Revel by Pearson

• Free

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.7 8884 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Good concept, needs bug fixes

   I like the way the app is set up and everything, but sometimes the audio function does not want to play and you have to press the play button like ten times to get it to work — not the best for commuters. Another inconvenience is that sometimes it will read through the whole chapter, whereas other times the audio will stop after every page — again, very annoying when you’re driving or multitasking. Finally, I would like to see an assignments tab that clearly lists the writing assignments still left to do. Right now they are located sporadically at the bottom of the pages which makes it difficult to see what you need to get done, especially when listening to the audio. Please address these problems and this will be an excellent app!

   just another reviewer 1579 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 3/5Good start, but needs fine-tuning

   I have had no overwhelming issues with the app, audio and reading both seem to work. However, to get this app to something I'd actually find useful, there are a few quality of life things that need to be fixed. (1) Highlighting - when highlighting text the pop up that lets you choose a color is poorly placed. More often than not, it pops up directly over what I intend to highlight. A better solution would be to have it always appear above my initial selection. (2) Notes export - when exporting notes, Revel truncates the note after around 150 characters. Anything after that does not get exported, which often makes note export to PDF useless. Removing the truncation from note export will make it a feature that can actually be used. (3) Sync across devices either takes too long or simply doesn’t work. Fixing this to operate like other digital textbook platforms would put this top of class.

   seanosaur · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5Terrible and annoying

   The app is poorly organized and has very annoying tendencies. For instance, when I try to highlight a section of text, it for some reasons will automatically scroll to the very top of the page. I could stop it but when I released my finger it continued to scroll up. When it reaches the top of the page it just stays there. If I try to scroll down it will again scroll itself to the top by itself. I have to close the app to make it work again. I just need to highlight a simple definition but can’t, which makes my homework assignment take even longer. When I registered for a new course it refused to download. It would just show 0% and do nothing. Then it finally started to download after closing the app multiple times, but once it reached 100% it somehow went back to the little cloud icon and showed 0% again. It wouldn’t let me open the course either. I ended up just deleting the app and tried again and it finally worked. I’m a busy college student, I don’t have the time to try to get this stupid app to work properly so I can study and do my homework.

   ArtificialSmiles · 31 Jul 2026

4. 3/5Good but has very bad tendencies

   I like having my text book on my laptop/phone but what is the point if the highlight feature that was implemented only works at times.. I like to read the text, highlight the important stuff as I go, then go back to it and take notes when i finish that whole section. On numerous occasions I have came back my highlights/notes were not saved. I am double majoring, dont have a lot of time to have to go back to re read and highlight what I ALREADY did. please fix that. the few times the highlighting works it’s not up to it’s full potential, for ex. — I highlight stuff on the app/website but if I switch over from one to the other it & it isn’t there — I highlight on phone thru the app OR laptop highlight thru website, then switch to other device its not on THAT device if that makes sense. so I have to switch back to my device I original took notes on to see my work on that section. that also should be fixed. other than that, great.

   Classysassy917 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 2/5Incompatibility (iPad 9th-gen)

   The concept of this app is great, however it falls short because of its interface. I believe this app would benefit highly from a portrait-view mode instead of being stuck in landscape. (In fact, I thought the problems I was having with compatibility stemmed from a bug that didn’t allow me to switch to portrait mode.) In addition to making textbooks much easier to read, it would solve the problem of embedded files and review questions being squished to the point of being unreadable/inoperable. Review questions would be missing some of their answer choices, and the format just looked horrible; despite having so much space on the margins, the text just decided to squish in the center of the box, taking up a mere 20-30% area of the whole square. Please add a portrait mode or at least address the bugs that I just mentioned because at this point, this app is unusable and pointless compared to the web version.

   kloqii · 31 Jul 2026

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