Mendeley (PDF Reader) App Reviews

Hi i cant read my windows synched articles on my ipad. I dont know why! Can you help me?

Papers 3 by Mekentosji. Although that is based on an n of one.

Great annotation tools, seamless sync across devices, great tech support. Keeps me organized and moving forward.

With the Jan 4 update the app no longer crashes when I add a note, but when I try to sync it reports "Sync with errors." Then, when I open the pdf on the OS X desktop app, the highlights and note locations sync successfully, but the notes are blank. That is, the note icon is there, but there is no text.

I use this application religiously for highlighting and notetaking, but the latest update has broken the highlighting functionality for me: it seems to have lost the ability to highlight lines on some of my OCR’d texts. These files previously had no problems and don’t have issues on the desktop app, but on the iPad it cannot highlight continuously. Hopefully the next update reverses whatever change caused this.

Great for viewing articles using different devices when you are on the go. I can start reading on my office PC, move to my iPhone during my commute, and continue reading from my laptop at home.

I heard amazing things about the OS version of this app. However, upon downloading, I realized the annotation features are near useless on scanned PDFs (you cant even highlight), which make up the vast majority of the PDFs I and nearly every academic I know tend to amass. It is possible Im too dense to properly figure it out but, either way, students and professors beware. This app will likely not be what you are looking for (especially if you work in the humanities). Other free PDF readers dont seem to have this problem (e.g. Adobe). So, bummer. Virtually useless. I really wanted to love it.

Very usefull I love it

Research everywhere!!!

I just realized that in the notes area every time I add notes, I lose formatting. My notes all merge into one big blob. Makes it hard to use for this function. But otherwise, like the app.

Update 3/23/2016: The newest update has completely broken the "notes" section! Everything is one long paragraph. Please fix...this makes the iPad app significantly less useful :( I love the desktop version of Mendeley and use it to manage all my references and citations when preparing manuscripts. The iPad app for Mendeley leaves a bit to be desired though. I wish it was easier to annotate PDFs and I find that annotations I make on my iPad sometimes get distorted on the desktop version. I also wish the iPad app had a way to look up references in the app and easily add new references from pubmed or google scholar. But overall it is a good app that works well and doesnt crash - definitely recommended.

Desktop version is great but this app is useless. Its not syncing properly. All of my PDFs are on my desktop but theyre not showing up in the app.

Why cant I see anything on the right side of the screen? What is the purpose of this app if I can see the info??

How is it that Mendeley gets buggier with every update--maintenance or otherwise? The idea for this application is perfect, and the execution, far from it. The latest and greatest errors one can expect from this update: annotations and highlights duplicating and duplicating again, so that one is inundated with many multiples of ones original marks on a document. And, of course, the "notes" section continues to ignore line breaks. Why anyone would pay for this service is beyond me.

Mendeley has become a core compliment of my research practice. Improvements in annotating, categorising and keeping track of literature have helped me streamline and manage my research projects much more effectively than before. Integration issues with RTF-based wordprocessing programs, particularly Apples Pages, keep me from fully utilising Mendeleys powerful writing features (citation management, bibliography generation).