EndNote Reviews

The lack of a good iOS app had moved me away from the gold standard of reference apps, which is this app.
To my surprise this app has made a great come back! Specifically:
1) iPhone app
2) great integration with pubmed and google scholar and easy downloading of citations
3) create temporary citations, which in conjunction with this app web allow for a 100% iOS workflow to create bibliography on scientific articles. WOW!
4) the PDFs of the references can be shared and are not locked in inside EndNote

There are a couple more things that if they get incorporated, then they would improve even more the great experience. These things in order of perceived (by me) complexity are:
1) allow the customization of the info that gets presented about an article. Specifically I don’t like that I have to “dig in” to find my research notes about an article, I would like them to show up on the top
2) allow for subgroup creation
3) allow the PDFs to be accessed by files app
4) automatic citation creation for newly imported PDFs (similar to what the desktop app does)
5) automatic download of PDFs (similar to what the desktop app does)

The overall use of EndNote is great. The improvements in pdf annotation and support for Apple Pencil are a life changer.
I do most of my readings on the iPad and manage my library on the Mac app, which is really slow compared to the iOS version. However, a really important feature is not present in the iOS version. How to filter and/or change the read flag for a reference. Once I read, and annotate the document on the iPad, and sync my libraries, on the desktop app the reference still is flagged as unread. The same on the iPad is not trivial to find out which references I read or not. That’s the only reason of not given EndNote a 5 star.

I think EndNote works great in conjunction with the desktop version. In fact, the desktop could do with some updating to be on par with EndNote in terms of sleek UI and intuitive operations. That said, I have had quite a lot of issues in terms of syncing with the desktop in the past and the library taking a really long time to update. At the moment, EndNote is unusable to me because it will not get past the ‘indexing references’ stage upon start up. It crashes at 88% every time.

EndNote is very handy for reading and highlighting collected papers. However, on a faceID enabled iPhone (no home button) the swipe from the bottom gesture to switch screens causes pages to be changed when viewing attached documents. This is because of the close proximity of the page selection element to the bottom of the screen. Having the pages change unintentionally is not ideal.

I switched to this app because Mendeley discontinued their app. I am very disappointed. I have spent more time online with customer support than using EndNote . The customer service is poor, too. They told me I could not do things that, with some time, I was able to figure out on my own. I have uninstalled and reinstalled EndNote here and on my computer many times at their direction; it has not resolved issues. Even when not dealing with the problems, it is not nearly as user friendly as Mendeley was. I will be asking for a refund. This has been a waste of time.

EndNote greatly extends the usefulness of DESKTOP this app into the mobile domain. Annotation of pdf is greatly improved in version 3.0, so EndNote now earns 5 stars from me.
One request to the developers: moving a ref between groups is not intuitive on the iPad (it is very intuitive in the desktop version). Can you implement drag and drop?
BTW - Telephone support by the developer is first rate.

This is a great app for organizing literature references and syncing with the desktop application, which I use to insert references as I write. Mostly, I find I use the iPad app for reading and annotating PDF references. For this purpose, the tools need to be improved, particularly when using the Apple Pencil. It is nearly impossible to use the pencil to jot comments in the margins of articles as the settings don’t permit the fine handwriting control that is the norm with most note-taking apps. Improvement is needed.

The this app desktop software is almost universally used in the scientific academic environment. However, while Ipad Pros are increasingly used as portable laptops, the use of this app on these devices remains dreadfully useless. Although this app Ipad app is a nice PDF viewer, it does under-utilizes the power provided by the Ipad pro. If CWYW were developed to use with both Pages and MS Word, EndNote would jump to the top.

My this app x9 for iPad 3.0 has continuously crashed whenever I markup the pdf and then try to then re-update/ upload the revised pdf onto my online account. Additionally, both the photo / screen shot incorporation to a pdf as well as the AirDrop function are also crashing the system (though all three of these functions worked just fine on the last x8 on my iPad Pro). Unfortunately, Im 2,500 articles committed to this system (given an institutional account) but would love for a competitor to give me equal referencing/ OS markup handling & I’d joyfully switch!

I love using this app in desktop environments, but always felt like the iPad experience was left lacking, and I would use other apps for reading and markup. This update has changed that perspective completely for me! The download/upload speeds are incredible, and I’m pretty happy with the annotation tools (But would still like to see a better text selection tool for easy highlighting). Great update!

There have been considerable improvement. The option to sync the database without PDFs made it much faster. This way I can download only those I need. Sometimes it is a bit slow, but compared to previous versions, it’s much better now.

With version 2 of the iOS this app app for iPad, I was very satisfied, I used it a lot in conjunction with the Laptop version for Mac. But with version 3.0, I am stunned to find that several basic procedures are now significantly more complicated than in version 2.0! Instead of a simple drag-and-drop, placing a reference into a group now requires several taps; and the same is true of adding a pdf to a reference. I simply cannot imagine why these changes have been made, they make no sense at all and are incredibly annoying.

They've now added nearly full functionality of the desktop program into the iPad which is what I've wanted for years! Thank you! Hopefully you get some additional good reviews for your hard work.

This could have been a great product, if only they cared about functionality. They have limited this product to basic functionality and does not work too well with the desktop version. The temporary citations cannot be found when attempting to convert them on the desktop. Best method for this is to simply do it manually. Most schools force people to pay for this app because they provide for it in Technology Fees. This is the only reason why this app is still around.

I was happy to see this come to iPhone as I was not going to buy an iPad for a specific piece of software. I have an iPhone 8 Plus and the screen is plenty large enough to serve as a good portable tool for my graduate school tasks.

The only issue I have found is that EndNote crashes when I try to link my OneDrive account.

While I appreciate Apple Pencil integration, the PDF annotation abilities are kludgy at best. At times annotations duplicate themselves randomly. I would love to see an eraser (sometimes the undo button stops working!), as well as different profiles for highlighters and pens- I never seem to want to write notes in the same thickness I need to highlight text. I don’t find the UI intuitive at all, and have to go to my desktop to find and import all references and PDFs.

Syncs the citations just fine but constantly crashes when trying to import the pdf attachments (3.4 gb library, 80 gb free on iPad). I use this app both as a reference manager and organizer/reader for my pdf library so without the ability to sync both citations and pdf attachments EndNote is of limited use. Also note no CWYW support for iPad word processors so final insert of citations and creation of formatted Reference requires a desktop/laptop.

Bookends on IOS and MacOS is the best reference manager with every feature you can imagine. Reading all other reviews seeing what people say can be improved makes my mind scream bookends by sonny software. If you don’t use bookends then good luck with your research.

The this app App’s “this app Click” feature/extension still lacks Safari support, years after its release. This is extremely disappointing and makes for a poor user experience for the large proportion of researchers who use Safari and are either unable or unwilling to use an alternative browser.

this app developers, please do right by your users and implement proper support for Safari.

However, it would be quicker if group folders were organized according to the desktop organization. I am unsure why I spend the trouble organizing the references into 'group sets' only to have it divided into individual groups on the iPad.

This could have been a great product, if only they cared about functionality. They have limited this product to basic functionality and does not work too well with the desktop version. The temporary citations cannot be found when attempting to convert them on the desktop. Best method for this is to simply do it manually. Most schools force people to pay for this app because they provide for it in Technology Fees. This is the only reason why this app is still around.

EndNote only syncs self-added literatures but can’t either open or edit shared library by others which is not fully functional. Hope the shared library can be accessed in the future version.