Cengage Read App Reviews

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WORST APP EVER. Zero stars if I could. It only have one job. Read their overpriced textbooks aloud. The app changes voices every page, gets stuck, some of those voices are things like cello. None of the voices are understandable they’re all AI generated crap or sound like they’ve just sucked a tank of helium, and at least four of them read in musical instrument - I kid you not. In this day and age they should be able to have a decent voice read those books. They could afford to pay somebody on Fiverr a few hundred bucks to record their stupid books. This is app is completely useless unless when the page turns you want to hear it read to you in violin. Just go with your regular app that comes with your phone. It will be 1000 times better. Cengage is a money making crap publisher and it’s unbelievable to me that anyone in education could perform this poorly. F-

Unusable. I can’t scroll down on pages to read any part of the text that is below the screen. Using the screen reader, it does scroll down the page as it reads aloud. Unfortunately the screen reader stalls every 1-2 pages and I must restart it at the top of the page. There is no way to make it jump to the part where it left off. This application does not meet the minimum requirements to do what it’s supposed to do. Therefore the application is completely unusable.

Easy to use with great features. The Cengage Read app is very straightforward and a great option to have etextbooks accessible on the go. I love having the option for the book to be read aloud on a faster speed so I can be productive during my walks to/from class!

Terrible execution. This app was a good idea that had the worst execution I’ve witnessed. Instead of being able to scroll like you would with a normal online textbook the text is split up into pages that won’t even fit a whole table, and have barely any words on them. What’s much worse is the voices. There’s literally one called bubbles that sounds like -you guessed it- bubbles, and is completely not understandable. Most of the voices used aren’t understandable, which is wild given that every other app I’ve used for narration was able to have an AI that you could understand easily. They made like 40 voices in the tiniest scroll bar that are all terrible and make my ears bleed.

Nearly impossible to use. The pages are cut incorrectly, and not formatted right. Zooming in or out will break the formatting even more, causing the page to focus the text halfway off the screen, with seemingly no way to correct itself. The loading time for pages is very slow, even though the content is downloaded, and infographics do not show properly, as some are too long for my screen, which is the exact problem I had with the web version.

Terrible. I've been using the application for about a month and waited to leave my review to fairly assess the functionality. This app is trash. It doesn't even allow the text reading feature to read highlighted text, it just skips over highlighted text and resumes reading what's not highlighted, or sometimes the speech function doesn't even work. I updated the app and couldn't even get past the terms and conditions popup. It asked me to decline or accept, I tapped accept and it didn't recognize it, only the decline and close option was recognized, which proceeds to sign you out. This app needs better development and more testing, it's not good. I don't even want to install the next update because this most recent one was a pain.

Unbelievably bad. I honestly don’t know how it’s possible to have an ereader app this bad in 2023? It’s not a new or hard to master technology. The “pages” aren’t sized correctly to fit on the screen, and it’s possible to zoom out to show that it’s just a long canvas of different blocks that make up the “pages” but trying to scroll along to read will move you up and down. Turning your phone to try to fit two pages on the screen does god knows what but you end up with a totally blank screen that won’t change. A literal port of a continuous scroll web page would be a massive improvement over whatever they’re trying to do. Or just … a pdf of the book.

Glitches. I am only using the app ebook reader, which allows me to read and highlight. I am not using this as an assignment course add on, so I can’t comment. The app seems really buggy, it goes to another page, 2-4 pages from where you are at when either trying to highlight or if you simply happen to click on the wrong, word or letter. It does not automatically give you a full page view. Also for some reason it does not show the page number you are at unless you click on the menu.

Annoying to Use. I use this app to read textbooks for my classes and it is an awful experience. I am not able to highlight anything and when I can it adds lines far away from where I am touching. It also skips multiple pages at a time so I am constantly turning back. I don’t know if these are bugs that need to be fixed, but I wouldn’t download this app until they are fixed.

Cengage Read Review. I have loved the cengage-read app ever since the relaunch. Specifically, I use this app to read my business textbook. I love how I can highlight, add notes, listen as an audiobook, and bookmark specific pages. Most importantly, I love how I can read my textbook wherever I go. I will be traveling to Florence this upcoming spring and cannot wait to have the option to access my materials in whatever country I will be visiting. I would recommend this out to everyone and anyone.

Reviews are exaggerated. Not sure what these other people expect, but this app does its job for me. I wanted a way to read my cengage books for college on my phone, and this app does just that. Granted, its not the next candy crush, but it doesn't have to be so im don't get why the reviews for this app are so brutal lol. 4/5. It'd earn 5/5 if the UI was cleaned up a bit more and if there was a dark mode... reading for a while and staring at the all white screen starts to strain the eyes.

Not quite there yet. I read all the negative reviews and figured I’ll give it a shot . It’s not quite there yet. I have an iPhone 14 pro, so maybe it’s not compatible. This might be better for iPads. You can’t really see the bottom of the pages. And it’s hard to move around. But I’ve only tried it for 5 minutes. Maybe it was user error. I’m better off reading the text from my laptop and monitor.

The Worst Textbook App. I never have any interest in writing reviews for an app, but because this app is absolutely horrendous AND I’m required to use it everyday for school… I figured this was a worthy effort. There aren’t any instructions on the fact that you have to add your textbook to your library even if you purchased it. It zooms in and out on the text for absolutely no reason at all, and most times it will cut off half the text and won’t adjust appropriately even when you try to zoom out to reset the view. Highlighting is horrendous because it wants to glitch out and highlight whatever random text it wants. The view of the textbook is quite unprofessional in my opinion. It’s like they put it in the app without even thinking about how it would look to people reading it. You can’t even read most tables that they insert in the text. It’s an absolute joy to deal with this. In this day and age, I have no clue why two of my professors would choose this option. And yes, MindTap was required for me so I had to get the digital version and the unlimited subscription is much cheaper than buying physical textbooks and the addition software. Please, for the love of learning, don’t make me hate my class because this app and website are absolutely archaic.

Needs Work. I don’t have access to a laptop or computer so to access my ebooks I must use the apps through my phone or tablet. This app is very sensitive and does not allow you to see the entirety of a single page and instead has half of two pages in your view. I can not find a work around and is very frustrating when trying to read or annotate. I think the idea of this app is wonderful but it needs to be majorly improved to meet the needs of it audience.

Impossible for students with vision impairment. Not only is this app horrid, and the voice options terrible, but it reads the pages so poorly and out of order, any student trying to learn would lose track. It reads the page number, title, and text listed at the bottom of every page before it begins reading that page. Then it proceeds to read the second column on the page 1st and the first column on the page 2nd. Then it reads the captions underneath each of the images, followed by reading the text and title at the bottom of the page again. When you turn the page it repeat this process all over again reading the second call them first and the first column second.

I can’t believe a real person was paid to design this app. Cengage Read is such a poorly designed app that it reminds me of my 4th-grade “website” projects, which worked great until you tried to click anything on the page. Somehow, every possible function on this app manages to have some sort of issue. Want to highlight a section of the text? Have fun trying to find it later when an entirely different section has become highlighted. That’s if you even can highlight anything on the page, because and touch of the screen to the far left or right side of the page will trigger a flip to the next page. This app is simply straight out of the Stone Ages and I am only using it out of desperation. I would so much rather carry a ten-pound textbook all day long.

No functional. One would think after reading all the negative reviews about not being able to read the entire text on the screen that the app developers would do something about it but I see they still have not fixed this problem. Pity we are at the mercy of our instructors and don’t have a choice in what textbook company we use because I certainly would not recommend one that doesn’t have a functional e-reader. Pretty sure they do this so we are forced to rent the textbook to have any options for reading when a full computer screen isn’t available.

If i could give it 0 stars i would. This is the worst app i have ever used. They don’t even care because they feel that the school will always use them as a book provider. The books are never available and it doesn’t show you how to download all books. There’s always some issue with this app. The moment a new company offers this service they are going down !! But i bet then they start trying to care because they will lose business. I’m rooting for the loss of business of this company.

Awful Textbook App. Coming from bookshelf, my other textbook app, this isn’t even comparable. I only got this one because one class uses mindtap and I need to be able to read my textbook from my phone. Talk about a captive market. This app is so janky, the search function is unreliable, the layout is confusing and it’s overall not user friendly. Oh, also, my book randomly disappears sometimes and I have to sign out and re-sign in for it to reappear. It often crashes when this occurs. If you can, use a different app for your textbook. And to the people running this app, please try to improve it, there’s nowhere to go but up.

WorkedOK for one day. I was referred to this app as I have learning disabilities that make reading difficult, as the app is supposed to have the option to listen to the chapter being read to you. First of all the voices are insulting. Some of them are just awful comical voices like it’s some kind of joke to need to be read to. Secondly, the second day I went to use it, it no longer worked at all. thanks for supporting those who have difficulties learning, as other people do. a zero stars for you.

Terrible app. Voices are ridiculous.. This is supposed to be an education app for reading online textbooks for college courses. There are like 20 voices that are impossible to listen to. Jester is just someone laughing. They sound like robots or people with helium or worse (if that’s even possible). I was really hoping to be able to listen to textbooks on the go but that won’t be happening. Edit: developer sent generic response asking for more info to solve the issue, wanting me to create account and ticket on website. I’m not going to do that. The issue is all the voices are terrible. There shouldn’t be “jester” and “robot” for reading college level textbooks.

Forced Necessity. I can see why the reviews on this app is so low. I had to have a 7th edition book for my class and the cheapest rental I could find was on YOUR website. Good. Awesome. Let me just get it on my computer. Maybe I can pull up the cengage website on my phone so I could study while I go about my business. Oh wait, I CAN’T! Because apparently I have to get the APP because I can’t access the book that I PAID FOR on a web browser! Okay, fine, let me just download the app. Lo and behold, I can’t even SEE THE ENTIRE PAGE because I have no idea how to clear out the bottom “go to this page” tab. I don’t even know if it’s capable of doing that. I have to pinch the screen to read the rest of the page. If you have a solution for me to see the full page I’m reading, maybe even find a way to format scrolling instead of the clunky swipe-to-next-section-of-the-page, that would be JUST SWELL. Thanks.

Not Useable. I have never written a review for an app, but this one made me pretty angry. Cengage is completely inaccessible on my IPad that I use from school. Both on Safari and this app, When I try to log I receive the prompt “unable to sign in” although I am using the same email and password that I use to access my textbook on a computer. There is also no support that I can find and no developer on the App Store to contact. I hope the app works for you, I unfortunately cannot even access it.

Pretty good: one complaint. I like that the textbooks are easy to read. The writing is big and it's very easy to navigate your book. It's also very easy to access the read aloud feature. My one complaint is that when you hit the back button in the top left corner, it takes you to the library. If I was in the table of contents, click on the wrong chapter by accident, and hot the back button, I expect to return to the table of contents. Instead, it takes me all the way out of the book to my library. This causes me immediate frustration 5-10 times a day. Otherwise, great app. Easy way to read textbooks on the go.

Reading feature inadequate. I use ebooks bc I’m dyslexic and the book reader can read to me. This book reader voice is completely and utterly inadequate and would barely meet any sort of ADA requirements. The voice is so old school digital that it is difficult to understand. It is like having a conversation with a 1940s movie robot. For the love of all that is good and beautiful in this world, please update your text to speech feature so that I don’t have to listen to this and get tinnitus!

Barely functions. This weekend I was heading somewhere without internet. I was excited to learn that Cengage had an app I could download my e-text to so that I could study on my trip. Spoiler alert: Cengage ensures that isn’t possible. The problem is that this app is the most abysmal excuse for an application I have ever seen. You cannot scroll down the pages, adjusting the font size causes the lines to overlap, and the voice narration is barely understandable. I myself am an app developer and I cannot believe any of this passed basic QA. Disappointed in this disgrace.

Liberty University is a scam. They say you can do all your class work using a mobile device if you don’t have access to a computer. Week 4 Can’t get into any of my reading materials for class and my professor says I need a computer. Yet they won’t disburse my loan refund payments to buy a laptop until November. By then I won’t have enough class work completed and they’ll drop me. Taking all my federal loan money and Pell grant money and leave me with no credits or anything. Just debt.

Awful textbook app. I had to leave a review for the same reasons other students have, this is the worst experience in a required course you could have. Some textbooks are designed and formatted and work ok others are like trying to read through a straw. App doesn’t have a way to select or add textbooks to download, those have to be through an internet browser outside of the app. Unfortunately these publishers get away as they make lucrative contracts to colleges and take away the students choice.

Accessibility is so bad. I was already really hesitant to use this app as I hate having to use anything outside of Apple Books or kindle. I tried using the spoken content on my iPad & iPhone to listen to the book because the voices they have on the app are SOOOO robotic and hard to listen to. Tried using spoken content through my iPad and iPhone and neither read more than a page at once like how it usually can on other apps. So I thought I’d power through and use the read aloud within the Cengage app and it did the SAME thing. This is super counterproductive and forces me to start the player on every page. This is even more frustrating considering the layout of the book includes only a paragraph or so per page. Please fix this! This is super inaccessible for those who really need spoken content.

Worst app I’ve ever used. If I could give this no stars I would. I don’t know how they managed to make a textbook reader so awful. How can you make a reading app awful you might ask? Well, it routinely just omits entire pages of charts. When it doesn’t do that, it often makes a habit of omitting important words. I was just attempting to read a chart that was supposed to give body systems in one column, and the autoimmune disorders and what they affect in the other. It gave the body systems, and it gave the body parts affected, but the part of the sentence that gave the NAME of the disorder was blanked out. How am I supposed to learn this way? I use this app because my disability makes physical books difficult and painful to use. And my education is suffering as a result of the app developers incompetence.

Miss the previous app. The app just crashed and when I opened it up again, it logged me out. This is frustrating because the original app didn’t do this. Like many on the reviews, I have to use the app in order to read my textbook and I prefer to read it on my iPad rather than being stuck on my computer to read the textbook. So having it crash and having to relogin is inconvenient since I don’t have my login memorized. Besides crashing, it lags pretty badly, and sometimes it doesn’t show all the text. For certain tables, it doesn’t have the text in the first column. Please fix this app developers.

Horrible app. Almost every time I try to highlight something, the book glitches and sends me to another page. Format and page numbering is set up weird. You don't get a full view of the page unless you zoom out every time you turn to a new page. I like that there is a section where you can view all pages you bookmarked. I've used McGraw Connect in a lot of my other courses and have never had these issues. Hopefully they put some effort into working out the bugs since a lot of teachers use cengage...

Can’t navigate. This was great to have my textbook on my iPhone just before the midterm so I could study while at lunch at work. But this app is so bad I’ve deleted it. I couldn’t read the entire contents of one page on the screen or scroll to see the rest of the page. Next arrows don’t always take you to the next page—more like 4-5 higher. You’re better off accessing the text through your school’s online course. Suggest Cengage removes it quickly, fixes it and posts an update.

The Previous Cengage App Was Better. Cengage Read is missing many of the features that I used to help study and better interact with my courses. The new app has many bugs that need to be ironed out I frequently get kicked out of the app and are forced to login again. The previous app would not do this and always retained my session/login allowing me to quickly get going. Plus not being able to see upcoming due dates it a complete deal breaker. Sometimes I don’t always have a computer with me to login but I always have my phone and not having that is tuff. I don’t always nor want to have a laptop near me just to check upcoming assignments. Even parts of the reading program don’t display correctly. Having parts of the textbook navigation getting in the way of the book. I hope these issues get ironed out or updated since I love having access to my Cengage on my mobile devices.

Just use the browser.. The app is NOT worth it. It’s not a bad site, just the app needs a lot of working on. I much rather would continue using the browser through whatever link instructors provide, you can read most of the information on the pages because it doesn’t let you scroll down only lets you go to the next page. It isn’t hard to use it just does not let you view valuable information.

Practically useless to me. Great idea, but lacks in execution. Using on my iPad the progress bar in the bottom cuts off my view of the remainder of the page. I can’t seem to scroll up or down so I have no idea what’s below the bottom of the page. I can tell something is there because part of the text is cutoff behind the progress. Adding a way to hide/auto hide the progress bar would make the app far more useful. As an instructor I’m reluctant to use Cengage in the future if my students have to use the web version of the ebook. A large majority of my students use tablet or phones to read the book.

Disappointed Instructor…. Given the push to a subscription textbook service where electronic access is the only way in which to access a book, I find it completely befuddling that the application for reading such electronic textbooks on both an iPad and iPhone is so deeply flawed on such a basic level. The short story here is that the application cuts off the text at the “bottom” of the page. Need to use a larger font size? More text is cut off. This application has made the text virtually unreadable, in my opinion. I have no idea what other features are available in the application because I never even made it far enough past the first page before giving up entirely because the content was cut off. To go a step further, I am an instructor who has used other textbook applications and never experienced such a fundamental issue before. Simply stated, I will not use Cengage products in my courses until this application error is corrected. If I could give zero stars, I would. This application is completely unsuited for its purpose.

Unusable, just use the website. I have never written a review for an app before, but to the developers: have you tried this app on an iPad before? Maybe it’s better on a phone, but the eTextbooks are simply unreadable. Entire images are gone. (There are boxes titled “Figure _” that are completely empty.) The pages aren’t even centered on the screen, and it won’t let you drag or zoom to center them. The text itself looks awful, and there are random page numbers on some pages but not others. Don’t waste your time or your storage—just use Cengage on your browser.

Thee worst app. This app is a complete joke. 100% worthless and unusable. I was excited about the audio book feature but that is so glitchy you can’t use it. On the rare occurrence it does work the voices are so robotic and choppy you can’t understand the words. How Cengage gets away with passing this app off as a perk is beyond me. Students pay hundreds of dollars for these services and Cengage can’t even put out a functional app. Universities need to cut ties with Cengage asap. It’s unfair that students are required to pay to use garbage software that doesn’t work.

Horrendous. I literally have only had this for less than 48 hours and I am extremely disappointed. There are way too many glitches and the support team is not available after business hours. The site automatically kicks me out every few minutes. I am in grad school and I do homework in the evening. If this was not a better and cheaper option I would literally buy my books full price. If I could give 0 stars I would.

App complications and solutions. This app fails visually when shown images it’s not easy to follow along .. also sometimes it ready text in the page that are not needed to be read like copy write numbers and also page numbers like the one on the corner of images .. also it’s really hard to read on phone so i use mirroring from my phone to tv and on some books like for math it’s zoomed out and text can not be made bigger or smaller you have to zoom in but than it zoomed out automatically after each sentence.. my biggest issue is that the audio voices are also not that good I mean the selection of voices is bad to worse than to terrible .. it’s already hard to listen to a robotic monotone voice but you have darth vader as a option like why !!! I mean just a simple voice that sounds more human would be great also there are a lot of pronunciation issues .. and in general the app isn’t bad but it has issue small issues that make it bad .. my choice for replying is because I like using this app but it’s hard sometimes because the complications and small issues get to be time consuming and somewhat annoying to have to do (turning pages ) and sometimes not being able to skip the copyright information is weird also the extra i information like legal property rights .. and text sizing for math books and images .. many more improvements also but it’s not a bad app just has a lot of small issues

Terrible App. I never write reviews for apps but this is truly the most frustrating app that I have ever used for reading. Were it not for the fact that I am required to use it for school, I would not use it. No matter how I adjust the font or zoom, my text ALWAYS gets cut off. Sometimes if I am lucky, it’ll show the top of the page when I make the font as small as possible but it is usually short lived because the app zooms in by itself. Given how expensive renting or buying from this company is, I had hoped they’d be able to produce an app that actually allows me to read the book. So frustrating and upsetting. Please do better Cengage.

Zero stars. Need the old app back. I'm exceedingly frustrated that Cengage discontinue access to the mobile app for ipad and gave us the ereader app which is completely non-functional. I'm in the middle of an MBA and I need to be able to read my textbooks. The ipad app doesn't scroll text, it's glitchy, and the search function is nearly useless. The ebooks, which require side swiping every section are a terrible way to read a book, vs the well-formatted digial books we had access to in the mobile app which scrolled for each chapter, were easy to highlight and navigate quickly. User preferences aside, You don't just discontinue access to one app without working out the bugs on the new app! The app literally has hundreds of 1-start reviews. Please at least re-enable the mobile app till you sort out all the issue in the new one. I have a masters degree I need to complete. My only option now is to read textbooks on my laptop browser or buy/rent the physical textbook.

What?? No assignment notifications?!!. Yes, this is a reader but not much more. It is a stripped down version of the previous app. You do not have a list of assignments due by date as previously. The MindTap tools are not available. You can read the book, underline, and develop notes in this app which is not new as, once again, the previous app did. Cengage you emailed me and as asked me to recommend to my students. I cannot and will not. And to compound the problem, there is no choice for my students as you have removed the old app. Please consider debugging the need to sign in over and over. If I multitask with a different app, I am forced to sign in when I return.

Constantly glitches. This app constantly glitches the whole entire time I'm using it, mainly whenever I try to turn my phone sideways in order to have a wider view and bigger letters. Then the screen will go blank, and I have to shut down the app and open it back to to fix it. Then sometimes when I reopen the app, it still gives me a blank screen or a screen that's so tiny there's no way possible to see anything on it. I spend more time trying to get the app to work than I do actually doing my work.

Super helpful!. I had been hoping for Cengage to come out with an app for their products for a little while now and am happy to say that Cengage Read is what I was looking for!! I mostly use it for the eBook features which are straightforward and user friendly. It took me a minute to figure out how to log in and download but after a few attempts everything went smoothly:)

Terrible app from a terrible company. Like so many others I am required to use this app it’s terrible. The books are never formatted correctly despite being Cengage published books. Whenever I open the app it says “error”. I am not impressed with a lot of the content from Cengage and I feel frustrated that I am forced to use their products for my classes. It feels coercive and I really really don’t like it. I have to pay for products I don’t like and wouldn’t use normally and their products have such low quality standards, but if you you have a captive customer base, I guess the quality isn’t the primary concern. For books or documents Adobe acrobat & Apple Books can manage documents much better than this. I keep manuals for my car and major appliances in acrobat and have much more ease using and reading the documents. I have several ebooks (some free some paid) in Apple Books and that app also has a far better user experience than this!

Needs assistance!. This app need a lot of help! There are no page numbers listed on the pages only if you go into the index of the book. This is very annoying seeing how I’m using the textbooks for school and am required to cite the page info. The pages also do not adjust and the text overlaps in some areas which makes it hard to read. It’s a hassle to get to the highlights and notes. And there is hardly any options for the text settings just to adjust the font size. It would be nice to scroll or use a darker setting when reading. This is one of the underdeveloped app that I have used for reading textbooks and wish they would choose a different one!

Horrible. I’m not one to post reviews, but this is so terrible that I had to leave a review. All forms of Cengage are horrific. I’m a college student who has had 3 classes that used Cengage as a primary form of education but it has been an awful experience every time. Registration pages rarely function. Any tests are extremely picky about what is the right answer. For a test on Excel, if you accidentally click a picture or a different button on the ribbon it will count it wrong even though you didn’t do anything. One of the worst educational experiences of my life

Updated fast customer service. As you can see below I was very stressed about not having access to the text on my iPad. Well that was yesterday. I asked and I received. In one day! That is stellar service. If something isn’t right with Cengage reach out to them. Even if you’re cranky and stressed they want to help. And they did! Here begins yesterday’s rant: I purchased the course DIRECTLY FROM CENGAGE for two years with the Cengage and e-text book. I downloaded this useless app signed in only to find NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL. I can only access my TWO YEAR purchase via Canvas. Which means I CANNOT LOOK AT THE BOOK WHILE DOING MY CANVAS OR CENGAGE WORK! WTAF?!? EPIC FAILURE FOR A COMPANY PROFESSING TO BE LEADERS IN ACADEMIA TO BE THIS FAR BEHIND IN REMOTE LEARNING. YES I AM YELLING, I AM SO IRRITATED WITH CENGAGE!

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Terrible app! Why did Cengage leave vital source!!. Disastrous app. Doesn’t read to me as it says. Spells out the letters. Can’t download the pages beyond ten to use in other read to me apps. Constantly signing me out. Can’t turn the screen sideways to view the words bigger as it shrinks to completely illegible proportions. Get it together and sort this out please.

App making study even harder. This app is horrible. It constantly glitches out on my phone so I am forced to use on my iPad. My highlighting keeps getting moved for some reason. I’m two chapters into a bio psych book for uni and my highlighting is useless as it has all been moved to different parts of the text. It’s bad enough that you have to pay a fortune for a book that you only get for 5 years, let alone not being able to read and highlight it properly. I won’t be buying a book online with Cengage again. I’ll fork out the $250+ and get a real book next time. So disappointed.

Disastrous!. This app is a nightmare. You have to continually adjust screen size to see all the text on the page. When you swipe to change pages you get half of each page instead of a whole page. It makes reading for university a major challenge. If authors want students buy their books, I suggest this gets sorted out. I like the function of finding chapters easily and bookmarking, but reading with this app just leaves me frustrated!

Pointless. What happened to the flash cards and multi question part of the app?

Terrible do not buy, get a paperback!. App not suited for iPhone although it is listed in comparability. You do not get to view the full page of the book unless you pinch and hold the screen & if you turn your phone on it’s side you get less then 1/16 of the page to read at a time. Absolute disaster, unfortunately myself and other students have paid for this, don’t make the same mistake. Oh and Cengage, how about you stop fleecing students and actually provide a moderately decent app for your users? We paid for it???

Useless. Everytime I open the app on my IPAD the book that I have purchased has disappeared. I close the app down, sign out, third the IPAD on and off and it just won’t load the book. Fix your app

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what everyone els is saying. it’s bad, clicking through pages and sometimes it doesn’t load, sometime it brings me back an entire section. i need to fight the highlights to pop up most of the time.

Awful. Horrible app, the page is too tiny when you get the zoom to read work in the first try, after the second page, doesn’t work. There is no option to adjust the size of the page or zoom, again, awful app for really expensive books that as a student, need to buy!

Terrible interface. This app has made reading on this platform terribly frustrating. Pages aren’t loading, highlighting isn’t popping up as an option, highlighting doesn’t highlight the correct words, additional harassers are added in when reading highlighted sections and having the dreaded read to you, and the reader voice is so hard to follow. This has so much potential but missed the mark in a big way here.

App issues. When you try to navigate in this app you have to be really careful where you tap.some areas act as they should and others you get no response whatsoever. Also resizing text is nonfunctional as it randomly cuts off text,which completely defeats the purpose. Text books are expensive and I 100% expect better if you are pushing texts and to use the app. Fixes desperately needed.

A travesty. This app is an absolute travesty for students with text disabilities. The screen reader crashes the app half the time I try to use it. The other half of the time it gets stuck in a loop where it wont read any textbook content and only repeatedly reports the TTS prosody rate. There are also larger global design problems which other people have detailed, but this one in particular get me upset because it affects disabled students access to knowledge and learning. If you are going to lock your content into proprietary UI, make sure everyone can use it. Shame on you.

Terrible. Don’t use it unless you have to

Please do something, developer. This app is horrendous. Quite literally unusable. It’s a shame because a lot of students are paying top dollar for textbooks on Cengage and they don’t even have the ability to properly use them with this OFFICIAL app. Do something!!

Unusable Interface. I seldom write app reviews, but this reader is so unusable and poorly designed that I feel the need to warn others to avoid it. Pages don’t load, the app doesn’t format to horizontal, which is a joke, and worst of all, YOU CANT SCROLL ON THE PAGES. The single function that a reader is supposed to have is not present in this app, and I am puzzled as to how this app was able to make it through development and to release without anybody noticing. AVOID AT ALL COSTS, THE WEB READER ACTUALLY WORKS.

It’s fine. If you’re not mainly using this and just want quick access for texts books fast it’s perfect. If not, well that’s why it’s 4 and not 5 stars

Such a disappointment.. This app is so useless and frustrating. I thought I could read my etextbook and use text to speech while commuting to school but none of these features work properly. I deleted the app 2 hours after downloading it.

Split Screen. PLEASE add support for split screen. Otherwise it’s useless for taking notes. Thank you

Terrible!. This app cuts off whole sentences. The glossary and other functions are not available. The options to change font etc. randomly disappear with no way to restore.

Cannot split screen. Every other app can

Pages don’t fully load. The pages of my ebooks won’t scroll to the bottom of the page, the voice reading is glitchy….th entire platform is a mess. It’s easier to use my mobile browser to read the text, but even that doesn’t operate well or allow me to do annotations. These ebooks seem to only function properly on a computer

“You have no content here”. I purchased a book access and I can only view it on the website. The app is useless. Needs to be updated ASAP.

This app is a travesty!. Can’t even scroll, incomplete pages, can’t underline or take notes properly or at all. A PDF would be better. Unacceptable!

Split screen. It would be very useful if the app supported split screen.

Accessibility. Recent update broke what little VoiceOver accessibility this app used to have, making it completely impossible to navigate.

Terrible app. App is terrible. Glitchy, doesn’t allow split screen.

Worst reading app ever. Hard to use and navigate, not user friendly at all. Can’t highlight content properly and never syncs notes right when using both online web and app. It’s very frustrating that you have to deal with those difficulties when you want to read and learn effectively. The most terrible thing is it doesn’t allow you to export textbooks to other apps like pdf or notability. Very disappointed and annoying experience, hope that I bought printed textbook so don’t have to use this trash app.

Impossible to read textbook. This interface is atrociously unusable. You pay all this money for access to a textbook and then they make it near impossible to actually use or read on anything but a laptop desktop browser. The pages are misaligned, cut off any text at the top or bottom, removes images, and is generally unnavigable. I’d rate zero if I could.

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Not user friendly at all!. I got the app because I wanted to use it on my phone to listen to my text book while on walks, but it stops out of nowhere, if you turn your phone a certain way the text disappears, the audio choices that’s available is not good, and it’s jus overall not a good app!

UNBELIEVABLE that universities require/recommend this app. Can’t believe I’m stuck using this app for a grad school class. Search function doesn’t work at all: I’m reading a chapter on simple linear regression and if I search “linear regression” it tells me there are no results. Pages don’t format to even be readable: sometimes pages just don’t display any info, even zooming in and out to try different perspectives.

Does not read. Bug?. It will not read to me. It only states the type of reader and reads the title. At most it read a couple sentences and stops. Even if I select the text first, it still doesn’t work. And there’s nowhere to change the speed, it reads like a turtle.

Horrible through and through. This application is probably the worst reader app I have ever used. Every update seems to make it worse. The narration will randomly stop when it gets to a different section, highlighting is not synchronized across devices, and the layout is confusing to navigate sections of books. I switched my rental program for graduate school to get more paper books instead of this garbage reader.

Poorly Executed App. This app is very poorly executed because it cuts off the text on my iPad Pro while attempting to read the chapters. I tried to adjust my screen by flipping the iPad, but the text just disappears so I am unable to read the full chapter. Not happy with paying $150 bucks and being unable to read the chapters with any flexibility whatsoever.

Worst app from an expensive company. The app is so glitchy and unusable. So disappointing from a major company that offers books for learning. We spend so much for books but Cengage develops a subpar app ereader. Hopefully Cengage will invest in making this app usuable for students that invest in their books.

Shamefully bad ebook reader. I’m not sure why this app doesn’t use the same system as literally any other ebook reader app. Others show one page at a time in a way that fits on the screen. This app shows the pages in some strange constant stream with parts cutoff and requires pinching and zooming to read all of the text. It’s unusable!

Wish j can give it Zero stars. I never write reviews EVER but my god. THIS APP IS SOOOOOO BAD FOR SCHOOL 💀💀 u might as well stay during the night just to do some reading cause the mobile app is just terrible. You cant even flip to the next page without having a problem and if your like me who uses voice to text to follow along it’s not good either just no. never again

It’s so bad. This is a really bad app it takes forever to load it’s really confusing to use. Honestly, I prefer the previous app the cengage mobile. It was easier to take notes. I could change the theme that text to speech was better a lot easier to navigate but with this one everything I just said is thrown off the window it’s just so bad

Does the job. It logs you out sometimes, but it's fine. I definitely miss being able to see assignments and such like on the original app.

Terrible app for reading course books. The title bar at the top of the app and the progress bar at the bottom are definitely in the way of the words on the pages. Cengage cannot expect the user to keep the zoom at 75% or less. Doing so requires a magnifying glass to read the text. Terrible app design.

Surprisingly good. It is much better on iOS than windows, personally I like the interface. Although some of the text to speech reading voices are creepy (what’s up with that Cengage?)

Useless. Wow. I literally cannot scroll up and down on a page to read the pages, only left and right to turn the page. I’m no software engineer, but who got away with this? The last review was in January of this year, 2023, it’s is now December 2023. Apple puts out updates once a month it seems.

Unusable. The app was hard to use from the beginning. If I flipped through pages to quickly the book would jump to random pages. The app kept logging me out every time I closed it. Now it’s logged me out and I can’t log back in. Horrible platform.

Horrible Textbook App. Please fix the glitches!!!!!!!!! When you open the book in the app it doesn’t open to where you left off but rather someplace before that. Highlighting takes an hour bc every time you touch the screen, the page either moves or the menu pops up. You can’t enlarge with your fingers because it disfigures the page and you have to close and reopen the app several times to fix it.

Terrible system. The reading function jumps around and is not on one page. Slight touch and it starts on a different page. There is no control to the app. If the school was not requiring this program I would not use!

Great for 5 Minutes. I’ve had consistent trouble with the app bugging out and refusing to let me scroll up or down. Restarting the app and phone does not resolve the issue. Once it locks, it stays locked. Uninstalling and reinstalling the app is a counterintuitive resolution.

Impossible to read my textbook. I work full time and rarely have any down time to study so this all would have been a lifesaver had it been useable. Large portions of my textbook are cut off I am unable to adjust the page. If I would have known I would be unable to use the textbook I just spent a ton of money on I would have paid a little more to have a useable version through Kindle.

Poor iOS compatibility. Using a iPad for education cengage has the worst compatibility and iOS from web. Which is disappointing as I attempt to annotate and take notes. I hope they fix there bugs and inability to annotate quickly as using a iPad for education has been very beneficial.

Terrible Interface. Page organization is terrible and there is no option to scroll vertically. Tables also have trouble showing up and are difficult to view when they do.

Add a scroll function please. I understand that the pages can be separated from each other and swiped left to right to be read, but mat of the page gets cut off. Simply adding a scroll up and down for the page itself would suffice for the bits left out of the screen.

Avoid if you can. This app is absolutely horrible, to the point of not being functional. If you have the option of getting your book from Pearson or any other text book service … do it. The Cengage app is a piece of garbage.

Horrible company. This company scams students into paying for books and hw that don’t need to be paid for. Additionally you’re forced to use this app to view books offline instead of providing any sort of PC version

Such a downgrade. The original app was way better. This is legit trash, lacks functionality and horrible design. It’s like a first year high schooler was hired as a intern to designed and program it. I wish I didn’t have to use it for school. Cengage is very expensive and now it’s a complete waste of money for any ebook experience which is its whole business. Very sloppy and slow app.

Horrible, terrible, worst app ever. Do NOT download this app. So many things wrong with this app that it’s distracting from actually learning the material you need to focus on. Light touches trying to turn the page ends up highlighting random words and sentences. Glitches right as you get the groove in your study focus.

Horrendous awfully app. This app is god awful. It glitches, you can’t open the text all the way. Want to highlight? Too bad. Worthless. Best part if you don’t close the app on your device and try to open it the ebook on my computer, it’ll kick you out of both despite supposedly being able to use it on two devices. Stay away from this publisher if you can. Save yourself a headache… Or a migraine.

I never leave reviews. This app feels like someone at Cengage was forced to make a mobile app against their will, and they just published this sorry excuse of an app to meet shareholder expectations. Having to download textbooks just to read, having a "text-to-speech" that barely works, and being unable to do anything related to the class makes this the worst school-textbook app I've used

Terrible. This app is terrible. The book is clunky and half the time the page is blurry in between page turns for entirely too long. As of recently, my book has taken it upon its self to delete out of my library. The old Cengage app was worlds better

Avoid. This is my first time ever rating an app. This app is basically useless for reading a textbook at least on an iPad mini, because the pages are all cut off and there’s no way to scroll. Don’t bother downloading it, you’re not going be able to use it.

Review. Functionality is easy to navigate - just wish the text would resize to my screen a bit smoother.

Pages are cut off. There was another Cengage app that worked great, but it’s no longer working & I had to download this app. The pages are cut off. It should have an option to scroll down instead of swiping to get to the next page.

Cuts off/blocks text. Definitely not a good e-reader app. Text at the top and bottom is blocked from you to read unless it's a short page with the smallest font possible. They definitely need to have this fixed, especially for those who only purchase e-book. Browser is definitely better to read off of but also has flaws.

Doesn’t even show the whole page?. I would give 0 if possible. You would think the first feature of an Ereader would be to at least show the whole page. Unfortunately that was a feature that was apparently cut. On every page I miss the first 2 lines of text and the last 3 lines of text because it is covered by the controls of the app. What a giant piece of garbage.

Terrible interface/ fire your app developer. Very disappointing. This app is terrible pages are cut off randomly, text overlaps in some places not to mention all the glitches. If you guys ever get around to fixing the app I’d appreciate a dark mode. Also Idk who they have on the dev team but they should read some of the coding books that cengage provides and fix this app.

Unusable. If you have to read your textbooks on your phone, use Cengage mobile. It’s difficult but it works. I’ve had this app for five minutes and have already deleted it. It’s impossible to use. You swipe to read the pages and it will stop in the middle of the page, vertically, so you can’t read any full sentence. Quite possibly the worst app I’ve ever used. It has one job and one job only and can’t do it.

Continuous scrolling please!. Hey! The app works well enough, a bit glitchy but well enough. You already have the option to change the font and size of the text. It seems it would be really easy to add a continuous scrolling mode like kindle and Apple Books have. I find reading 10x easier when I have this option. Please add 👉👈 :)

Impossible. I downloaded this for the text to speech capability and it's a complete disaster. It doesn't allow me to access the voice settings. The settings bar slides up from the bottom of the screen then immediately disappears. And as someone noted, it reads a few words and stops. What a disappointment, especially coming from Cengage, a company that used to appear to be interested in accessibility!

Hey Cengage! Please Fix this App!. The idea behind this app is really good. It would really be nice to be able to read effectively on my phone, but that is not how this app operates. It cuts off parts of the page no matter what zoom percentage is set. It’s truly unusable and an extreme disappointment.

Worthwhile download. The app is very straightforward and easy to use. It’s annoying having to download the etextbook before you can read it, but it downloads quickly so it is not too big of a nuisance. The app does feel a little clunky.

Substandard. It’s hard to believe a company that teaches computer science developed such a bad, bad book app. Bad. Type is small. No easy way to enlarge. Interactivity and videos available on desktop unavailable here. The computerized reading voice is marginally better than the one in the 80s movie “War Games.”

Hoping to get a mobile book…. This reader is completely unusable. It feels like an app designed for iOS 3. There is so much knowledge stored in the various books housed on this site that somebody developing this app could reference to design a more stable and usable experience. This app is embarrassingly awful. I’ll just have to continue using the site for reading purposes.

Can’t access anything I purchased. Purchased a book, and it keeps loading forever and never opens. Cengage is horrible. If you’re not required to use it, you’ll be better off using another platform.

Can’t see the whole page. If a page is taller than the screen, there is no scroll bar to see the bottom of a page. The only choice is to zoom out or make the font smaller, both of which make it too small to read.

Great App!. Allows me to access my class work whenever I don’t have time or space to get my computer out. Overall good experience!

Seriously? Don’t even bother to download. This is worse than the previous app I was using for cengage. This crashes and I can’t make any adjustments to the screen so everything isn’t cut off from view. Why even bother making a cengage app when they don’t work.

Almost useless. The Cengage reader app is almost useless. No matter what size or style font it’s set to I can’t see all of the text on a page. Orientation of iPad doesn’t matter. Seriously by now these types of e-reader software are pretty standard. Sad that this developer can’t produce a basic functional piece of software.

buy book somewhere else. if I could put -5 starts, I would. do you want to tap the side of your screen to skip several pages. Oh did you mean to open a random graph? Oh sorry man did you actually mean to go 20 pages ahead and make me lose connection. Did you connect to wi-fi? There you go, please log in again. Every day? Seriously? Fighting with a stupid app is the last thing you want to do during a college class.

Lagging. I’ve been trying to use the app since the school I started uses your site. I’m in an 18 month program I just recently got the book I used for my first course this week instead of the course I’m in now. You might wanna keep up on it. Your app is useless for me so I cannot read on the go if I’m not driving or have a min to read. You might wanna fix this issue.

WORST TEXTBOOK APP DON’t EVEN BOTHER DOWNLOADING IT!!!. The worst textbook app I ever had to use. Accessibility is horrible and every page I read was cut off short. There were sentences and diagrams underneath the point of view where I had to pinch and zoom out to read. Constant glitching and pages changing.

Horrible. I thought people were being too harsh, but after using the app I really cannot believe that someone really sat down, designed, and then got the app green lighted. Completely awful it’s so buggy half of the time when I’m trying to read the pages aren’t even centered on my screen it cuts 2 half’s of 2 pages and makes it so both are unreadable. I don’t understand how someone could design such a simple app so poorly.