
Papers by ReadCube 17+
Digital Science & Research Solutions Inc.
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 3.60
Improved AI Assistant for PDF Reader.
Added option to leave shared library.
Added notifications for changed items.
Added Organization Landing Page
Various other small improvements and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
See AllSo far, so good.
I used Papers for years as an academic; I loved the ability to paste reference place holders in plain text, and use that feature collaboratively with members of my team. But over the past few years it got buggy and crash-prone. When Readcube started, the rate of improvement was slow and I stayed away. After testing the other options, I finally tried the new Papers again, and it’s much better. No crashes, search works well, and it integrates with Google Scholar on Firefox (althought NOT with Safari). I’ve finally subscribed and stopped using the old Papers.
It’s not perfect; Search has some quirks that take getting used to (like diacritical marks are required) and I haven’t tried shared libraries yet. But overall, a solid program with a good UI and integration with MS Word.
Best multi-device reference manager
Perhaps the only reference manager you can use accross your phone, ipad, and PC seamlessly. Love to take notes and read in depth from my ipad so the ability to do annotations and highlighting is a fantastic feature, but always need the PC for deep searches, so its great I can share the library across all my devices. Tagging feature is very useful but could use some support on ipad as you can’t search tags and must scroll through a long list. Would like to see more features in regards to display/ordering of columns in main library spreadsheet view, as any changes aren’t permanent and reset when you leave the page. Could also use some work with finding and downloading papers from ipad, always works on PC but the institutional logins don’t seem to work when accessing from ipad often.
Best app for mobile users
There are several good citation managers that allow importing and annotating article PDFs from a PC. My work flow is that I like to add citations wherever I learn about them, and that means entering my iPhone, while reading and making notes on my iPad. I was a happy user of Mendeley until they terminated the iOS mobile app. Papers is outstanding for this use. I can add references and PDFs instantly from a pc browser add on or directly from the app. While reading an article, it’s easy to highlight, annotate, take notes. A side bar instantly grabs any cited papers that I might want, and another tab finds related articles. It’s easy to organize my library by tags and hierarchical lists. I’m sure there are other fine features but I’ve been too busy doing great research to find about them.
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Information
- Seller
- Digital Science & Research Solutions Inc.
- Size
- 75.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 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
- © 2025 Digital Science Research & Solutions, Inc.
- Price
- Free