PDF Viewer - Annotation Expert for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By jonb-42

  The best PDF viewer and editor available for iPad

  I have tried myriad PDF editors annotators and viewersFor iOS and this is the best one hands-down. There are many reviews online that say PDF expert is the best but I beg to differ. PDF expert cannot handle all the types of annotations you may encounter when dealing with a document that comes from a more fully fledged PDF annotator on a PC or Windows. PDF viewer on the other hand can. Also PDF viewer can access the file system of the iPad and so I can open the files that are already being synchronized via dropbox or one drive etc. many other apps seem to use their own version of a file system which hides the native system from view which is very frustrating. In addition to this it renders PDFs fast. Five stars for sure.

  
  
• By Rambo8649

  Subscription madness

  I use the app to read pdf textbooks, that’s it 1) My biggest gripe is the subscription. I won’t pay a subscription for viewing PDFs, that’s ridiculus. There should be something in the middle, a fuller featured low cost one time pay version. Some of us don’t need most of the pro features. Some of us don’t need any editing features whatsoever..we just need a few of the basic UI features you have unfairly used as a lure to get us into a subscription. A few simple features is all I want, like turning off the annoying horizontal thumbnail bar at the bottom of the page, are only available with a subscription. What? 2) the performance of the app with large pdf files is not as buttery smooth as I would like. FYI, I’m using a 2018 iPad Pro, a very powerful device. Is the limitation hardware or software? I don’t know. Other than that, there are a few features that are unique to this app. One lets you easily jump back and forth between two pages you visited no matter how far apart, for free.

  
  
• By IIIIIIllIllIIIllI

  Great app, but can you add multiple colored pen?

  First of all, I really like the design of this app vs Adobe or other PDF viewers out there. I like it’s simplicity and what the free option is offering. However, there’s some minor but rather inconvenient details. 1. I use pencils with multiple colors for taking note, and I really want to have multiple pens in the tools windows of different colors. Right now, I have to open the color windows, find that new color down there, and then click again to close it, which takes more time than I used that color (to write the pronunciation of a foreign word). Can you enable customizing tool bar? I just want to pin multiple pens to the toolbar. 2. Word selection boundary is strange. When I long press to select a phrase (in Japanese), it often select 5-10 words on that line, and the boundary is somewhat unclear, and I had to adjust both sides. Other apps seem to do better in this regard, so I guess you can call the same API provided by iOS? I’m not sure if this is some unintended behavior of some Smart Selection guess algorithm that falls apart in Japanese language, but sticking to the basic one or two character seems a much better solution to me. Thanks for reading through it, and I hope this will make it to the developers.

  
  
• By Zhaohui Zhao

  THE PDF reader App for iPad, PERIOD

  I can’t believe this app!!!!!!! When my friend first recommended it to me, I almost dismissed it, as the app is free and because I’ve never came across any reader app that is even reasonably good and free at the same time. But when I, doubtably, installed and started using it, THIS APP BLOWS MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First and foremost, and I’ve been searched for an app with this feature on iPad FOREVER — direct access to my PDFs from the iCloud Drive without copying them into the app and the synchronization of my annotation to the original files, AND I’VE FINALLY FOUND IT HERE!!!!! ON A FREE APP!!!!! WHAAAAAAT???????!!!!!!!! Although its paid competitor also have this feature but it’s hidden deep and clearly you are not encouraged to open PDF directly from iCloud Drive, but in this app, the first I see is a browser interface for iCloud files, AMAZING!!!!! And the annotating experience is just so natural and intuitive: the animation for applying highlight is just sublime, and adding a note or comment is just buttery smooth. I am simply not gonna use another app for my PDFs on iPad henceforth. And honestly I’ve never expected to find the perfect PDF reader to be a FREE APP!!!!!!!! Thank you developers for such an amazing experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!

  
  
• By MeeMee 77

  Almost perfect, 2 requests.

  I love the app. It is my main application for graduate school. I upload my reading lists, articles, presentations, and books and just start annotating. It allows me to add pages anywhere within a document to either import an images of a diagram or just for additional note taking. Creating hyperlinks is another great feature. However, i have 2 requests. 1) a customisable toolbar for both full screen and split-screen modes. A customisable toolbar would help streamline my experience and save me a lot of time. 2) remove the page view from the bottom. It is annoying, it keeps taking me to a different page whenever i accidentally touch it while annotating texts.

  
  

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