PubMed On Tap User Reviews

Name: PubMed On Tap
Rating: 4.8 (1017 reviews)

PubMed On Tap

ReferencesOnTap

🏥 Medical

🔍 Reference

Customer Experience

Positive experience65.7% of reviews

Neutral9.3% of reviews

Negative experience25.0% of reviews

~ Based on 108 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of PubMed On Tap. Based on 1K reviews and a 4.8/5 average, it highlights the 14 positives and 13 negatives reviewers mention most about this Medical app.

Positive things

👍Great resource
👍Excellent access to PubMed
👍Very handy
👍Handy App
👍Excellent
👍Fantastic research tool
👍So useful!
👍Good to have
👍Great if you have EzProxy
👍Just all you need for quick reference
👍Powerful and easy to use
👍Very Good Little App!
👍Great app
👍Fantastic Helper App!

Negative things

🐛Does not work. Does not search pubmed
🐛Useless - Can't select best match
🐛Horrible
🐛Would benefit enormously if it had 'related citations' ability
🐛Developer Out of Business?
🐛Mobile vs Desktop?
🐛Upgrade Ruined
🐛Used to be good ...
🐛What possible excuse...
🐛Update killed the app
🐛Limited. .. Does do complete searches
🐛Don't buy this..
🐛Terrible App

Is PubMed On Tap Safe?

PubMed On Tap appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for PubMed On Tap is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 1,017 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.2% of ratings point to a safe experience

2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns

1.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,017 App Store ratings for PubMed On Tap.

Is PubMed On Tap Legit?

PubMed On Tap appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PubMed On Tap is 90/100.

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

Top reviews

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開けないので返金していただきたいです

検索できません

さけくじら

4 years ago

Response from developer

It works fine here. If you see any problems please write directly to a support email link in the app About menu. It's a preferred way of reporting bugs or sending feature requests.

Great

Great resource

the Therapit

4 years ago

Superb!

Easy to collect vital information and stock it in a useful way.

胡椒島

4 years ago

Does not work. Does not search pubmed

Please refund. Thank you.

Edit 2021-5-10:

Per developer’s response pubmed search does now work to a degree. However, this app is missing some of the most useful features from pubmed including similar articles, cited by, mesh terms, etc. And, while I can tag an article with a color, it doesn’t seem that I can actually save articles with any sort of useful tags / labels. I could be missing something, but I don’t see the point of this app, given that its search capabilities are inferior to the pubmed website and filing capabilities are limited.

Ben Mat.

5 years ago

Useless - Can’t select best match

I downloaded this app after reading some good reviews about it. However, when I opened it, I found that I couldn’t set it to sort the articles in PubMed based on the best match, only as “recently added“ or “publication date”. Probably because of that, the search was horrible at finding a match for my query. Completely useless for me at this point. Very disappointed.

Dan Poliakoff

6 years ago

Response from developer

Currently the “Best Match” sort option isn’t available with the PubMed API requests. We add this option if/when it's made available.

Horrible

Waste of money
Better off search google than this
Try DynaMed
You will get no results with searches

Ta..1978

6 years ago

Response from developer

Please contact our tech support and we'll figure out what is going on with your searches.

excelent

Excelente

anembrionado

6 years ago

Ok

Would benefit enormously if it had 'related citations' ability to bring up related articles as in the Pubmed website thus it's just OK.

Boucher

6 years ago

Developer Out of Business?

This used to be a great app. NCBI has changed their URL and the app no longer connects to PubMed. Efforts to find the developer failed. If you are considering buying this app, think twice.

App Rater 14

7 years ago

Response from developer

It works fine here. If you see any problems please write directly to a support email link in the app About menu. It's a preferred way of reporting bugs or sending feature requests.

PubMed: great resource to see-find research

Great resource to see-find research on clinical studies of drug - human malady remedies.

Codydog777

7 years ago

Excelente p médicos

Excelente!

Dear n1

7 years ago

Is it paid

Is it a paid app....why was I charged Rs 249/-....where is it mentioned that it’s a paid app....I need a refund at the earliest

George Tukalan

7 years ago

Response from developer

Yes, it's a one-time purchase app. The price is shown right on the app page on the App Store.

不错👍

还行

a Alice Wan

7 years ago

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CWRU2013

7 years ago

这个版本不能用，非要我更新版本，然后之前明明买过，说找不到记录

很垃圾，千万不要买

Vicious kk

7 years ago

Response from developer

Please contact our tech support and we'll figure out what is going on.

Excellent access to PubMed

I barely use PubMed in a browser on my computer anymore. This is a very thoughtful and well-designed app. In terms of browsing and reading abstracts it cannot be best - and makes it very easy to do a very quick searches & saving of relevant papers that can be explored more in-depth later. I highly recommend it.

ElegantScience

7 years ago

Great for collecting references but no backup

Great for following along in lectures, pulls references quickly and stores them in folders for your future reference.

However there is no backup and I’ve lost my collection a number of times... thankfully I’m not an academic!

Would be good to hv ability to highlight specific points from the abstract within the app

MelRoadRunnerTan

8 years ago

Not list all for the pubmed publications

Not list the all publications from author/authors

WANNAPORN ITTIPRASERT

8 years ago

Mobile vs Desktop?

Just paid $1.99 for an app that - yes - is mobile friendly, and well organized for the convenience of searching with my phone, but to just get the same results Google provides me on my normal internet browser... I got a list full of articles that only included abstracts, and maybe 5% of them included full text. What am I paying for exactly? I understand that articles are expensive to view at full, but what am I benefiting from with this app, if it does nothing but give me the same results Google does, and doesn’t allow any privileges past viewing an abstract? This app should be free, and paying for articles should be separate, but both? There wasn’t even a detailed disclosure as to what this app had to offer. People want to know what they’re going to get if they’re paying money. $1.99 isn’t much, but I feel like I just got scammed into paying money for an app that doesn’t nothing different for me than what I’m capable of doing without it.

1-800 Frustrated

8 years ago

Response from developer

PubMed is a free resource and the results it provides are the same regardless of how it is accessed. Unlike a browser, PubMed On Tap lets you store the references locally in an easily-readable and format to which you can add your own comments, can search off-line manually or via smart groups, etc. You can also attach PDFs you have permissions for to be read off-line. Many find these features an improvement over a browser. No app allows you unlimited to PDFs, which is restricted independently by each publisher. Access privileges are typically paid for by your university or institution, and cost a tad more than $1.99.