myEVOLVE vs Elsevier eBooks+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
myEVOLVE
This app streamlines communication between parents and schools, offering features for news, document access, event booking, and secure payments. It provides a centralized platform for managing school-related information and activities for your child.
- Home-school communication
- Book clubs, trips, and events
- Digital consent forms
- Secure school payments
- Student profile and attendance tracking
- Push notifications for important updates
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The myEVOLVE app provides you, the parent or carer, with a smart, secure and easy way to engage with your child’s school from the convenience of your mobile phone. Home-School Communications - Read the latest news from school - Save time and paper by directly accessing letters from within the app - Access important school documents - View the school calendar - Report absence to school - Push notifications to alert you of important tasks that need your attention e.g. important school news, consent forms requiring completion, payments due, etc. Bookings - View the school's extra-curricular clubs programme - Book places on clubs - View school trip opportunities that are available for your child - Book places on school trips - Book tickets for school events e.g. concerts & productions Consent - Push notifications to inform you when consent forms have been sent to you - Digitally complete consent forms from within the app - Quick, secure and convenient process. Pay - Fast, convenient, and secure payments. - Pay for extra-curricular clubs - Pay for school trips - Pay in full or instalments - Pay student bills e.g. School Photographs, bus passes, DofE registration fees etc. - Pay for school shop purchases e.g. textbooks, equipment, uniform etc. - Top-up your child's wallet for school meals - Keep on top of bills with push notifications and reminders Student Profile - View your contact details to ensure they are up-to-date - Access to student timetable - View and monitor attendance - View awards, commendations and behaviour marks - Keep track of involvement in trips, clubs & school sports *In order to use myEVOLVE your school will need to be using the EVOLVE platform. The features available to you will depend on those activated by your child's school. Your school will provide you with account activation details.
Elsevier eBooks+
Access your medical textbooks offline and enhance your learning with tools for note-taking, highlighting, and flashcard creation. Sync your progress and annotations across devices for a seamless study experience.
- Offline book access
- Note-taking and highlighting
- Flashcard creation
- Cross-device syncing
- In-book search
- Figure viewing and zooming
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The Elsevier eBooks+ Bookshelf companion app provides on and offline access to the books in your eBooks+ account on the Content Library page. Enhance your reading experience with tools designed to build and improve your medical knowledge; making and sharing notes, highlighting key text, and creating flashcards. Elsevier eBooks Features: • Download books to your iOS device for easy online or offline reading. • Simple, user-friendly navigation and a clean reading experience. • Search inside your current book or across your full library. • Select text to create notes or highlights from your mobile device. • Tap to open figures, view captions, and pinch to zoom. • Sync your bookmarks, last page read, and all of your notes and highlights between your iOS device and our desktop or web-based eBooks+ apps. Requirements: • Elsevier eBooks+ account • One or more books available in your eBooks+ Bookshelf account • iOS 17+
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Elsevier eBooks+ at 43% against myEVOLVE's 0%. Elsevier eBooks+ also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 23 months). myEVOLVE's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
myEVOLVE ships an update every 23 months, Elsevier eBooks+ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | myEVOLVE | Elsevier eBooks+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | eduFOCUS | Elsevier Inc. |
Customer experience
myEVOLVE
Elsevier eBooks+
Bugs and requests
myEVOLVE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Elsevier eBooks+
Reported bugs
5 issues- Figures placed at the end of chapters
- Search function only works for single words
- Inability to clear search history
- Freezing and crashing issues
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
8 requests- More highlighting and note-taking options
- Ability to write, draw, or paste images on pages
- Separate flashcard option integration with Anki/Quizlet
- More font size options
- Streamlined text selection for voiceover
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- Page turning instead of scrolling
- Ability to write on pages
- Interactive features
In-app purchases
myEVOLVE
No in-app purchases
Elsevier eBooks+
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is myEVOLVE free?
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Do myEVOLVE or Elsevier eBooks+ have ads?
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