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Storage of reference material (papers) and their easy retrieval and feasibility of annotating the publications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some problems while cross reading a paper and returning back to the original article (which is being read), particularly in the mobile (iPad) application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps me keep my papers all in one place but organized and annotated. It has made research so much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the recommendations part and the citation indicators of each article. It works for my research Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In case of closing a window by mistake, there is no way to undo it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes manual input is a bit complicated.

Search function can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The nascent automated features - for importing papers into the library (I haven't tried the in-document citation functionality yet) - Papers 4 has potential... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The subscription fee is a bit high considering their development stage, but if they continue improving and open to suggestions it is worth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pdf annotation functions are less intuitive for me to use than in Papers 3 but I'm getting used to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.