Researcher User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience69.9% of reviews
Neutral11.8% of reviews
Negative experience18.3% of reviews

~ Based on 93 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Researcher Safe?

Researcher: Discover & Discuss appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Researcher is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 195 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.0/5.

Safety Analysis

74.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
18.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 194 App Store ratings for Researcher.

Is Researcher Legit?

Researcher: Discover & Discuss is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Researcher is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

THE best scientific media aggregator I’ve ever seen

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no font size options for the feed?

overall it’s okay but has simple zero features except for saving articles for reading later.

Response from developer

Dear User, The version of the app you are using is 3.33.0 which is an old version. Would request you to update the app to the latest version from App Store or Play store.

App comes back from death

I eliminated the App some months ago, and it keeps coming back every time I turn off my cell phone or run out of battery like some zombie or virus.

Love this app a lot!!

I love this lite but rather critical app! It changed my habit of reading papers and help build my daily routine as a researcher. However, sometime it is really hard to get connected. Could you please maintain it better? Many thanks!

Wow!

Revolutionary!! Best way to keep track of all your academic interests.
Suggestion: Include RSS add option.

Can’t login?!

On the last version it wouldn’t even stay open, it would immediately crash. On this update (3.27.0) it opens but I can’t login. It says “this account does not exist,” but my credentials are correct, I’ve had an account for years, plus still receive emails. It won’t let me send a password reset link either. It keeps saying “please check your internet connection” but my internet is working. So the app is still as useless as last update. :/
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Don’t size too tiny for my young eyes

This app is great for keeping up with new research, but the font size IS SO SMALL. Please allow the font to be changed with Apple’s built in accessibility feature or in the app itself. I’m under 25 and it’s too small even for my eyes!

Need institution access for Chinese university!

Hello, I have used Researcher for two years, but this app doesn’t have an improvement for Chinese institution access. I hope you can accept my advice!

Should allow folders feature to organize the followed journals

I followed a lot of journals, sometimes I want to see a particular journal I follow, it’s hard to find, I have to search it or scroll down for a long time to find it in the followed list. It will be great to allow the user to add folders or subjects to organize the many followed journals. Just like notability app, you have “all notes” page, you can also have “subjects” to organize different content.
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Response from developer

Dear User, we are happy to know that you found our app useful. We are continuously working on adding more features to our app to make your experience better and have shared your feature suggestion with the product team. If you need any support, please feel free to email us at info@researcher-app.com. Thanks, Maria

Love keeping up with the new journals

Incredible app. Thank you so much for your time and effort.

The updated app doesn't open anymore

I like this app but unfortunately after I updated the app it stopped working

Maybe I am missing something?

From the reviews this app looks great and exactly what I need.

Unfortunately, my subject isn’t in the list (or I am not seeing it). I am studying my Masters in counter terrorism and cannot seem to find any journals that will help me. On initial start up, there is no option to look for journals in a crime category - If I select Social sciences, which I feel would be the nearest alternative - Nothing relating to crime or terrorism.

If I am at fault I would be happy to amend my review as it does look like an interesting app.
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Response from developer

Dear user, thanks for your feedback. I shared your concern with our product team and here is what they say: There are around 20 journals where journal name contains crime: Journal of Crime and Justice Global Crime Crime Prevention and Community Safety Crime and Delinquency Crime and Justice International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice Psychology, Crime and Law Trends in Organized Crime Crime, Media, Culture Howard Journal of Crime and Justice Crime, Law and Social Change Crime Science Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance Crime Fiction Studies International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics And in terms of the subject areas you can see the following area: Pathology & Forensic Medicine Law Sociology & Political Science Cultural Studies Research areas you can look for: Medical & Health Sciences Social Sciences & Psychology If you select Social Sciences you then need to select any of the following: Law Sociology & Political Science Cultural Studies Do let us know if this is helpful. If not, please write to us at info@researcher-app.com. We would love to hear from you! Thanks, Maria

Love the app

I have been using this app only for a few days an I am loving it. Till now, I used to receive email alerts of newly published issues in my journals of interest, but since using this app it has been much easier to keep track of recently published papers in these and many other journals I was less familiar with.

As a suggestion, I would love to be able to see a section in the app with the “calls for papers” in special issues of the journals included in the app.
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Response from developer

Dear user, Thank you for your valuable feedback. I have shared with the product team and we will consider your suggestion. If I can help you with anything else, please let me know. Enjoy reading and keep supporting us :-) Thanks, Maria

LOVE

this app is amazing! No issues whatsoever.

Highlights: book marking ability, ability to put bookmarked articles into folders, using keywords and getting notifications for articles, I can read this like my twitter feed except less stress.

Would be nice if there was more citation options such as end note but I’m not too worried about that. Very few apps I’ve seen run this smoothly. And for free? Can’t ask for much more.
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Response from developer

Dear User, we are happy to know that you found our app useful. Please help us by spreading the word amongst your friends. I've shared your suggestion within our team and we will consider it. Enjoy reading and keep supporting us :-). If you have any feedback or suggestions, please write to us at info@researcher-app.com. We would love to hear from you! Thanks, Maria

Full text

I used to really like this app, but now I cannot get the full text to work, when I click on it, a white page that says ”done” opens up, but nothing ever loads, and there doesn’t seem to be any other way to get to the articles any more. Also, I couldn’t find any way to contact support or help from within the app, so I’m leaving this review hoping to get my app to work again.
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Latest Update

It’s absolutely beautiful, the number of sources has also increased in recent months and their recommendations always make me curious and wanting to read the paper.

Well done and keep up the great work!

Response from developer

Dear user, Thank you for your review. Enjoy reading & keep supporting us :) If you have any feedback or suggestion, you could write to us at info@researcher-app.com. We would love to hear from you! Thanks, Maria

Good tool to keep up with the literature

It has all the necessary functions (filters, journal feeds etc) that help me see the recent publications in my area.

One problem I found is that the journal feed does not allow me to filter out “just accepted” papers from ASAP (as soon as publishable) articles. As least I did not find such a function.

The difference is that for most journals I follow, “just accepted” articles are pre-galley proof and they do not have TOC graphics, which makes them much harder to navigate through than ASAP (as soon as publishable) or already published articles. For some journals (for example, Agnewandte Chemie), the feed page is overwhelmed by “just accepted” papers without any graphics, and I find it really hard to read through all the tittles and abstracts without any graphics.
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Response from developer

Dear user, Thank you for your valuable feedback. We're sorry that you are facing this issue. This has been shared within the team and we will look into it. If we can help you with anything else you can contact us via info@researcher-app.com. Thanks, Maria.

Brilliant App 🥳

Fantastic app for keeping up to date on literature.

The app makes a social media style feed for literature making keeping up to date on your field habitual.

Response from developer

Thank you for your review. Enjoy reading & keep supporting us :) If you have any feedback or suggestion, you could write to us at info@researcher-app.com. We would love to hear from you! Thanks, Maria

Needs cookies

Almost every time I close the app, I have to log back in to my institutional access (which is extremely laborious due to my school’s requirements, including 2-factor authentication). My institution allows me to stay logged in for a certain amount of time if I check the option, but it says it needs cookies. This makes sense. But, why can’t the app use/save cookies so we don’t have to log in so much? It affects my desire to use or recommend the app.
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Response from developer

Dear user, thank you for bringing this to our notice and we're sorry you've faced this issue. I've shared this with our product team and we'll look into this. Thanks, Maria

Organizing journals

I really want to love this app, with its clean interface and extensive catalogue. But with dozens of journals to follow, without the ability to organize journals into ‘groups’ (like browzine’s shelves) the app is useless to me. This is especially important for interdisciplinary researchers who need to follow literature from different communities. I hope the team will prioritize these features. Until then-back yo browzine.
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