BrowZine vs Elsevier eBooks+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BrowZine
Access and read scholarly journals from your institution or via Open Access. Organize your research by browsing subjects, creating a personal bookshelf, and saving articles to your preferred citation managers or cloud storage.
- Browse journals by subject
- View table of contents
- Personalize journal bookshelf
- Save articles to citation managers
- Share articles on social media
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Use BrowZine to easily find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from your university, hospital, or corporate library who has a BrowZine subscription, or through Open Access publishers, covering all disciplines. With BrowZine you can: • Browse titles by subject to easily find journals of interest • Easily view table of contents of current and past journals • Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals • Save articles to EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, RefWorks, Dropbox, and other services • Share with other researchers by posting to Facebook, Twitter and more
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 rating: Elsevier eBooks+ at 4.7 against BrowZine's 4.1. Elsevier eBooks+ also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 66). BrowZine's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elsevier eBooks+ has 1.9K ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of BrowZine's written reviews are positive against 43% of Elsevier eBooks+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BrowZine | Elsevier eBooks+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (66 ratings) | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.7% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 66 | 1.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Third Iron, LLC | Elsevier Inc. |
Customer experience
BrowZine
Elsevier eBooks+
Bugs and requests
BrowZine
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
BrowZine
No in-app purchases
Elsevier eBooks+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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