Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience16.3% of reviews
Neutral6.5% of reviews
Negative experience77.1% of reviews

~ Based on 153 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource

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 9,365 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,336 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 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Poor APP

I downloaded my copy of the Braunwald’s Heart Disease, used it for a week. All of a sudden, the book dissappeared from the app. Following the instructions for re installment has been to no avail, even inserting the code. Taljk about a blunder.

Behind on tech

The audio is disastrous. It does not have a natural flow like an actual human. You have an option of like 10 voices and they all sound like keyboard robots. COME ON. ChatGPT and Claude and all these other AI apps actually sounds like a person reading and are easy on the ears and able to understand.. The read aloud option is garbage.
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What’s with the audio??

I could never listen to this on the go. The voice is so outdated and robotic. It’s ridiculous for the price I paid for this etextbook along with everyone else.

Read aloud are ridiculous

These books are not cheap and they come with the most ludicrous read along voices I’ve ever heard. I can’t even listen to them on the ride to class or else I’ll get a migraine

Can’t go negative stars. Doesn’t keep your place

Horrible program and doesn’t work well with modern studying. Can’t copy or print or use ai for explaining topics. Bad doesn’t even do justice to explain this app.

app laggy

app freezes and crashes a lot

Read aloud voices

The read aloud feature is ok, it will read the references in the paragraphs which is annoying. Also the voice choices are terrible.

Read aloud OUTDATED

It’s 2026 - why is the voice still sound like MS DOS old school Microsoft robotic voice?

1990 Style

This is horrible compared to the (now defunct) Inkling. Embarrassing that they would put out such a product. Difficult to navigate, images do not appear in line with text, and menu system is amateurish

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