# Prime: PubMed Journals & Tools — user reviews

> 159 indexed App Store user reviews of Prime by Unbound Medicine, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 690 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prime-pubmed-journals-and-tools/id554157746/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prime-pubmed-journals-and-tools/id554157746.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 607 · 4★ 57 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 10

## What do users think of Prime?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Great app for resources and information
- 🚀 Quick and easy access to PubMed database
- 🔍 Useful for research and staying up-to-date
- 💡 Helpful grapherence feature to track citations
- 👍 User-friendly interface and workflow

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional crashes or glitches
- 📱 Limited functionality on iPad (no PDF saving/sharing)
- 🔍 Difficulty performing complex searches
- 💾 No way to save or manage PDFs within the app

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Abstracts cut off and unable to scroll
- Crashes on certain devices (iPad 3, iOS 8.4)
- Duplicate papers appearing in reading lists

**Most requested features**

- Ability to open PDFs in external apps
- Option to delete irrelevant items from saved lists
- Faster article loading times
- Integration with Dropbox or other cloud storage
- Advanced search functionality (e.g., author + abstract)

## Newest reviews (19 of 159)

### 4/5 — Great

*2024-01-13, version 2.12*

Great

### 5/5 — So amazingly helpful with research

*2022-03-11*

Love this app

**Developer response:** Thank you very much!

### 5/5 — Dzaan

*2022-02-20, version 2.9*

Magaria

### 5/5 — Excellent tool

*2021-12-08*

Easy to use and useful.

**Developer response:** We're happy to hear this excellent tool is useful to you! Thank you for your positive review.

### 5/5 — Greatest ever

*2021-08-26*

Can’t stop using app

**Developer response:** We love hearing that - thank you so much! And no reason to stop, we'll continue to update it as you go. Thanks again!

### 5/5 — Great, but grapherence doesn’t work on my iOS devices anymore

*2021-06-28, version 2.8*

I have enjoyed using Prime for at least five years now. One of its most useful options is its grapherence program. However, for the last several months to a year I have not been able to see grapherence results on either my iPhone or iPad. I don’t think it’s a specific setting, in that the problem occurred when freshly downloaded onto a new device. Have others had this problem? If so, is there a fix? It still works in my window-based PC.

**Developer response:** Edit, 8/6/21.  Hello and thank you for being a longtime customer. We are sorry to hear you're having trouble with the Grapherence feature. We've just tried reproducing the problem ourselves and have not been able to. Would you mind contacting our Support team so we may better help resolve the issue? You can reach us by phone (M-F, 9AM-5PM) at 610-627-9090, by email: support@unboundmedicine.com , or by chat (through our website support page). Thank you!

### 5/5 — Essential app

*2020-06-02*

I cannot praise this app enough. Instead of emails, Twitter or active searching, I come here to know what has been published in the journals I regularly keep an eye on. This is my “Neurology Daily Newspaper”. The only thing that it needs to be perfect is to be able to open the references in a web browser like Safari. This would allow going to the source and downloading or reading the article. Although you can read the articles that are free text within the app, the display is small. Despite this room for improvement, I am grateful to the designers. It’s one of my favourite apps and certainly the best to keep me updated on what is being published. As I said, I can’t praise it enough.

### 3/5 — 好用但是不人性化

*2020-05-09*

检索是跟pubmed一样的数据库，比较全，但是免费全文文章也不能下载很不方便

### 5/5 — Excelente

*2020-05-05*

Muito bom com artigos novos a todo momento. Parabéns

### 5/5 — Useful for Tracking specific health concern

*2020-04-08*

This app provides access to journals from around the world. Prime helps me understand more about choices that need to be made. 

Be kind to yourself. Nobody can do it all. Caregivers must take care of themselves first.

**Developer response:** Great advice, especially during these trying times. Thanks for using the app and posting your review.  Also, thanks for the work you do during this ongoing crisis.

### 5/5 — 好用

*2020-03-22*

搜索，阅读，标记，收藏都很好用，良心产品

### 3/5 — 很好的软件

*2020-03-21*

非常喜欢实用的软件就是有时不好用

### 4/5 — 文献查找和管理

*2020-02-22*

好用！如果能够下载pdf，就更好了！

### 2/5 — There is no way to save PDFs or view them with another app on iPad

*2020-02-13*

There is no way to save PDFs or view them with another app on iPad

**Developer response:** Users may save articles in a variety of formats using the "Share" function within the application.  If you are having trouble saving articles as PDFs, please contact our Support team for assistance.

### 5/5 — One of the best apps for researches

*2020-01-15*

The app is easy to follow and keeps me up to date with all the gazillion journals I’m following on a daily basis. 

The app would have been perfect if:
1. It was faster to navigate. It takes some time to load articles from a journal. I wish it would load much faster. 

2. To include a PubMed link to the article and not just the PubMed article’s ID number. This way it’s much easier to share articles with colleagues.    

Thanks 🙏

**Developer response:** We are glad to hear that you are enjoying the app! The speed with which the articles load can vary depending on the user's network connection and device hardware. Also, you can share directly from the app in a variety of formats using the "Share" function within each entry.

### 5/5 — So easy!

*2019-12-07*

So much easier to use than PubMed, complete searches

### 5/5 — 阅读医学文献的好途径！

*2019-10-03*

很多文献都能顺利读到全文，分类标签也容易。只是有些文章阅读原文太贵了。

### 5/5 — Nice app

*2019-09-19*

This works very nicely to search and display full text. Price is right, too!

### 5/5 — 非常不错

*2019-09-14*

非常不错

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Bad

*2021-01-31*

I can’t create my account

### 1/5 — Not working

*2017-10-12*

I can’t able to sign up using app..

### 1/5 — Crashes right away after this update

*2017-03-15, version 2.2*

This app is not usable.  I am running iOS 8.4.  Can't use it at all.

### 1/5 — Crashes on iPad 3

*2017-03-04, version 2.1*

Crashes immediately on open, despite re-installing. Used to be a 4-5 star app before crashing.

### 1/5 — Ошибка входа

*2016-12-01*

Выкидывает из программы

### 1/5 — Does not function

*2016-10-29, version 2.0*

App is really glitchy, upon tapping to view an article an ERROR message appears and it does not works. Trying to adjust my account and ERROR message - does not work! Tried searching for an article ERROR. This is a waste of time.

### 1/5 — require to create account！

*2016-02-26, version 1.10*

dont think thats nessary

### 1/5 — Amazingly frustrating

*2016-01-02, version 1.10*

Over an hour ago, I googled a medical interplay between two related diseases and their joined side effects.  The "most related" article included a link to this website, so I hit on the link and arrived to the site to be told I needed to both install the app and become a member.  Because of the relevance of the article, I joined.  After doing so, I tried to access the article.  I used the same call words, the authors names, less pointed wording and finally, actually pulled sentences from the apps own descriptive paragraph linking me to the site in the first place.  NOTHING HAS WORKED.  So, having wasted more than an hour on my life I decided to act the Good Samaritan and save you the efforts I out laid. But, here's the thing!
After I wrote the bad review, originally entitled "awful" I was told my nickname was already used and then my whole review disappeared. This time I copied it first and will keep trying nicknames til I find one it will allow!!

### 1/5 — Could only see abstract

*2015-06-08, version 1.10*

Found the citation, but only pulled up abstract. How do I get full article?  In this new internet age, medical and scientific information should be available to all - especially since as a taxpayer I probably paid for most of the research.

### 1/5 — Account needed = Fail

*2015-02-10, version 1.10*

Why do I need to create an account to search Medline? Stupid!

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Excellence

*2026-06-11*

Excellente application Brillant !! Useful handy tool for daily use!

**Developer response:** Thank you for the kind review!

### 5/5 — Prof. Dr (MD, PhD)

*2026-04-02*

Useful & Pertinent

**Developer response:** Hello and thank you for your 5-Star rating of our Prime PubMed app - we're happy to hear you're finding it useful!

### 5/5 — GREAT APP

*2025-11-15*

This app is great for resources and to have further information!

**Developer response:** We are very happy to hear you're enjoying our Prime PubMed app, especially for finding the most up-to-date information across many resources. Thank you for sharing your experience!

### 5/5 — Very helpful

*2025-03-13*

It was difficult to search individually the required articles and here it has been made easily available with full magazine freely available.

**Developer response:** Thank you very much for taking the time to share your thoughts about Prime PubMed! We love hearing that it's making things easier for you!

### 5/5 — Super schnell

*2024-10-13*

Schnelle Artikelsuche. Gute Exportfunktion. Eigene Quellen können hinzugefügt werden. Bisher sehr gut.

**Developer response:** We appreciate your feedback and especially that you're finding the tools within Prime so useful.  Thank you again for your review! Danke!

### 5/5 — Só falta uma coisa

*2024-09-30*

Excelente aplicativo. Poderia ser melhor ainda se permitisse salvar ou enviar por e-mail os textos integrais acessados. Isso pode ser feito nos abstracts, por que não nos pdf?

**Developer response:** Hello and thank you for your 5-Star review. We also appreciate your feedback and suggestion.  Once you click on one of your search results, you'll find a series of tools at the top of the page, right above the blue heading.  The first tool allows you to share your results via email and to share via social media. You can also download a PDF of your results (depending on the subscription requirements to the Journal). We hope this information helps! Our support team is here to assist if you need further guidance on downloading articles: support@unboundmedicine.com or 610-627-9090 (M-F, 9-5 EST)

### 5/5 — Best App On My Phone

*2024-03-18*

Kind of like having the Library of Alexandria (of health) available at the touch of a fingertip on your phone. I spent years searching pubmed… but this app has made my amateur health fact-finding adventures more enjoyable, productive, and fast. I can go and do things in four or five or six other apps, and then come back to this app, and it still is in the exact same place where I left it, whether a search, a paper pdf, or whatever. My Apple iPhone Podcast App doesn’t even do that! A+

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your glowing review! We're absolutely thrilled to hear that our app has become your go-to resource for health information, making your fact-finding adventures not only more enjoyable but also more productive and efficient. It's fantastic to know that our app's stability and user-friendly design, especially in retaining your place across sessions, stands out to you—even compared to other apps on your device. If there's anything more we can do to support your journey or enhance your experience, please don't hesitate to reach out. Your A+ rating means the world to us, and we look forward to continuing to serve as your trusted health information companion.

### 5/5 — Great research tool!

*2023-12-11*

I have enjoyed using Prime for at least seven years now. One of its most useful options is its grapherence program.  It allows me to look at the abstracts of articles upon which the title I am reading are based AND any articles that have subsequently referred referred to that same title.  I can also get some idea as to the influence of a given reference by the number of articles that refer back to it.

**Developer response:** Edit, 1/3/24.  Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We're incredibly grateful for your continued support over the last seven years and are thrilled to hear how much you've enjoyed using Prime, especially the grapherence feature. Your detailed feedback is not only appreciated but also instrumental in helping us understand what features our users value the most. We are committed to continually enhancing our app to meet the needs of our dedicated users like you.

### 5/5 — Fabulous app.

*2023-11-07*

Everything you need tailored to your areas of specialization!

**Developer response:** Thank you for sharing your 5 star review!

### 5/5 — Easy

*2023-09-26*

Quick and simple way to get desired information from the PubMed database.

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