### 26. Essential app for any scientist **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Been using Readcube and Papers for many years, since back when Readcube and Papers were separate entities. Ease of use, annotation, sharing is unbeatable. The UI is sleek and intuitive -- makes you want to read papers all the time :) **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Integration to MS Word is far behind some of the competitors. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can bring up and archive papers from and into my library at any time, from any device. ### 27. A great cloud for scientific papers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan C. V. | Research Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I love its unlimited cloud storage for manuscripts. I keep my whole life collection of references. The graphical interface is really cool. The organization of papers by projects (folders) is really helpful. And finally, what I really love the MOST is its artificial intelligence implementation to suggest papers based on your folders. This has been of remarkable advantage when doing research. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I do not like that there is not a desktop app for Linux, and that SmartCite does not work with LibreOffice. It would be also a great idea to have access to your PDFs directly from the cloud, to being able to download a batch of your PDFs. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** I have been using ReadCube papers for the past 3-4 years and I stick to it thanks to its unlimited cloud storage. I have tried other reference managers but could not get my expectations fulfilled as with ReadCube. I suggest others to try and to organize their references, it works great! I would also suggest people to verify compatibility of ReadCube with other software before buying the license. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is great to keep my library of references (PDFs included) for my different and diverse research projects. I can access to current research thanks to the suggestions of ReadCube based on the artificial intelligence that it uses to learn from the papers I have in my folders. ### 28. Excellent reference manager/PDF library **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** ReadCube Papers manages my library of scientific papers, allowing archiving of PDFs and supplemental files. I have over 4000 papers in my library and trust ReadCube to store and search this set of articles. Searching works well by title, author, year, or journal and is very rapid. While I rely primarily on the MacOS app, ReadCube Papers functions via an online account, which means all papers added to your library are stored in your online account and are therefore visible to any app (web, desktop, mobile) with network access. Setup is relatively straightforward from a folder of PDFs and takes a few hours to complete depending on the size of the library (I ran mine overnight). **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Most of my experience is from the beta version of the software, and as such it has a variety of minor bugs. Keyboard shortcuts such as command-A to select all the text in a text box are non-functional. Browsing of large libraries by scrolling can be limited by the rate at which the desktop app loads data from the online account, with the worst case being if I use command-A to select all references (which works in this context), the app hangs. I recently switched to the release version and these bugs appear to continue to exist. It would also be helpful to have a library export option so as to keep a local backup of the library and all PDFs. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Papers is definitely worth a try if you are looking for a reference manager. There are options to use it as a bibliography tool a la Endnote, although I haven't evaluated these. I would recommend doing a trial and comparing it side-by-side with your current solution to evaluate how well it meets your needs. I did this with the previous version of Papers before the ReadCube merger and quickly ditched Papers and switched to ReadCube full-time. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** 15 years ago I was storing scientific references by printing them out and putting them in a filing cabinet. What I noticed over time was that I accumulated 3, 4, or more copies of certain references because I simply forgot I already had them. At this time someone introduced me to the Papers app for Mac OS, which allowed me to move my library into a digital and searchable format. Papers was great, but over time suffered from a lack of development and support resulting in a number of bugs. For me this included it being non-functional when in author view. Ultimately Papers was acquired and merged with ReadCube, and this renewed development has created a much more functional and useful library manager. It has become my go-to solution for storing, archiving, and accessing references. ### 29. Papers is the best Reference Manager I have used so far **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yair K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** * Importing new papers to Papers is super simple. You simply drag and drop the file into Papers, and that's it! * It is very easy to organize the papers in Papers using folders and tags, which makes it easy to find the papers later on. * Adding and removing citations to my manuscript using Papers is simple and easy. You can do it with Microscoft Word or Google Docs. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I don't really "dislike" these things, but these are few tiny things that hopefully will be improved in the future. * I wish I could open the PDF files with Preview on the Mac. In fact, it is possible to read PDFs files that are stored in Papers using Preview, but then the comments and highlights are not stored. So, you can just read the file. * This comment is related to the first point. Reading PDF files on Papers is not as smooth as in Preview on the Mac. If you are using Preview, you will know what I am talking about. I am not sure this comment is relevant to Windows users. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem that I ReadCube Papers solves for me is managing my PDF files. I read a lot of scientific papers. Papers helps me with saving these files, and then searching within these files, and ultimately add references to them in my manuscripts. ### 30. Has the most important tools for a reference manager, but auxiliary features are rough. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darren M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** This app is accessible on all major platforms and has a great web app interface. Auto-completion of metadata is extremely useful. And it is easy to add supplementary data to papers. Another bonus is the Microsoft Word reference plugin. This made writing my thesis much easier. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** ReadCube Papers tries to implement native PDF annotation, but it is clunky compared to other PDF annotation software. I would prefer if RCP had a more flexible option of performing the annotations in another app. Currently, you need to "Show file in Explorer" and then edit the PDF from there. This creates a problem when you try to share articles, because there is no longer an "annotation free" version of the paper. It would be nice if RCP kept an "annotation free" version to either revert back to or share. Shared article libraries should allow the reference to exist in my normal library (for annotation) and the shared library simultaneously. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reference management is difficult, RCP makes it easier. ### 31. Almost perfect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The app has an almost perfect integration with some browsers (Firefox) and, with the help of extensions can seamlessly add scientific papers (and pdf) to the library. The search tool works quite well (but it is Google-like). The smart citation feature is OKish. The annotations and notes in pdf are preserved across platforms (this was not always true with the old app) **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The desktop app is almost useless(does not really add any feature to the web app. The idea of the old app of restricting search to selected sites/search engines (PubMed, Science Direct) etc. should be reimplemented. The smart citation feature works pretty well in most cases but does need some polishing **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall, as long as you are always connected this is an excellent app for managing your science library. ### 32. ReadCube Papers - an excellent reference manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Easy to use. Stable and reliable. Works well on PC, ipad or using browser. Excellent at finding and downloading pdfs of references when these are available with open access. Easy to mark up copies. Work plug-in makes adding references and bibliography very simple with a wide range of formats **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Highlighting text and marking up references is fiddly and awkward using Windows touch-sreen and finger (tough very straightforward if using a mouse) **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Give it a try **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Excellent reference manager ### 33. Great tool to manage references. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** An easy way to handle products can be smartphone and desktop app, and it is useful to add them to your computer. Even with my small bookshop, I like its pace. The Apple crayon is almost perfect with my iPad Pro and the synchronization function works exactly as you would expect and the easy use of the metrics and quotations that allow you to find new relevant articles is not to be forgotten. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The search functionality is far behind Mendeley, and PDF viewer on the application. The Readcube browser attachment is much better and you can send it to your library. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** The PDF reader is a long way behind many others on the market, boost search features and make the software more user-friendly. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easier than ever to read and synchronize my iPad documents to my Laptop. As I say to my colleagues, I can handle my library through my different ventures, you can never write the details of a guide twice. ### 34. The BEST Citation Manager, Hands Down! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vi D. | Associate Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Where do I start? Papers has been an absolute researchers’ godsend. I have been doing research for the past 15 years and have published numerous articles and even a textbook. I’ve used everything from EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero. Papers/ReadCube trumps them all. I’ve been using the previous Papers 3 version for a few years before the merge with ReadCube. Papers 3 was an excellent product but didn’t have cloud service prior to merging with ReadCube. I’ve been waiting for the release for the new Papers/Readcube app for about a year now. So what’s so good about the Papers/Readcube app? 1) It has full access to all platforms (PC, Mac, iOS, Android). Papers 3 was only available for apple systems. 2) It renames all of your PDFs based on the Metadata. Gone are the days of manually naming your PDFs! 3) Unlimited Cloud storage. This frees up a TON of space on my computer. Especially since I have over 3,500 articles I reference. 4) The reading function is absolutely amazing. It gives you access to metrics, article references, article figures. 5) The annotation function it has is excellent and is more robust than other citation managers I’ve used. 6) Ease of use. It is definitely the easiest and most user-friendly citation manager that I have come across. 7) Email and social share function. I love the fact that I can share articles directly by email or social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** 1) Need a subscription. It would be nice to have a one-time pay option like Papers 3 used to be. But understandably, this is not possible with the unlimited cloud storage they offer. Even with the $60/month subscription it is cheaper than the unlimited subscription for Mendeley or Zotero that cost about $150-160 a month. 2) No Web importer for Safari. I use Safari as my main browser, and it is unfortunate that Papers does not offer it at this point. However, I’ve been using Chrome on my computer and it has worked fine. 3) I do wish it had a free extended version instead of just a free 30-day trial. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problems I was having before Papers/ReadCube was not having a way to organize and consistently name the thousands of PDFs I had. I had them in random folders and could not find my references easily. Papers/ReadCube solved that problem and now I just have to drag any PDF into it and it renames it for me instantly. Now all of my thousands of articles are organized perfectly and easy to find on my desktop, web browser, or phone! Another problem I had was doing literature reviews for a research project and then having to go to PubMed and look for references from that articles to download manually. Papers/Readcube takes care of that by giving me direct access to ALL of the references in an article and allows me to directly import them within seconds. I haven’t seen other citations managers be able to mirror this! Can’t say how much time that function has saved me. Overall, I love this product and can’t recommend it enough. If you are looking for a complete citation manager equipped with the best annotation, reading, and sharing functions, Papers/ReadCube is absolutely the way to go! ### 35. Exciting ReadCube Papers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sridhar R. | Independent Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Storage of reference material (papers) and their easy retrieval and feasibility of annotating the publications. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Some problems while cross reading a paper and returning back to the original article (which is being read), particularly in the mobile (iPad) application. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** A dependable and reference manager in the hands of researchers of all ages has been felt (by me) for some decades, and now the ReadCube Papers serve that purpose. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Safe storage of reference material is the basic benefit. Storing and (1) loosing some at times, and (2) a realistic classification of the stored material (publications). ### 36. I love ReadCube **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy L. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** It helps me keep my papers all in one place but organized and annotated. It has made research so much easier. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Eventually it may be nice to have closer integration with sciencedirect.com/academia.com so that papers are able to be found and downloaded all within the app. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had one big word document before, keeping all my notes in there was messy and difficult. Keeping all the papers organized, annotated and searchable saves me a ton of time and I feel that any fact, figure or reference I need is easily found. ### 37. An incredible application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Farming | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I like the recommendations part and the citation indicators of each article. It works for my research **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** In case of closing a window by mistake, there is no way to undo it **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the benefits is the order of importance in each article. So is the search and the ease of putting it in the application. Helps not generate many files on my computer ### 38. Great reference manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca C. | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** easy and smooth way to directly add papers to the library from journal websites, Pubmed or google scholar. I love the fact that you can take notes, write comments and organize your papers and everything get saved immediately. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Sometimes manual input is a bit complicated. Search function can be improved **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** viable alternative to endnote or mendeley **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to organize all the papers I read and for handle the reference for ms writing. ### 39. I am moved to heavily dislike this app at present **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew W. | Senior Technical Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The nascent automated features - for importing papers into the library (I haven't tried the in-document citation functionality yet) - Papers 4 has potential... **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** This app is awful when it comes to manually importing PDFs and then entering the necessary meta-data. Bugs abound everywhere, and a recent update - Papers v4.0.12 has delivered another bug. I would say this is a prime example of a software development project that has become far too clever in what it is trying to do, or poorly executing great ideas, while forgetting or simply failing at the basics ... - copy / paste - for example fail repeatedly on trying to copy metadata across from the PDF document, and the smart menu of highlighting key meta data is buggy and also missing key fields. There is very little customisability on how one enters metadata and when one is trying to clean up and import 100s of pdfs, Papers 4 is quite simply a miserable experience. I STRONGLY suggest that the developers go back to Papers 3 and look at what Papers 3 did well (a fair amount) and RAPIDLY move this basic and pleasing functionality across to Papers 4. PLEASE ... **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Readcube Papers (4) has lots of clever / useful ideas - but a number of bugs mean that the app can be very frustrating to work with, and in some areas is a retrogressive step from Papers 3 **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thus far not well - let's hope that recurrent releases / updates address the myriad of bugs and lack of basic functionality - thanks. ### 40. Promising Bibliographic App **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel P. | Assistant Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** ReadCube Papers is relatively easy to work with and has a lot of room to improve. The sync is an important feature allowing me to access papers throughout all devices. I recommend it usage. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The tagging of papers could improve and include in the future a way to export our notes. There could be a way to export a library or a selected number of paper to a BibTeX format. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Use it to organize scientific papers. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organizing papers, sync throughout all devices and annotating. ### 41. The best emergent reference manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Simple and yet very functional reference manager. The team is very open to suggestions and are quick to support them. If you are a Mac user, it is more stable and functional than other similar applications. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The subscription fee is a bit high considering their development stage, but if they continue improving and open to suggestions it is worth. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Embrace the new application and start using at full. You will enjoy the simpleness of using it. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to organize the papers through tags and later lists for my work. ### 42. Excellent move to the cloud for Papers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** RoundCube has kept the best parts of Papers after acquiring/merging with the former company developing it. I was skeptical at first, but now I find the new product is superior in many ways. Your database of papers is always available through a website or any device. The paper matching feature has less knobs and toggles than I initially wanted, but its smart selection of the right paper is quite impressive. Well done RoundCube in taking Papers to the next level. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** I had some hiccups in migrating my database initially, but an update fixed everything. I think most folks should be quite comfortable porting their database over to the new version. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its immensely easy to manage my papers collection. ### 43. A easy way to read, mark and sync tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 卫国 . | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Using ReadCube Papers is a normal way to read papers for me, it helps me to read, mark and sync papers. I upgrade from papers3 which saves me time. I have tried many reference management software, I find others can not show the references information directly and they are not easy to use. For example, I need to check the reference information, such as pages, year and journal name. ReadCube Papers or paper3 can show all the information for me. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** 1. The information content is less than paper3, I need all the information columns to show. 2. I want to upload some code, its format is .zip or .rar and its size is small, I don't want to use Finder to organize the codes. 3. I want to download many papers(with notes or without ) from the references list. 4. Some pdf with a password can not be upload. 5. Reference cite format can not be set. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** Best Software for Reference Management. Time is expensive than anything. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Paper sync is a big problem for me. Because Papers3 only can be used in Mac. When I use the Windows or Linux system, if I want to read the paper, I have to change my device to Mac. But when I write code, I have to use my Linux device, so I can not copy or add notes of paper. ### 44. Great tool to manage references **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olga S. | Postdoctoral Scholar, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I changed over from Papers 3 and am very happy I did. Transferring was also much easier than I had expected. ReadCube Papers has all the functionalities I need, most importantly managing my references so that I can add papers to my collection that I find important and retrieve those that I am looking for quickly. Because, over the years, I have accumulated several thousand pdfs in my library, syncing across devices using Papers 3 (via Dropbox) was very slow (~30 min) and while syncing it took up most of the internet capacity at home which obviously was extremely annoying. All these problems are solved with the cloud-based ReadCube Papers and I am super happy to be able to instantly access my papers on all my devices at any time (Android phone, iPad, laptop at home and desktop at work). **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The pdf annotation functions are less intuitive for me to use than in Papers 3 but I'm getting used to it. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was struggling with syncing across devices for Papers 3 for the past years (using Dropbox, every time it took forever because of the large library) and am very happy that this is not an issue anymore. ### 45. Wish I had this in College **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cynthia A. | Graduate Assistant at the office of Ombuds, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** How I can easily keep track of all of my sources in one place with access to a range of tools on the app. I have to read a lot of journal articles and the ability to highlight and write notes on the docs and then arrange it on Papers kept the literature so organized. Tagging the papers with my own subject heads is an example of how flexible and thoughtful the app is. It's like an online binder with every tool you would need to write a paper. Oh, and the integration into other search engines that allows me to upload a source straight to my online ReadCube Paper library, genius! **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The Manual input option when the source is not recognized by the app - I should be able to still input the information even if the app doesn't recognize it. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** If you juggle hundreds or even thousands of online resources or pdfs, you need ReadCube Papers. If you are a researcher, you need ReadCube Papers. Do yourself a favor and get this now if you would like to bring more organization and time to your life. Giving you more time to create great work. ReadCube Papers is easy to use and integrates with everything I'm sure you are already using. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem ReadCube Paper is solving for me is keeping track of hundreds of sources by relevance. When I find resources online when I am writing a paper, I have to print them out. That's a lot of paper. Now I can just upload them to my ReadCube library. I also had a problem of organizing papers by subjects, the tagging ability helps me organize my sources in a way that makes sense to me. ### 46. Excellent Reference managers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexis P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** I like its speed even with my not so small library. The use of the Apple pencil is almost perfect with my iPad Pro and the syncing features do work exactly as you would expect ! And I should not forget the ease of use of metrics and citations that allow you to discover new relevant papers. Did I also speak of the Chrome extensions that allow you to input some references in your library (and even sub-libraries!) with a single click ! **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Some minor details still need work: I wish the bib export would be more reliable since book references are not appropriately handled at this moment. Also I am not sure if this is because I did not find the way to correctly use the app but I wonder why it is necessary to scroll an entire library to "load" it on the screen before you can export it as a bib file. For 400 references on medium-sized projects, it is manageable but I have no idea how I will be able to do this if I need to export my entire library... I also would like to batch edit metadata for references that share some common informations and I miss the cite key autogeneration that we had in Papers (legacy) **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reading and syncing documents from my iPad to my Macs is easier than ever. I am able to manage my library with my different projects and as I say to my student: "you will never write twice the details of a reference". ### 47. worth considering especially now a MacOS version is available **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Logan D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2019 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** The interface is straightforward and it's easy to organize your papers into various categories. I am pleased that a MacOS version is available now that mimics that web version. The integration with MS Word works well, you just have to install a plugin (although my own institution blocked it for while!). The current version appears to be stable and I have not experienced any bogging down when the database become large. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The software is complete enough to be useful but there are still many features that could be added. (1) The ability to search in Pubmed and other databases is gone in ReadCube papers or I am not sure were I can choose (2) The citation for the last imported paper goes into the master database and then you have to drag it into a folder. It would be better if you had the choice immediately where you wanted to file it. (3) Citation entry in MS Word could be more advanced with the ability to see what is in a folder rather than remember a title or a name to search from. (4) I am wondering if I also lost my ability to integrate my university proxy into the MacOS version. It would be helpful to have some visual indication of which databases are currently subscribed. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** A viable alternative to Mendeley and Endnote. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for all of my manuscripts. It's indispensable in that respect. I like the ability to tag my references with key words so I can organize by special topic or project. ### 48. Serious downgrade over Papers3 that makes everything more difficult than it should be **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard G. | Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** There are no features in ReadCube Papers that I like in comparison to the features available in the old stand-alone version of Papers3. I used to like the ability of Papers3 to efficiently search for, download and sort references and associated PDFs, but the efficiency of this workflow is severely curtailed in this "upgrade" to ReadCube papers. Finding and downloading PDFs is more complicated than it used to be and it is not possible to easily open PDFs in an external viewer like Adobe Acrobat (in Papers3 this coudl be done by clicking a simple keyboard shortcut). After three weeks of using ReadCube papers on a daily basis I can report that it is quicker and easier for me to manually search for and download references rather than to continue using the software that I purchased to help me with this process. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The new ReadCube Papers makes it significantly more difficult to find and download PDFs due to features that do not seem work (e.g., find PDFs button) and an overall effort to police access to documents that are owned by commercial publishers (like the owners of ReadCube Papers). I find the overall ReadCube papers experience a major step backwards for the Papers platform (which I have used successfully for around 10 years). I will not recommend this software to anyone because, at least for my uses, there are clearly better products on the market. **Recommendations to others considering ReadCube:** My recommendation is that you look elsewhere for your reference management needs if you are primarily interested in efficiently finding, storing and sorting a library of academic references in PDF format. ReadCube Papers makes this process much more difficult and time consuming than it might be (even in relation to the previous version of the Papers software). After being a longtime user of Papers, I now recognized that his latest "upgrade" actually makes the software significantly worse than it was before; to the point that I no longer find it useful for my research purposes. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not been able to solve the problems with access and readability with ReadCube papers. After 10 years of being a Papers users I am moving on to use another reference management platform. **Official Response from Val Podbelski:** > Hi Richard, thanks for the feedback and we're sorry to hear you are unsatisfied with ReadCube Papers. To find papers (both within the app and across the web and search engines), you need to have the browser extension installed. The ReadCube Papers browser extension will allow you to import articles you have access to automatically. If you don't have access to the article, due to a paywall, then it will still import all the metadata. Unfortunately, we cannot bypass publisher paywalls, but we do try and facilitate faster access to the PDF through the browser extension. There are multiple ways to download the PDF once it is in your library so you can read it in any 3rd party PDF reader. We offer live chat and private training tutorials that can help you navigate around ReadCube Papers. ### 49. Working with Papers app is highly productive. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** Organizing all the information about papers that you are interested. The ability to import papers directly from your browser. Highlight important pieces of information and have them available from any device. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** The keyword search can improve in specificity of results. **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having all the papers in one place, that you can access from any type of device. ### 50. Very capable and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about ReadCube?** This is by far the best bibliographic reference software I have ever used. It is easy to use. It intelligently imports metadata, even if you only import a PDF. Online data storage is simple and robust. The Word plugin is also good, although it could use some keyboard shortcuts like Endnote, or previous versions of Papers. It is much better than Endnote and a step up from Papers 3. **What do you dislike about ReadCube?** Perhaps the Word plugin could be a little better in terms of integration, but this is a minor issue **What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an active researcher, ReadCube Papers makes my interactions with journal articles much more enjoyable and convenient. ## ReadCube Discussions - [How can I see pdf while editing bibliographic data?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/40201-how-can-i-see-pdf-while-editing-bibliographic-data) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Readcube library format](https://www.g2.com/discussions/27563-readcube-library-format) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [In ReadCube Papers, are PDFs stored online *only*?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/in-readcube-papers-are-pdfs-stored-online-only) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is there a way to reorganize the interface?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-there-a-way-to-reorganize-the-interface) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How do identify articles that are not grouped](https://www.g2.com/discussions/30106-how-do-identify-articles-that-are-not-grouped) - 2 comments - [View ReadCube pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/readcube/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-12+16%3A55%3A16+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=46f10e54-9d51-4fa8-902f-e3ca4467a0c4&secure%5Btoken%5D=f4f8e38389730f7a91a78d9deaa350fba3bc3cbd403374da6c1019e6fa018c07&format=llm_user) ## ReadCube Integrations - [Chrome OS](https://www.g2.com/products/chrome-os/reviews) - [Microsoft Word](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-word/reviews) ## Top ReadCube Alternatives - [Mendeley](https://www.g2.com/products/mendeley/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (248 reviews) - [EndNote](https://www.g2.com/products/endnote/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (181 reviews) - [EasyBib.com](https://www.g2.com/products/easybib-com/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (151 reviews)