Elsevier eLibrary Reader vs Elsevier eBooks+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elsevier eLibrary Reader
Access and read Elsevier's ebooks on your mobile devices. Organize your library into shelves, customize your reading experience with notes and highlights, and easily navigate through content. Download books directly from the eLibrary website.
- Read Elsevier ebooks on mobile
- Organize books into shelves
- Customize reading experience
- Add notes and highlights
- Bookmark pages
- Search for keywords
- Navigate via table of contents
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With the Elsevier eLibrary Reader App you can read Elsevier’s ebooks on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. You can organize books in to shelves, customize your reading experience, add notes or highlights to specific passages, bookmark a page and download ebooks from our eLibrary website. Download ebooks From Elsevier eLibrary website Customize your reading experience: · Add notes or highlights to specific passages, bookmark pages/locations · Select among four typefaces and adjust font size, set margins · Set background color of the Reader · Switch between horizontal swipe and vertical scroll · Set brightness level Organize: · Organize your ebooks/content by creating shelves Navigation: · Search for specific keywords and navigate to a specific passage by picking a search result · Swipe or scroll to go to previous or next page · Use the page slider to quickly navigate across · Go to specific passages from the table listing the personalization · Table of contents Formats supported: · DRM pdf from Elsevier eLibrary.
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 Elsevier eLibrary Reader's 0%. Elsevier eBooks+ also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 79). Elsevier eLibrary Reader's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elsevier eBooks+ has 1.8K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Elsevier eLibrary Reader's written reviews are positive against 43% of Elsevier eBooks+'s.
Elsevier eLibrary Reader ships an update every 4 months, Elsevier eBooks+ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elsevier eLibrary Reader | Elsevier eBooks+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (79 ratings) | 4.8 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 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 | 62 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd | Elsevier Inc. |
Customer experience
Elsevier eLibrary Reader
Elsevier eBooks+
User reviews
Elsevier eLibrary Reader
From 79 App Store ratingsRoom to improve
- ❌ Unable to log in
- ❌ Invalid credentials error
- ❌ App is useless
- ❌ Frustrating user experience
- ❌ Falling behind technologically
Elsevier eBooks+
From 1.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Student / Study friendly
- 🚀 Enhances content
- 👍 Ebooks from Elsevier
- 👍 Great app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unable to view images/tables
- 🐛 Useless for medical textbooks
- 🐛 Positioning issues
- 🐛 Scrolling and zooming problems
- 🐛 Slow loading times
Bugs and requests
Elsevier eLibrary Reader
Reported bugs
6 issues- Login failure
- Invalid login credentials
- App does not work
- Cannot sign into apps
- Credentials not being accepted
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- Login issues persist for years
Requested features
3 requests- Fix the login issue
- Improve app functionality
- Make the app compatible with online books
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
Elsevier eLibrary Reader
No in-app purchases
Elsevier eBooks+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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