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Maine
1 review
1 helpful vote
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There once was a time in which this site met expectations, and was used by college students across the globe. However, it is clear to everyone, including myself, now that this website is nothing but pure rubbish. While their citation algorithm is admittedly useful, and (to an extent) advanced in its information scraping methods, it is simply no longer viable for use. Why, you may ask? Well, my dearest reader, this is due to a little thing known as "advertisements". Yes, you heard that correctly! EasyBib has made it very clear that that do not care about your experience, so much so to the point in which the website lags due to the sheer amount of ads and popups it attempts to shill out now, which was never the case in the past. No worries, though; you can pay a pointless hefty fee to remove these ads and have the site be functional once more!...What a shameful corpse of a once beloved website.

Date of experience: January 22, 2025
Missouri
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This website used to be alright before the age of Chegg, when all it was, was a bibliography generator. Now the site is clogged up beyond repair, with ads covering most of the screen and the website chugging any computer down to 2 frames per second. Even directly connected to the best modem I own, the site runs like it's on dial-up. Use NoodleTools or literally anything else. Not even mentioning that this site is recommended for children and it is advertising cannabis.

Date of experience: March 8, 2022
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awful
October 6, 2022

I used EasyBib in the years preceding their acquisition by Chegg for my undergraduate and both my graduate thesis and thought it was a great service.
Now I find the site completely unusable. There are so many ads that are all so badly configured that it's impossible to even use the website, it's a time suck, a headache and a quick way to get vertigo with all of the simultaneously playing ads jumping around the page. Truly a terrible experience, I would rather find an old APA guide and hand configure citations than ever have to go on this site again.

Date of experience: October 6, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have used this before and tolerated the high number of ads, but recently, so many of them appear on the screen that the website can not even function without buffering for at least 7-8 minutes. It is frankly useless at this point.

Date of experience: June 4, 2022
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Hate it
June 2, 2023

I used to love easybib! It was my high school self's best resource, but now as a college student, it's unusable. The ads are annoying even without the 30 second ad watch. The site itself is completely corrupted. It has gotten so bad that it crashes my computer anytime I want to use it.

Date of experience: June 2, 2023
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Garbage Website.
May 16, 2022

The website itself is a pain to navigate, with a ridiculous amount of ads being thrown in my face every 5 seconds. It forces you to watch a video or subscribe to it in order to use more than one citation, and it's incredibly slow. It takes my school laptop (which is the only thing I use the website for) 10 minutes to do 3 citations, with my high speed home wifi struggling to get it to run well also. Overall just a garbage website.

Date of experience: May 16, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I used to utilize Easybib for all of my assignments in the past, which had become a vital resource for my papers, however, with the enforcement of their advertisements. Easy Bib has made it where you can even properly use their website for using their citations. Every attempt I make to watch the advertisement, the website crashes or remains on a blank page without playing the damn advertisement. Thanks, Easybib for nothing.

Date of experience: July 27, 2023
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This website is almost unusable nowadays. When I try to cite on my Chromebook using this website, it gives me several pop up add accompanied by 5 side ads. When I try to cite more than 2 sources, it also forces me to watch an "interactive" ad or pay $10 a month for this service. I am never using Easybib again.

Date of experience: November 16, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I used to use this website back when it wasn't plagued with advertisements everywhere. Now, you can't even navigate through the website without having to click X on multiple pop-up ads. Tried using an ad-blocker, but it blocks access to the site until you turn it off. I would definitely recommend using another citation website than this greedy $#*! company

Date of experience: March 18, 2024
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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When a website is so $#*!ing terrible, that means it spends so much time on adds that it can't preform any other function. This website doesn't even work half the time, missing the publisher and date almost every time when citing a source as well as not even fully creating a citation and instead presenting you with a little $#*!ing "work cited" title. Do not use, do not let them get money, the creators of this deserve to starve and burn in hell.

Date of experience: March 22, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The program is difficult to use when editing a paper. The product is expensive and very hard to cancel subscription in a timely manner. You are not able to cancel over phone unless you text and the customer service is not restorative or use best practices. Basically the product is weak and cause more issues than it is worth.

Date of experience: March 23, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Downhill
July 17, 2023

Used to be a good useful website for easy, straight-forward citations. Now you can't even use it with adblocker, and you have to pay for a membership to even use APA format. Terrible, greedy website now. Will never use again. And I recommend you don't either.

Date of experience: July 17, 2023
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Easybib is so mother$#*!ing stupid. It thinks adblock is on when I've disabled it. I think they are doing this so you have to pay so they pretend you have adblock on to scam you. Used to be good but now its some scummy bull$#*!

Date of experience: April 7, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The only good thing i have to say about EasyBib is that its awful user experience made me learn how to do MLA citations by myself because the site is completely unusable. I used to use EasyBib exclusively for over 10 years, now the site has at least 4 ads on the screen at a time and of course refuses to work if it detects adblock. I don't know whether it has to do with Chegg buying them or what, it's become atrocious. Because of the dozen obnoxiously obtrusive ads and popups, my macbook's poor little GPU slows to a standstill and overheats the moment i type "easybib.com" into the URL bar and hit enter. The site is so unusable, it's genuinely hilarious.

If you have to cite something, you are much better off citing manually.

Avoid EasyBib like the plague!

Date of experience: December 14, 2021
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Based on this video Easybib used to be better. Click on the link I put, or go to youtube, search "How to Cite a Website MLA" click on the that's by Andy Isom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzlexLa5ZHQ&t=125s

Date of experience: May 8, 2021
Rhode Island
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Easybib doesn't let you cite more than one thing at once, and it's a total pain in the $#*! because of how many ads there are. Better than Manual Citation, grateful it exists, but wish it was more efficient.

Date of experience: March 29, 2019
New York
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Used to be a decent site, but now virtually everything is behind a pay wall that doesn't even work. I tried upgrading since the only citations you can get for free now are MLA, and then the whole site became infuriatingly unusable. I can no longer access my citation list, and every time I click something on the site, I get bounced back to the page asking me to input my credit card information for the easybib plus free trial (which I already filled out). Customer service is no help at all. Save your time, money and much frustration by using literally any other citation generator site. Heck, creating the citation manually would be easier at this point than using this garbage site.

Date of experience: May 8, 2020
Mississippi
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Weak Writers Beware
April 16, 2021

I uploaded a 3 page article review for analysis. The numerous resulting recommendations/suggestions were not US standard English spelling and unfortunately, the system offered improper subject/verb agreement. I wanted accurate feedback, but instead, I'm having to critique a service that fails to provide.

Date of experience: April 16, 2021
Colorado
1 review
6 helpful votes
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It's literally more ad than website. Between the permanent ads and videos surrounding the site and the forced interaction ones after ever citation, this website is the most irritating one I've ever used. It was perfectly fine a few years ago but it's just utter trash now. It frequently deletes my lists, won't load, and crashes all the time. Please fix this, so many students are suffering because of it

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
10 helpful votes
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They sold out
December 1, 2017

Easybib used to be a great resource to use when citing sources, but the quality has gone downhill drastically. The page is packed with more ads than actual site content and they make you interact with the ads before you can cite sources. If that isn't gaining success then selling out I don't know what is.

Date of experience: December 1, 2017

Overview

EasyBib has a rating of 1.5 stars from 125 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with EasyBib most frequently mention many ads, free trial and customer service. EasyBib ranks 314th among Writing sites.

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