# References On Tap — user reviews > 12 indexed App Store user reviews of References On Tap by ReferencesOnTap, rated 4.70/5 from 304 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/references-on-tap/id1092709557/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/references-on-tap/id1092709557.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 238 · 4★ 45 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 3 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What Support? *2023-05-16* I downloaded the app for my new Mac Mini. I attempted to initiate a search only to receive notification of an SSL error. I clicked on their support link. There isn't any active support. Rather, I got information about the iOS app which I do not have. I clicked on the User Manual link and received information about and it was also about the iOS version. I would love to use this app on my Mac but so far that doesn't seem likely. ### 1/5 — Not intuative *2020-05-29* No "Help". So, can't figure out ho to use it. I understand its concept, but as there isn't any help to get started, for me, it was a waste of time. ### 1/5 — 重复购买？ *2017-12-16* 我在iPad上已经买了30元的无限制的版本，为什么iPhone还提示要买？不应该同一个Apple账号通用吗？ **Developer response:** Please do Restore Purchases from the In-App Purchases screen. ### 1/5 — It won't download *2017-05-09* And now I can't even use PubMed on Tap 1. So thanks. Thanks so much. **Developer response:** Please contact our tech support and we'll figure out what is going on. ### 2/5 — New app loses previously paid features *2018-08-30* I previously paid $9.99 for PubMed Tap to maximize the app’s features. With the new app, I’ve lost those features and am now relegated to ads, etc, unless I pay more. Those that paid to streamline PubMed Tap should not have to pay again. **Developer response:** If you are talking about Bookends On Tap for $9.99 it was removed from the App Store two years ago. Please do a search for Bookends app on the App Store. New features of Bookends for iOS are: • Cloud Sync. • Citation creation. • Updated pdf engine with greatly improve Apple Pencil support. • Split screen support on iPad. • Barcode scanning. • Google Scholar Advanced Search. • Amazon Books search engine • iPhone X support. • Speed and UI improvements. ### 3/5 — Can’t access website for user guide *2026-01-05* It sure would be great to be able to SORT my results. If there’s a way to do it, it’s not apparent in the app and trying to access the user guide at Referencesontap.com, the Cloudflare handshake always fails. Using the free version on my phone that never was an issue since results are limited to 20 hits per search. But now that I paid for the full version, I have to wade through hundreds of hits. "narrow your search terms” is not always the best way to discover new information, so ability to SORT would be great. Heck, just access to the user guide, and I could go from there. ### 4/5 — Almost perfect but not quite -- Hope the developer adds more functionality *2022-05-07* The App is pretty good to find papers on arxiv and quickly organize your reading. There are some serious missing functionalities which can really improve the user experience, such as : 1. The inability to export the references: Currently there is no way to export the groups to a bib file, you may "share" individual papers via notes and the dialog box shows the bib references. But nothing for bulk export. 2. Inability to change where the app stores the downloaded pdfs. It is unclear if the pro version allows users to choose the cloud service, i.e., dropbox, google drive, etc. 3. Inability to add more searchable sites in the basic version. You can only choose to search between the sites listed, there is no way to add more sites. 4. Sorting function can be made available on the main interface. I hope the developer considers these changes, if so I can see myself using this every day. Thanks! ### 5/5 — All good *2019-11-08* Vert impressive ### 5/5 — Schnell, breit aufgestellt *2018-07-28* und differenziert ### 5/5 — Very useful *2018-05-29* Can check publications on the go ## Most praised reviews (2 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — So useful.... *2017-12-27* A must to have in each iPad..... ### 5/5 — 还可以，适合简单的检索 *2017-10-07* 还可以 --- *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 2026-08-31.*