ReadCube Reviews & Product Details

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.