Papers by ReadCube
3.6star
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About this app
Papers by ReadCube is the simplest way to read, manage and discover research literature. Papers on your Android device is the perfect companion to the Papers desktop app, 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 your browser, 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 mobile and computer.
We love feedback from our users - please email support@papersapp.com with any suggestions or issues. Thanks for using Papers!
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 your browser, 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 mobile and computer.
We love feedback from our users - please email support@papersapp.com with any suggestions or issues. Thanks for using Papers!
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Ratings and reviews
3.6
539 reviews
Martin G
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March 28, 2024
Works really well for me, but I don't understand for the love of God why there is no way to add files from the phone or the tablet. That would really increase usefulness of the mobile apps. I can add stuff when I open the Papers website on my tablets browser and add files, but when I use the app I'll have to download the same files again.
Chris Awai
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October 2, 2021
Updated: Huge improvements in UI and features over previous versions. Thank you for the continued development and not abandoning your mobile-first users. Old: Importing references via the "share with" button just shows the library instead of importing the reference. This makes the app rather useless and inferior to it's competitors. Update: People have been complaining about this for 1.5 years at least now. Please enable import from url (as in desktop) and not only from pdf.
12 people found this review helpful
Minh-Anh Huynh
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October 18, 2021
I like ReadCube Papers but the mobile Android experience is a disaster. Reading is cool, the zooming feature works. But when you want to highlight from a text, going down some lines, your realize you can't even see the words hidden behind the highlight menu. Embarrassing. More importantly it's a nightmare to actually import papers manually either from a website or manually from a pdf. I can't believe the desktop app is so good and the mobile one is miserable. It's not self sufficient in a pinch
13 people found this review helpful
What's new
- Added Undo/Redo operations for annotating the PDFs.
- Added new options for the thumbnail bar inside the PDF reader.
- Added new option for the page turning 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.
- Added new options for the thumbnail bar inside the PDF reader.
- Added new option for the page turning 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.