Reviews of Kortext ebooks & etextbooks

By: Kortext App

List of user reviews and ratings for Kortext ebooks & etextbooks

Total ratings

2.16 (Rating count: 914)

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Review summary

Kortext app offers useful features like a centralized library, offline PDFs, highlighting, and annotating. However, multiple users report frequent crashes, poor navigation, and awkward zooming. The read aloud feature is problematic. Login issues and slow or failed page loading are common. The interface is not user-friendly on small devices with obstructive menus. Additionally, lack of features like position saving and citation tools, along with poor image handling, diminish usability. Overall, while the app meets basic e-textbook needs, its numerous bugs and usability problems frustrate users.

Pros

Allows purchasing and saving textbooks to a personal library, reducing physical books needed
Supports highlighting, bookmarking and annotating within texts
Can save PDFs offline for access without internet
Available across multiple devices including phones, tablets, and PC
Provides a centralized place for study materials and textbooks

Cons

App frequently crashes or freezes, affecting usability
Poor scrolling and page navigation, including problems turning pages and confusing numbering
Zooming is awkward; inability to zoom in on images or maintain zoom level
Read aloud feature is unreliable, stopping after each page and reading text poorly
Login and content loading issues, including login loops and failed content loading
Lack of useful features like remembering reading position, continuous flow for ePubs, and citation tools
Interface is clunky and not optimized for small screens; menu bars obstruct reading space
No option to download books for offline use outside app, with downloads stopping if app is exited

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 1.30

All time rating average: 2.16

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Date	Author	Comment
2026-07-24	Li*****	terrible ui the app is so laggy each page takes like 2 mintues to load and lags all over the place such a workaround with their garbage partners might actually be the worst app idle ever had to deal with
terrible ui the app is so laggy each page takes like 2 mintues to load and lags all over the place such a workaround with their garbage partners might actually be the worst app idle ever had to deal with
2026-07-21	Ro*****	I hope whoever made this app feels a deep sense of embarrassment. You've actually made learning harder, slower, generally worse, and I hope you're ashamed of having created this app and hindering students from learning. Would give zero stars if I could this thing has crashed, lost places, failed to copy, and doesn't even load correctly. Absolute failure on the devs behalf, I hope you lose sleep equal to the time lost studying.
I hope whoever made this app feels a deep sense of embarrassment. You've actually made learning harder, slower, generally worse, and I hope you're ashamed of having created this app and hindering students from learning. Would give zero stars if I could this thing has crashed, lost places, failed to copy, and doesn't even load correctly. Absolute failure on the devs behalf, I hope you lose sleep equal to the time lost studying.
2026-07-19	Sa*****	Hard to navigate books once you've found them. Scrolling doesn't work properly. You find yourself missing pages and then can't get back to where you were. Not the best or most useful online reader
Hard to navigate books once you've found them. Scrolling doesn't work properly. You find yourself missing pages and then can't get back to where you were. Not the best or most useful online reader
2026-07-02	Th*****	If you can buy a hardcopy(s) ... Rather spend your money there.
If you can buy a hardcopy(s) ... Rather spend your money there.
2026-06-24	Ky*****	Slow to use, crashes often, won't let me search more than 1 term in a row without closing the app. Text to speech is some of the worst I've seen. I'm glad it gives access to textbooks, but the user experience needs work, a lot of work.
Slow to use, crashes often, won't let me search more than 1 term in a row without closing the app. Text to speech is some of the worst I've seen. I'm glad it gives access to textbooks, but the user experience needs work, a lot of work.
2026-06-23	Ra*****	Read Aloud doesn't work. It stops, and you have to constantly press the play button.
Read Aloud doesn't work. It stops, and you have to constantly press the play button.
2026-06-22	ka*****	not loading all pages
not loading all pages
2026-06-21	Vi*****	It's the most terrible APP I ever use. It is not possible possible use it either online and offline. It works maybe 20 min. and download the next page forever. the APP needs to restart my tablet to continue.
It's the most terrible APP I ever use. It is not possible possible use it either online and offline. It works maybe 20 min. and download the next page forever. the APP needs to restart my tablet to continue.
2026-06-20	Lu*****	This is the worst platform i have ever used. what is the reason of having an app when you cant read your book on it?? Costumer support is worthless 2 weeks and they still havent fix the issue
This is the worst platform i have ever used. what is the reason of having an app when you cant read your book on it?? Costumer support is worthless 2 weeks and they still havent fix the issue
2026-06-15	Al*****	If you love educational barriers and overpaying for rented textbooks, this app is for you. It's basically a bad PDF reader with no dark mode, awful zoom, mismatched page numbers, a frustrating highlighter, and limits on copying or printing content you paid for. Pearson's greed is on full display. The app is clunky, poorly designed, and only survives because students are forced to use it for required course materials
If you love educational barriers and overpaying for rented textbooks, this app is for you. It's basically a bad PDF reader with no dark mode, awful zoom, mismatched page numbers, a frustrating highlighter, and limits on copying or printing content you paid for. Pearson's greed is on full display. The app is clunky, poorly designed, and only survives because students are forced to use it for required course materials