Lean Library

Kathleen Esfahany2026年4月14日

★★★★★1

The Sciwheel extension worked seamlessly, while this new one breaks constantly and does not allow use of the reference manager without significant effort. I've had to delete and re-install this repeatedly since it keeps breaking and removing the reference manager functionality. I am fully moving away from Lean Library now and looking into other reference managers.

Suffyan Saiyed2026年3月12日

★★★★★5

Lean Library / Lean Library Workspace has to be one of the best tools I have ever used! This browser extension allowed me to see libguides that my institution had set up to support me through websites I may not be familiar with! I was able to get access seamlessly via Open Access to Full Text Articles :D the One Click to PDF feature is so useful! Man, I do not have to look through a maze to find the PDF I am looking for. Lean Library Workspace previously Sciwheel is so much better, it's refreshed and updated and I love how the UI integrated nicely into LL making it truly enjoyable experience. The support team are very helpful, from any technical queries I may have needed to just general questions, they respond quickly and their newsletter keeps me up to date with new features and developments! The team are doing a fantastic job! Would highly recommend downloading and sharing with friends and family, especially anyone who is starting out new at university!

L Boegel2026年2月15日

★★★★★2

Opens scite_ for no reason without permission, even when the entire extension is turned off. turns itself on again. extremely annoying.

Oleg Onishchenko2025年12月17日

★★★★★5

Ok!

Iryna Elizabetha2025年12月12日

★★★★★5

I've been a Sciwheel user for years, and I'm now in the third year of my PhD. Lean Library Workspace is great, it's like Sciwheel but with useful extras. I really like that I can now use Lean to find open access articles, it makes life a lot easier and saves me having to root around for a free version of the article I want to read. Saving articles is easy and while highlighting can be a bit off sometimes, issues happen so rarely for me now so I think something must have been updated for the better.

Daniela Gil2025年12月2日

★★★★★1

Terrible at highlighting on scientific articles. The highlight either saves in the workspace but not the page so I have to refresh the page for each new one to appear, saves incompletely on the page (incomplete on the page, okay in the workspace, which is unideal when I'm actively reading), or does not highlight at all so I have to refresh the page to save a single highlight (and refresh again to save each new one). I also don't appreciate that it does not ask what subfolder to save the article to upon the first highlight, the way Sciwheel used to. Sciwheel had a great system, I used it for 4 years with no complaints. Somehow Lean Library's acquisition has overcomplicated the extension and made it less functional. I've been hesitant to start over with a new citation manager since I have over a thousand articles saved, so I've been waiting for the initial bugs to be resolved. However, my patience is wearing thin as time goes on and issues remain unaddressed, and I'm increasingly tempted to jump ship on this one. I hope changes come soon.

Mahmud Maishanu2025年12月1日

★★★★★5

Excellent

Medick Manuel Castillo Gutierrez2025年11月17日

★★★★★5

Muy bueno la verdad, recomendado para hacer trabajos. Mejor que otros gestores bibliográficos. Me gustaría que tuviera al menos 5 folders en la versión gratis, tal vez estoy pidiendo mucho XD

Quinten2025年11月6日

★★★★★2

Another problem with YouTube: the scroll bar disappears and you can't scroll at all. As with everyone else it took a good deal of turning extensions off and on to find it was Lean Library.

Kgosietsile Mokone2025年11月2日

★★★★★2

Hi guys, Great tool, but currently there is a bug that makes YouTube notifications disappear on the desktop site. The issue is confirmed to be with this extension. Please report bug to your official developer channels. I will update this review after it is fixed. A 5 star extension extension that needs a fix for students who also enjoy youtube (many people).