Papers by ReadCube 17+
ReadCube
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Papers by ReadCube is the simplest way to read, manage and discover research literature. Papers on your iPhone and iPad are the perfect companions to the Papers desktop software, enabling you to access your papers anywhere – read on the go, organize your library, and annotate PDFs with notes and highlights.
Enhanced PDF:
• Tap-able inline citations, reference lists, and author names so you can quickly find cited articles and related information
• Supplements are automatically attached where available
• Fullscreen or double-page PDF viewing plus multi-touch zoom/navigation for an optimal reading experience
• Multi-color highlighting and note taking tools
Easily find new papers:
• Search the Papers databases within the app
• Quickly download new articles with a single tap when you’re on campus or with your institutional proxy
• Import directly from Safari, email attachments, and other apps
• In your preferred browser, use any search engine to find article PDFs
• Use the “Open In…” option from the browser or any app to add PDFs to your Papers library
• Metadata is automatically resolved - no more guessing with cryptic file names
Personalized Recommendations:
• Discover relevant new papers based on your library or lists – you’ll never miss another important paper again!
Stay organized:
• Create custom lists and sort articles into one or multiple lists
• Quickly search your entire library (and all annotations)
• Add any number of #tags to further customize your library organization
• Sync everything – papers, notes, highlights – between the Papers desktop and web apps or your other mobile devices
Simplify your research life – try Papers for free on your iPhone, iPad, and computer.
We love feedback from our users - please email support@papersapp.com with any suggestions or issues. Thanks for using Papers!
What’s New
Version 3.40
- Added Undo/Redo operations for annotating the PDFs.
- Added new options for the thumbnail bar inside the PDF reader.
- Added a new button to open and close the menu.
- Added a new sync progress information label.
- Improved Papers authors search.
- Improved recommendations and search views.
- Improved edit reference view.
- Various other small improvements and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Serious UX issues
Major love given to this app recently and am happy to amend my previous review. All of the UX issue I previously stated have been fixed and this feels more inline with the web and desktop app (although it would be super useful to have the annotation functionality of the web app working on mobile browsers. Finding the perfect reference manager is a bit of a white whale. For me Papers is still the best. I’d still prefer a native Mac app instead of a wrapped web app but I can live with it. Awesome work on this update.
Amended review (previously 2 stars)
If this app is intended to convince people to buy into the subscription model of ReadCube from Papers it need a complete UX overhaul. It’s fairly obvious this app gets little attention and there are some real experience issues. All elements are far too small for a modern mobile screen. The library is accessed from an old fashioned sidebar drawer with a tiny drag tab by way of a swipe gesture. The problem is that the swipe gesture is also used for all the element inside and outside of the drawer. A swipe to close the drawer I end up editing a folder in my library. A swipe when the drawer is closed and you activate the multi-select. Select one of these items and I’m a small finger movement from deleting an item. I want to like this as at some point Papers3 will become legacy but as a professional UX designer I am worried at how poorly thought out this app is.
Direct Quotes
Needs options for direct quotes e.g. being able to put the page number
Some rethinking needed
Coming from the Papers3 App for iOS, it seems here they have gone for simplicity. Some menu items are unresponsive, and not so user friendly. It’s a shame because it excels on the viewing documents and editing, with very fast syncing times between devices via their cloud service. I’m very pleased with that, because let’s face it, that’s what this app is for.
However, I wish that the developers put a bit more thought on the functionality of app, with editing categories/keywords, a quick download all papers, hide the side menu on iPad versions, see icons instead of just titles.
The layout of this app I guarantee will not please many users of Papers3, and I don’t think they are going to do well with new users, the app requires a subscription and therefore a specific set of users will download it. For me at least, I am hoping that the developers can think of a way to integrate the new features with an interface that we are familiar.
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Information
- Provider
- Labtiva Inc
- Size
- 59.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2023 Digital Science Research & Solutions, Inc.
- Price
- Free