Papers review

If you know and love the Papers app for the Mac, you will love the new Papers for iPhone and iPod touch which holds your personal library of research literature wherever you go. With Papers for iPhone and iPod touch, the world’s knowledge is never more than the flick of a finger away. Avoid piles of paper on your desk and dusty file cabinets, now it all fits within your pocket, available whether you’re in the lecture hall, at a poster session, or cruising at 30,000 feet in a plane. Your personal library of Science, in your pocket.

Like on the desktop version of Papers you can easily navigate your library to find the papers you are looking for in no time. In fact it’s even easier on your iPhone or iPod touch because all it takes to scroll to the list of articles is a flick with your finger. Scrolling is super smooth and once you find the article you’re interested in simply tap it to view all its metadata, including the title, author list, abstract, web links, and more. Uses familiar gestures for flipping between pages and zooming in on those full-color figures.

Find the relevant articles and show your colleague that interesting figure you discovered last night. Flag an article, which will make it automatically appear in the flagged articles section. Or give the articles you’ve read a rating and sort your library such that the best articles always stay on top.

Papers comes with 6 built-in search engines that give you access to millions of articles at any time. Search the world’s largest repositories, then visit the publisher’s websites, download the PDF to your library and start reading straight away, it’s that simple.

You can wirelessly exchange any article you find with other Papers for iPhone and iPod touch users as well, or send an email to your friends and colleagues to tell them about your new findings and ideas. Also you can synchronize its library with Papers on your Mac. And with the free online backup service you never have to worry about loosing all your work.

Here is a video demo of the Papers app on the iPhone

AppSafari review of Papers was written by Joe Seifi on March 9th, 2009 and categorized under App Store, Books, Developers, Featured, Notes, Productivity, Reading, Reference. Page viewed 5820 times, 1 so far today. Need help on using these apps? Please read the Help Page.