• EasyBib

Overview

EasyBib has a rating of 1.1 stars from 124 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about EasyBib most frequently mention many ads, free trial, and customer service problems. EasyBib ranks 298th among Writing sites.

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  • These are videos that claim to give you 48 hours of uninterrupted access, but it's really more like 3.
  • It's still ok for MLA format stuff, but even that has become more difficult to navigate.
How would you rate EasyBib?
Top Positive Review

“Best Citation Source”

abdulmoiz k.
3/8/16

Easybib is the best, it allows you to make a bibliography in a second and export it to any writing document in a second. There are many other benefits to it but the list would be too long (chuckle) (chuckle).:>:>:>:>:>:>. Thank You Easybib, You're the best

Top Critical Review

“Literally all advertisements: try to find something better to use than this piece of shit”

I hate Chegg and Easybib s.
3/18/24

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

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48 hours (3) mla format (4)
Thumbnail of user ihatec2
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 18th, 2024

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

Tip for consumers:
Never use it unless you like hurting yourself physically or mentally

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Thumbnail of user vm158
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1 helpful vote
March 8th, 2022

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.

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Thumbnail of user susanr3464
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 27th, 2023

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.

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3 helpful votes
March 22nd, 2022

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.

Tip for consumers:
$#*! you

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don't use it

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1 helpful vote
May 16th, 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.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
October 6th, 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.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
June 2nd, 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.

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Thumbnail of user eddiel212
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 7th, 2023

Easybib is so mother$#*!ing stupid. It thinks adblock is on when I've disabled it. I think they are doing this so you have to pay so they pretend you have adblock on to scam you. Used to be good but now its some scummy bull$#*!

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Thumbnail of user dana631
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 23rd, 2022

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.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
June 4th, 2022

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.

Thumbnail of user jamies738
1 review
5 helpful votes
March 11th, 2021

Its like they tried to cram every single space possible with ads and then fill your page up with popups for their plagiarism service, plus making you watch even more ads

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Thumbnail of user hjugyftryuhikolpkijv
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1 helpful vote
January 18th, 2022

Millions of ads runnin at two $#*!in frames a second the whole time $#*!. Eat my $#*!hole from the back and smell my $#*! while you do it $#*!. Fix your do$#*! website. Thank you for your time.

Tip for consumers:
Dont

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Easybib $#*! what the $#*! are you on

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Thumbnail of user jacobb923
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 17th, 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.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
May 31st, 2022

One of the worst websites I have ever used. Terrible experience. It is just so slow and has so many adds, making it not "easy" and actually very hard.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
September 15th, 2022

I signed up for free trial but after trying to cancel it the 3rd day it said my purchase had already been made…. ‍Thanks a lot of scamming me easybib

Thumbnail of user iamnotsigningupn
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 16th, 2021

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.

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Thumbnail of user aa407
1 review
6 helpful votes
December 10th, 2020

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

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Thumbnail of user bunsm
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1 helpful vote
April 24th, 2021

Easybib provides an absolutely terrible service, it is filled to the brim with advertisements, slow as hell, and has extraneous pages which only exist to show you more advertisements.

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1 helpful vote
July 20th, 2021

This website used to be so good before the constant ads and redirecting you to get their free 3 day membership.

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2 helpful votes
February 21st, 2021

Super slow, makes my computer get VERY hot, oh and not to mention that there are upwards of FIVE ads on every page. AND you have to watch ANOTHER ad before you can make another citation! Also, you can't cite anything but MLA8 without making an account. Use Citation Machine instead. Easybib used to be good but now is a dumpster fire of a website.

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1 review
8 helpful votes
November 15th, 2020

Originally easy bib was simple and useful for students of all age levels. Certain things were restricted but honestly, it wasn't anything major, I may even have been willing to buy. Once it was purchased by Chegg study it became awful. I understand a website needs to make money but easy bib crams every single possible surface with an advertisement to the point that the website runs extremely slowly. Even with a good computer. It is absurd.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
January 27th, 2021

There are ~25 ads on one page. There are usually at least a few video ads, which slow down my computer and make the website slow as $#*!. This website is almost as useless as an electric outlet in a bathtub. I strongly recommend that you avoid it.

Tip for consumers:
Use citefast or literally anything else.

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MLA Citation Machine

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Thumbnail of user tg198
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 14th, 2021

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!

Tip for consumers:
BAHAHAHAHAH no tips. Get out while you can.

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Thumbnail of user abdulmoizk
1 review
2 helpful votes
March 8th, 2016

Easybib is the best, it allows you to make a bibliography in a second and export it to any writing document in a second. There are many other benefits to it but the list would be too long (chuckle) (chuckle).:>:>:>:>:>:>.

Thank You Easybib,
You're the best

Thumbnail of user jacobw143
1 review
3 helpful votes
January 10th, 2020

I needed to create chicago style citations for a paper, so I decided I would get the free trial to be able to do this. All of a sudden, I was unable to cite anything, as it said I needed to upgrade. I already did that, so I figured that I could sign out, and after signing out there was no way for me to sign back in. I couldn't click on anything, so I decided it would be easier to just manually do them. What a waste of time.

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