Cite It Now User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience36.7% of reviews
Neutral6.7% of reviews
Negative experience56.7% of reviews

~ Based on 30 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Cite It Now Safe?

Cite It Now: Easy referencing appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Cite It Now is 87/100.

This assessment is based on 217 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 217 App Store ratings for Cite It Now.

Is Cite It Now Legit?

Cite It Now: Easy referencing appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cite It Now is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Waste of money

Waste of money

Would Be 5 Stars With Tech Support

I bought this as an elegant, and efficient means to build bibliographies. It really does have a nice interface and automates a lot of the drudgery of building references.

I've run into difficulties with exporting, however, and the link to the designer's page/tech support just goes to a landing page that points back to the app store. So, it's not compatible with Scrivener, I can't realley get my data out of CIN in any usual form, and I paid for lifetime access to the thing.
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Poorly Designed

This app does cite the articles correctly, but it is impossible to copy and paste the cites. When you email them, they are scrambled. They do not have many options of sources to cite and it does not even put the sources in order. Extremely disappointed and a waste of money!

Difficult to Use

This app did not work for me while we were trying to cite some books for my daughters 3rd grade project. Not sure why? We had proper ISBN number, title, author, etc.

Probably had to pay more for it to work.

Terrible

Creates great citations but none of the app functions actually work. Wont export to a PDF, cannot copy to your clipboard, plain text options are filled with coding crap. Absolutely useless, had to hand type my citations regardless. STEER CLEAR.

Does Not Find Any Books by Barcode Scan

Not one book is found when using the scan feature, including books published this year. Have to add everything manually. No help contact available. Denied refund.

doesn’t work

paid for subscription and the export doesn’t work

Worst app for citations. AVOID this app. It is a SCAM!

I DEMAND a full refund! I wasted time and money on this for my project. If I could, I’d give ZERO STARS

Does not help with websites

I signed up for a year. Then I tried using this app for my APA paper. It would not help me with my online references. I thought we had 3 days to cancel. I down graded to the monthly subscription. And now I have 2 subscriptions instead of one that I was already charged for. And the app tells me to change my preferences from the Apple store. It’s not possible.
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Great app but still a few bugs

Love this app how ever there seems to be still a few bugs had issues exporting the folder I created.

Deserves no stars

Makes no sense I paid and Microsoft word does the same thing. Endnote is better

Rip off

Cannot use app unless you pay, don’t waste your time downloading, that let you cite for free on one go and then advised to pay.

Trash

You can’t copy and paste the citations!

Won’t export

I needed to do this report and now I have to re type these manually after I paid for a subscription.

difficult to copy text only citations

To copy text only I had to email it to myself? This is the in text citation generated for a journal article:

In-text: </br></br>(Lamont Moore & Ogrodnik, 1989)</br></br>

It isn’t a simple “Added to you clipboard” copy
It isn’t intuitive to use.

And you cant download the bibliography without a subscription.
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Great APP has major bug!!!!!

The App is great and does pull in most information for citation. Webpages may require some manual manipulation of the Data, but is still better than notion. The ISBN and DOI search function works great. However, There is no way to export the information directly to Word or Copy and Paste the citations too Word or other profile. The option of PDF and RIS do not work for me and no clear guidance how this works. Finally, the export to email Plain Text does not work with MS Outlook. HTML format is not properly converting to what is needed to put into the Word.

Need Copy and Past function to a Word doc would be great improvement to this system. And would raise my 3 star rating to 5 star.
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Confusing

Not able to copy the citations and was only able to make 1 citation before being charged to make more citation. Might as well make people pay for the app before downloading!

Paid but still prompted to subscribe

Thanks for nothing

One subscription per device?

I purchased the subscription while on my iPhone but mainly complete my homework on my iPad. I downloaded the app on both devices thinking that I would be able to shares the citations created on either device as well as the license. It seems that this is not correct. When I attempt to start a new citation on my iPad it asks me to sign up for a subscription but then tells me I already have a subscription. Do I have to have a different subscription for each device that I use or am I forced to create the citations on my phone then email them to my iPad?
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Feature Request

I like this app, but it would be so helpful to be able to copy a citation to my clipboard. It is tedious to launch citations to my email client to copy & paste into my papers. Thank you.

Also, why do you make it impossible to contact you from the app. I am a premium subscriber. I’d expect a little tech support for my fee.
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