ClinicalKey Reviews
2/5 rating based on 43 reviews. Read all reviews for ClinicalKey for iPhone.
ClinicalKey is free iOS app published by Elsevier Inc.
Great Content, Horrible app
RandyK29582
Elsevier publishes some of my favorite books and journals, and everything works great on a desktop or laptop, but if you are using the app on iPhone or iPad, it is a dreadful experience. You get continuous warnings that your network has changed, even when it hasn’t, and why the app even cares is beyond me. The textbook search engine will not take you to the requested textbook, and there is no list to jog your memory, just a place to enter a textbook name from memory. Searching for articles often leads you to something completely unrelated to the key words you entered. The application also will not run in the background, so if you leave to use another app, you lose everything you were looking at. Looks from reviews like these problems have been present for several years, though the app is only at v. 1.something, so not so not well attended to. Unless you plan to use clinical key only on your computer, I would skip it and go with Up to Date.
Can’t even login. Worst app
Aalap9
ClinicalKey has good content. But this app doesn’t let you use any of it. Can’t even login consistently
Poor execution of an incredible resource
tonimesha
Is anyone paying attention to this app anymore? I noticed the last update was a year ago. The resources in this database are incredible, and I find the information to be easily readable and well laid out. However, I keep getting booted out while using the app. And, furthermore, it is not easy to get logged back in since I have to go through the institutional login route. Please update and simply this app!! I really want to love this app and rely on it, but you’re making that difficult for me.
STOP LOGGING ME OUT
shadowx360
Publishers like Elselvier are exactly the ones driving people to pirate and not pay. My institution pays for my access and for some dumb anti-user reason, they decide to log you out every time you close the app to satisfy some idiotic internal “security” requirement. You will have a better user experience if you download the PDF - I’m not advocating for piracy but I shouldn’t have to pay to be treated like a criminal.
App needs serious work
cheenicheeni
This is rating app usability not the content UTD app >>>>CK app If CK wants to compete with big brother UTD - stop logging me out each time I minimize -have a save login feature easily accessible -landscape mode on iPhone with less screen overlap bug - favorite book saving option -options on screen color and text size please - cleaner experience that is less laggy -option for DL of material would no network is needed Please do this. For a grand a year for the IM packet we should have a more functional app since it is 2021. BEST resources in probably the worst app.
Very similar to web experience
Netter Enthusiast
I have not experienced the forced logout that others have stated in their reviews and I suspect it is because I am logging in with the personal account I created after I accessed the clinical key website through my school’s library as opposed to using my school’s login credentials. My suggestion would be to try that route. As for the app itself, it functions very similar to the website. I can access the same material (including textbooks) that I could on the website. The only things I wish it had that the website had is the ability to “find on page” and change the size of the text. If I were king for a day (or, if someone from CK is reading this) I would enable web users and app users to favorite books—whole books, not just chapters or images from them. Having to constantly search for the names of textbooks gets tedious.
Could be great
FishingGirlie
This could be a great app! However, I cannot access the books. I can see everything else but for the most part I need the books to keep this app. If I can view them, will give 5 star rating.
Fantastic App
Gold star2006123
I used this app and it was great whoever made it did a good job It was perfect for reference material 5 stars
Would be nice if it had landscape support for the iPad
drmich11
Would be nice if it had landscape support for the iPad
View doesn't rotate
MedLibrarian2016
I have a keyboard for my iPad so I only use it in landscape view. It is very awkward to search this app because it doesn't rotate. I will stick with the online version until this gets updated.