Elsevier eBooks+ vs VisionStation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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+
VisionStation
This app offers a suite of pocket tools for quick vision assessments. It includes a VA chart with customizable viewing distances and optotypes, a pupil and general ruler, and a theoretical color vision test. Designed for general use, it is not intended for diagnostic purposes.
- VA chart with varied viewing distances
- Customizable optotypes
- Crowding bars
- Duochrome test
- Pupil and general ruler
- Theoretical color vision test
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General pocket tools for quick vision assessment. VA chart - varied viewing distances - varied optotypes - crowding bars - duochrome Pupil ruler/general ruler D-CViTT Theoretical color vision test * not for diagnostic purposes Copyright, 2024, Switt Kongdachalert, M.D.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: VisionStation at 100% against Elsevier eBooks+'s 43%. VisionStation also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.6). Elsevier eBooks+'s advantage is rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 1). 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.
Elsevier eBooks+ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elsevier eBooks+ has 1.9K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Elsevier eBooks+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of VisionStation's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Elsevier eBooks+ | VisionStation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Elsevier Inc. | Switt Kongdachalert |
Customer experience
Elsevier eBooks+
VisionStation
Bugs and 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
VisionStation
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Elsevier eBooks+
No in-app purchases
VisionStation
No in-app purchases
Questions
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