Cengage Read

Name: Cengage Read
Rating: 4.2 (3987 reviews)
Author: Cengage Learning

By: Cengage Learning App

Education

Overview

Version:

2.0

Last updated: 2026-07-26

Ranking

#30,501 ▲ 69

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Cengage Read lets students access eTextbooks on the go, study anytime, anywhere. It supports notes, highlights, and bookmarks to capture key ideas, and includes a text-to-speech feature to listen to content.

Navigate quickly with a searchable text, and jump to pages via the table of contents. After logging in with your Cengage credentials, you can sync, search, and study across devices.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Education Accessibility Content

By:

Cengage Learning

Rating:

4.20

(3,987) 28 new ratings

Version:

2.0 Last updated: 2026-07-26

Version code:

885578853

Creation date:

2023-01-04

Compatible devices:

Size:

46.06MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-01

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 30,501 ▲ 69

Other platforms

Cengage Read (v1.1.8)

256,016 3.66

(1,020)

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Developed by:

Cengage Learning

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cengage-read/id6444260893

User Reviews

Cengage Read is helpful for mobile study with features like highlights, notes, and read-aloud audio, plus cross-device access. However, it suffers from frequent freezes and errors, unreliable highlighting, poor navigation, and login issues. The app also requires internet for reading, limiting offline use. Overall, it’s useful for on-the-go reading but plagued by reliability problems that hinder consistent study sessions.

Pros

On-the-go access to textbooks with cross-device login and the ability to listen to textbooks (audio reading).
Highlighting with multiple colors and note-taking features that aid studying.
Text-to-speech/read-aloud option for hands-free study.
User-friendly interface that makes reading on mobile easy and convenient.
Useful for studying and reading when a computer isn’t available.

Cons

Frequent freezing, crashes, and startup/download errors that make the app unreliable.
Robotic, glitchy text-to-speech that often doesn’t load or cuts in and out.
Highlighting/notes are unreliable (highlights may not save; difficult to export; navigation/citation is clunky).
Login/authentication issues and inconsistent access (sign-in failures; spinner/“error occurred” messages).
Limited offline access and dependence on internet; reading can be impossible without connectivity.

Recent reviews

The app runs smoother yes. But the search bar had a big downgrade. Be careful to not put any words that are used frequently in your book. And don’t try to look up definitions for keywords the and, like and or words will show every single chapter in your book. It can be managed but you have to be careful with the way you search now and where you search. Went from smart search engine to dumb search engine.

by $$*****, 2026-08-20

I’ve been at this for over an hour with signing in and out, refreshing, uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing. It won’t even let me search for the book in the search bar. As someone constantly on the go I can’t always have my laptop on me so being able to at least access the book through the app to read would be nice.