# PubMed On Tap — user reviews > 108 indexed App Store user reviews of PubMed On Tap by ReferencesOnTap, rated 4.80/5 from 1,017 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pubmed-on-tap/id301316540/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pubmed-on-tap/id301316540.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 863 · 4★ 115 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of PubMed On Tap? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 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! **Cons** - 🐛 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 **Commonly reported bugs** - Your application does not open on my ipad after download - Crashes on load/run every time, even after reset and/or reinstallation **Most requested features** - Ability to save favorite search words - Ability to highlight parts of abstract text - Option to sort the library by author, date, publication type - Option to create more than one library within the app - Option to save search history for future retrieval - Option of folders for easy paper organization - Safari or Zotero integration ## Newest reviews (10 of 108) ### 4/5 — PubMed: great resource to see-find research *2019-11-17* Great resource to see-find research on clinical studies of drug - human malady remedies. ### 4/5 — Kids tyytbikutttttttgbbywlwswdulpp *2019-07-04, version 2.12* U hymn junujugytyygkkhhygoohtgtu ### 3/5 — Great for collecting references but no backup *2019-01-30, version 2.10* 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 ### 2/5 — Not list all for the pubmed publications *2019-01-14* Not list the all publications from author/authors ### 4/5 — Great App for researcher *2018-07-04* Very much useful and helpful to me. ### 3/5 — 良いです *2018-03-04* 愛用してます。この値段でこの機能は便利です ### 3/5 — Pubmed on tap 3,99$ *2016-11-30, version 2.9* Your application does not open on my ipad after download ### 5/5 — Très bien *2016-10-18* Très pratique pour les recherches rapides ou dans son canapé. Fait tout ce qu'on peut espérer de ce type d'app. ### 4/5 — 从itunes上加载的pdf全文在app找不到？ *2016-09-11* 总体使用还可以 基本等同浏览器查阅 但想作为归类总结文献的工具而言还是差一些，希望可以手动加载原文全文，但不晓得为何在电脑上从itunes添加的pdf全文，在ipad打开app时找不到pdf全文在哪里？如果找到后，能否和之前查询的文献进行关联？ ### 3/5 — Folder missing *2016-08-08* Fantastic app but folder option in saved file would save a life . ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 開けないので返金していただきたいです *2023-01-26* 検索できません **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Does not work. Does not search pubmed *2021-05-10, version 2.14* 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. ### 1/5 — Useless - Can’t select best match *2020-11-15* 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. **Developer response:** Currently the “Best Match” sort option isn’t available with the PubMed API requests. We add this option if/when it's made available. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2020-11-13* Waste of money Better off search google than this Try DynaMed You will get no results with searches **Developer response:** Please contact our tech support and we'll figure out what is going on with your searches. ### 1/5 — Ok *2020-03-04, version 2.13.1* Would benefit enormously if it had 'related citations' ability to bring up related articles as in the Pubmed website thus it's just OK. ### 1/5 — Developer Out of Business? *2019-12-10* 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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Is it paid *2019-09-14* 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 **Developer response:** Yes, it's a one-time purchase app. The price is shown right on the app page on the App Store. ### 1/5 — 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 *2019-06-03* 很垃圾，千万不要买 **Developer response:** Please contact our tech support and we'll figure out what is going on. ### 1/5 — Mobile vs Desktop? *2018-12-13* 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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Crashing on my iPad mini 2 *2016-11-27* Not working on iPad mini2 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great *2023-01-21* Great resource ### 5/5 — Superb! *2022-08-10* Easy to collect vital information and stock it in a useful way. ### 5/5 — excelent *2020-04-10, version 2.13.1* Excelente ### 5/5 — Excelente p médicos *2019-10-03* Excelente! ### 5/5 — 不错👍 *2019-08-04* 还行 ### 5/5 — Excellent access to PubMed *2019-03-24* 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. ### 5/5 — Very handy *2018-04-12, version 2.10* Really easy to use ### 5/5 — Handy App *2018-02-24* I like the ease of the app ### 5/5 — Excellent.... but room for improvement *2017-12-17, version 2.10* Great app, why not functionality that allows favorite search words to be saved to expedite searches ### 5/5 — Excellent *2016-12-19, version 2.9.1* And improving. Great viewer for research! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*