When comparing ReadCube Papers vs Mendeley, the Slant community recommends ReadCube Papers for most people. In the question“What is the best reference manager?” ReadCube Papers is ranked 5th while Mendeley is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose ReadCube Papers is:
Their browser integration is amazing. Wherever you are on the web, shows you if you have that paper in a personal or shared library and lets you stream the paper, annotate right on the webpage you are on.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Best UI & Workflow
Their browser integration is amazing. Wherever you are on the web, shows you if you have that paper in a personal or shared library and lets you stream the paper, annotate right on the webpage you are on.
Pro Fast and accurate lookup of metadata
ReadCube Papers can find the metadata for most papers, and can also convert the bibliography into clickable links to the original papers. Killer.
Pro Very easy to use
Pro Good sharing and community support
Pro Moderately high cloud space
Pro Very good PDF management capability
Pro Great web interface
Pro Good video tutorials
Official video tutorials can be found here that take you through what the software is capable and how to go about using it.
Cons
Con Closed Source (Proprietary)
Own by Elsevier
Con Not very good web import capability
To support importing citation from your browser
Con Proprietary and not-standard PDF annotation
If you annotate the PDFs you have to open it with Mendeley since it uses non-standard formats to annotate PDFs.