Elsevier eBooks+ User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience36.6% of reviews
Neutral19.5% of reviews
Negative experience43.9% of reviews

~ Based on 41 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Elsevier eBooks+ Safe?

Elsevier eBooks+ appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Elsevier eBooks+ is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 1,631 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

94.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,367 App Store ratings for Elsevier eBooks+.

Is Elsevier eBooks+ Legit?

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

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

Top reviews

Medical Physiology

Essential understanding of protein structure and physiology

General feedback

The navigation through topics is treamlined but sometimes with glitches ending up with jumping pages when in the scroll mode. I also wish if there was an underline and annotation function that I can visually see on the page without having to open a dialogue box

Extremely slow and bugged

I had to replace the great Inkling app with this clunky nonsense due to a phone change. What a shame! This takes 10x longer to load a chapter from a preloaded book, so not even a download or connection issue. To load a book takes absolute ages. I have one of the flagship phones so again - this IS an app issue. After forking out 100s for Elsevier books to have this level of app functionality in 2026 is ridiculous. Fix it or scrap it and go back to Inkling for the sake of your customers
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Confusion

Sign in process and access cumbersome

Netter’s digital Anatomy Flashcards

Can’t use the digital Flashcards. The formatting doesn’t work on my iPad or cellphone. This completely defeats the purpose of having the digital item. The Flashcards are half hidden on the screen, the white words blend with the white background so you can’t see what you’ve clicked on. It doesn’t scroll and the only way around it is to go out of the app and back in between every card. Biggest pain in the behind I’ve ever had for an app. None of which can be fixed by adjusting the formatting in the app settings. Yikes.
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‘STILL AN AWESOME APP’

I love my reference textbooks and Elsevier gives me rapid access to my reference texts, downloadable and portable…great way to take my Library with me on short long trips, with whatever device I decide to take with me. Kudos once again Elsevier!!!!!

Rudimentary rubbish

The search function is HORRIFIC. It’s only smart enough to search for ONE WORD. Do better Elsevier. Please test your product with someone who uses it.

Opening book crashes on latest iOS

Book won’t open seemingly since latest iOS update. App just crashes

Need dictionaries for other languages

Translator function needed

Histology and Cell Biology: An Introduction to Pathology 6/e

Several chapters contain significant errors in the placement and sequence of figures compared to the printed book, which makes reading too difficult.

Missing one IMPORTANT feature,

which is the ability to underline text! This is available in most PDF platforms, and Elsevier eBooks+ should not be the exception

Glitchy

Its glitchy sometimes and it does not allow to search for specific words.

Doctor

Software can be improved.

Better voice

Excellent way to read. I wish the voice reading was more natural.

Student / Study friendly

My favorite part about this app feature is highlighting and note taking options. As I re-read it allows me to review my own personal notes.

Unable to view images/tables

So while it is great to be able to read textbooks on phone, I am unable to enlarge tables. Often texts in tables are indiscernible and ultimately useless.

Useless. Zero stars.

I used the previous Inkling app to access my medical text books. This current format is useless for me.
As a physician, I need to be able to access sections quickly. Needing to scroll to find something I need is useless.
I am not able to view tables because the print is microscopic with now way to zoom in.
I could not even look at emergency medication dosing tables.
My online books are now useless to me.
I would use the Inkling app that I had on my phone, but it will no longer display the chapter content.
I continued to think that I had the wrong app.
My textbooks and reference materials are USELESS to me now.
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The app truly enhances content

I rarely went to the Elsevier webpage for my netter’s digital content, with so many anatomy app options it wasn’t a user friendly resource of choice. This app changes the Netters Anatomy experience. The plates are easy to navigate, the test yourself function levels up the experience and I’m now turning to Netters more often and appreciating the level of detail.
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Better off buying the physical textbooks

For some stupid reason the app likes to put figures at the end of the textbook chapters instead of mixed in. So if you want to see a figure when it’s mentioned, you have to scroll to the end of the chapter and then scroll back where you were to start reading again. It makes reading anything you need to understand pictures or figures for incredibly time consuming
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Positioning still not fixed

Margins are still very narrow despite changing settings, and titles are overlayed on text. There is no pinch to zoom, and page will reset to original position moments after moving it to read text or see figure in narrow view window.

Almost unusable. “Paginated view” is nothing of the sort. Wish they would bring back inkling,that platform was MUCH more user friendly!
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