Mendeley (PDF Reader) Reviews

Apple Pencil Glitches

Carlablob

I appreciate this app for the most part, but I find that the app frequently stops detecting my Apple Pencil when using it to highlight text, which is quite annoying. (Note for any other users with this issue: I usually find that quickly toggling the pencil mode from highlight mode to navigation/note and then back to highlight, usually resolves the issue temporarily). Aside from that, if it were easier to import files from within the mobile app, and if the app supported handwritten annotations, it would be perfect in my opinion.

Deleted Folders

Gusbehid

Pros: Allows sync across devices Decent annotating capabilities Intuitive interface Cons: DELETED MY FOLDERS!! This is a huge deal, and based on the Mendeley support site, it looks like this has been a known problem since at least May. I’ve decided to switch reference managers. I can’t risk this happening again.

Elsevier...where innovation goes to die

Thx1138r

Leave it to a corporate behemoth to ruin innovation. Hey Elsevier who is running your Mendeley business? You need to fire that entire division and hire people who know something about deploying an app that meets the needs of the end user. Without changes at the top Elsevier will become the Sears of the academic publishing world faster than you can say “paywall”.

Poor functionality reader

087g807ghuljkh

I appreciate the cost, and understand that this app is meant to be an adjunct reader to the desktop Mendeley program. However, even as a reader, there are a number of basic problems that make it problematic. Pros: Syncs up with desktop Mendeley so items display markups and highlights Displays and can edit article information Cons: Cannot rotate pages - this one feature is so basic as to be a head scratcher why this isn’t an option Can zoom in, but cannot zoom out to a desired view point setting Cannot crop pages (also a problem in the desktop version) There are better PDF viewers out there certainly, but the price is right for this one. Still, I am frustrated because the functionality of the desktop to integrate with statistical programming is great, but even as a reader, the iOS app does not have some basic requirements.

Not usable

Jon.Wang

The app on iPad never pass syncing. For some reason, the whole app is frozen during syncing, therefore the app is completely useless. The development team really needs to focus more on iPad client as more people start using iPad to read and annotate papers.

Lifesaver

Mizjeza

This app is a dream come true for any grad student. It revolutionizes research by consolidating files and keeping references organized. I’m in love.

A bit broken

jScone

Freezes when it tries to sync in this version, but if you go fast and log out before it locks up, then log back in, it seems to fix the issue.

Stability improved a lot

zhangtemplar

My first experience of it is it just crashes on launch but it is obviously fixed now. However the annotations function of pdf is barely usable. PDF reading is also buggy that it will jump to the first page.

Used Mendeley for Years

lemons808

The desktop version has text highlight and “rectangle” highlight which allows you to highlight important text in flat (often old) PDFs. The iPad version lacks this option and is a major limiting factor in how useful the iPad app is. Glitches/error codes to not indicate the file that is causing the error. If not found right away, this makes errors almost impossible to fix without downloading a file format of the database and significant amounts of time. This things should be easy and reasonable to fix/implement but Mendeley does not seem interested in these improvements anymore. Been coasting since they bought the original program.

Desktop App is very useful, mobile app...not so much

Comrade Rat

The App won’t sync with changes I’ve made to my desktop app, even when I manually tell it to. As a result I’m stuck dealing with an outdated local copy of my files on my phone, and an up to date cloud copy accessible by my online account and my desktop. Also, as far as I can tel there is no literature search on mobile (that or it’s very well hidden). Two stars may be generous :/

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