Rayyan’s Decline: Increasing Costs, Decreasing Usability
Rayyan has become quite frustrating to use. Even with a Pro subscription, many features still require additional institutional access or extra payments, which limits the overall experience.
Additionally, they now impose screening limits for users without a paid plan, making it much harder for new researchers or collaborators to use the platform effectively.
Overall, what used to be a simple and accessible tool now feels overly restricted and heavily monetized.
Additionally, they now impose screening limits for users without a paid plan, making it much harder for new researchers or collaborators to use the platform effectively.
Overall, what used to be a simple and accessible tool now feels overly restricted and heavily monetized.
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Doesn’t work on iPhone
Keeps displaying a message saying doesn’t work on iPhone (I have an iPhone 16 up to date etc), says to download the app. I was on the app… and takes me back to the app store to this app (which I have installed), so not worth the download because can’t do anything!
Title and abstract mismatch
Premium - offline: title/abstract mismatch. Manual refresh resolves it.
como siempre, o pagas o nada.
No sé qué han hecho que ya no te permiten hacer nada de forma gratuita desde dispositivos ipad.
Recurrent Technical and Workflow Challenges
Several recurring issues are significantly affecting usability. Reviews periodically disappear, and the blinding functionality prevents reviewers from using shared tag sets, resulting in duplicate or inconsistent tags across the team. The platform also offers no way to pre-define exclusion reasons for reviewers to select during screening, which makes the process unnecessarily cumbersome. In addition, full-text screening is still inaccessible from the mobile app, limiting the app’s usefulness to the very early stages of the review. Given these limitations, we have not proceeded with data extraction within the platform.
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