Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience17.4% of reviews
Neutral6.9% of reviews
Negative experience75.7% of reviews

~ Based on 144 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource Safe?

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 8,808 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 8,233 App Store ratings for Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource.

Is Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource Legit?

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Usability difficult

Why if I accidentally touch one side of the screen, it sends me to a completely random page while on continuous scroll?? I also can’t highlight to look to define a word anymore, only highlight or add a note. I wish there was a feature where you could read without being able to click all the hyperlinks. I just want to stay on one page at a time while reading…
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Page Flickering for Lippincott

My page keep flickering for my lippincott books only

Garbage app

Full of bugs.

Crashes on iOS 26

Still waiting for an update to this

Horrible

Do not buy anything on this app. I bought an ebook for a class and they do not let you download it to your iPad, it says download but it doesn’t work. Now i can’t take notes on it and there aren’t any options to write on the books with an Apple Pencil. Worst app ever, worst company ever.

A student

A well known publisher should have a better app the resemble his name

Takes too long to load sometimes and it’s just laggy

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Constantly losing track of where you are in the text.

This app is not user friendly. It randomly quits and then will lose where you left off in the text. I use this app so that I don’t have to read my textbook and can listen to it when driving/ other tasks, but when it constantly loses its place I have to scroll until I find where I was in the reading. This causes immense frustration. I gave it a chance thinking that perhaps it was not going to be a routine issue but it’s now continuing to happen quite frequently and it has cased me enough frustration to leave a 1 star review. This app seriously lacks in comparison to Pearson +.
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Worst app

This is the WORST APP in the history of apps! Makes students’ life even harder than it is!

Good

The app is good and easy to use, however the voice reading could be less robotic, it’s really difficult to absorb the context

Bugs

After the new update, the bugs are worse. I have to constantly shut the app down and sign out

Don’t like the design change

I most definitely don’t like what y’all changed about the app. Before the update I was able to just swipe left or right to go the next chapter but know I have to scroll down and press the “jump to next”. That’s doing to much.

4 stars where?

Can’t even log in yet I type the same exact thing onto the webpage and it’s fine

The best

I love ELSEVIER 10x better than you know which one consists of 3 letters

Nursing book

Terrible… there’s a new update that doesn’t allow you access to the book. I’m sorry , I have an exam in a few day I need to view my book. There’s so much wrong with this book , I don’t have enough characters to express the issues. If you can find a free pdf do so

Can’t even Login

I can log in everywhere except for the app, it tells me email or password is wrong. Except it’s not.

Not User-Friendly

Honestly this app is not user-friendly and does not allow you to adjust from continuous scrolling to flipping through pages like a normal e-book should. The app itself is very confusing to use, and there are no easy ways of highlighting and annotating text if you are on an iPad. The purpose of an e-book would be able to annotate and write comments directly in the margins with this app you can’t do that so if you are looking to purchase a e-book, I suggest other alternatives like purchasing a pdf to import into a note taking app.
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Read Aloud

I prefer to listen and read along when I study and the read aloud feature is honestly awful. The voices are distracting and they struggle to read certain medical terms. Please consider upgrading the voices or partnering with a company that has an advanced read aloud feature.

Pictures won’t zoom in

The point of me downloading this app is to be able to access my ebooks more easily but without zooming into the pictures small details are not understandable

Student

An excellent study tool on the go!