iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more
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iAnnotate by Folia is the best way to read, annotate, and share PDFs, Microsoft Office files, images and web pages! Over 1 million people turn to iAnnotate to take notes, sign agreements, highlight documents, insert stamps and more.

New in v4: iPhone support, iPad Pro and multitasking support, automatic Apple Pencil detection, shape annotations, improved web markup, enhanced support for OneDrive (and OneDrive for Business), iCloud Drive, and iCloud backup.

iAnnotate’s award-winning interface and customizable set of features make it the go-to app for taking notes on lecture slides, annotating important business documents, revising screenplays, grading papers, and much more. Read on to learn about the great capabilities of iAnnotate:

IPHONE: Now you can use iAnnotate on your phone, with all of the great features you’ve come to expect on your iPad.

IPAD PRO: iAnnotate works great with the iPad Pro. Automatically annotate when you use the Apple Pencil and easily pan, zoom, scroll with your fingers — no tool switching required. Get more work done with iOS multitasking and smart keyboard shortcuts.

ANNOTATE: Choose from the pen, highlighter, typewriter, stamp, straight-line, note, underline, strikeout, photo, voice recording, arrow, rectangle, circle, and date stamp tools.

CUSTOMIZE: Drag and drop tools to your custom toolbars. Swipe between toolbars, or open the Toolbox to access all your tools.

ACCESS: Connect with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive (including OneDrive for Business) or open PDFs directly from email and other apps.

SEARCH: Search documents in your local library and throughout your cloud storage.

SHARE: iAnnotate saves your markups directly to the PDF, so they can be viewed and edited in external PDF readers.

FLATTEN: Compress your annotations onto the document to prevent modification. This is useful for preserving signatures or for preventing recipients from deleting or changing your annotations.

WEB MARKUP: Open a web capture tab and find the site you want to mark up. iAnnotate will convert it to a PDF for annotation.

NAVIGATE: Explore your documents by thumbnails, bookmarks, annotations, or search results.

UNLIMITED TABS: Open multiple documents in tabs, and easily navigate between them, on both tablet and phone.

TWO DOCUMENTS: Work on two documents side-by-side, for even greater productivity.

MANAGE: Arrange documents by folders and sort contents by date added, date last opened, or alphabetical order.

CREATE: Create brand new PDFs with blank, lined, or graph-paper pages.

MODIFY: Add, delete, rotate, and rearrange pages in your documents.

SUMMARIZE: Forward a summary of your annotations as an email or a new PDF.

SECURE: Full support for the iOS Data Protection and Keychain functions.

Interested in using iAnnotate in your business or school? Visit us at www.folia.com to find out about our enterprise options.
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User Rating

4.67 out of 5

1,337 ratings in United Kingdom

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Keeps crashing

Owl17 on

I have a routine task of filling in a PDF form with almost the same data every time, and I bought this app on the basis that it would save me time. Yes, it will copy annotations from one PDF to another, but (1) only one at a time (PLEASE make it possible to select multiple or all annotations for copy), and (2) it keeps crashing and I have to start all over again. Not worth the money for me, I want a refund.

Lots of features, somewhat glitchy UI but oh, the crashes!

Holger Pirk on

I use my iPad to correct student’s exam papers which is a lot of tedious work. One can imagine my frustration when after half an hour of annotating papers, the app just crashes and many (not quite sure why not all) of my annotations are gone. Frankly, loosing data is a big no-no for any app but for one that is used to record writing, this is particularly bad. I want to say that this isn’t a one-time event. I would say the average lifetime of this app is about 20-30 minutes. Admittedly, I have several files upon (somewhere between 20 and 40) and iAnnotate warns about that but, frankly, an app that relies on users to manually manage memory is embarrassing. Bottom line: this might be a good app some day but needs some serious software engineering to get there.

Sort-of okay

f1ash9 on

Have had this app for a couple years since buying the big iPad pro. Its a long way from being my favourite PDF reader (Goodreader is excelllent) because its prone to crashing, regularly. I keep the app and the ipad software up to date, and yet the app still crashes pretty much every time its used. Guess its just inherently unstable.

Brilliant Filling System

Cid The Merciful on

Of All the Digital filling systems I’ve tried this has been by far the best. I can keep my insurance docs, important letters, Service manuals, Handbooks, etc. All in a handy easily accessible secure place. Also add notes to manuals etc and secure them with passwords. Also I’m able to share important letters, documents, manuals etc to others via email etc. Wouldn’t be without it. Just wondering if there’s some way to link this with Windows 11 Highly Recommend it. Mr Fixit.

Poorly rewritten copy of free version

Marc G Weber on

I initially used the offline version which was well built and well designed, but didn’t back anything up and didn’t use the standard iPad cloud storage. As a consequence I switched to the paid version with cloud support - a version which is poorly implemented and full of bugs. It often doesn’t save properly and feels like a cheap rip off of the original version to earn some money.

full stops and decimal points wont export!

cal3453x42w on

it can be really confusing when annotated decimal points aren’t exported in this latest version. Is there a fix?

My preferred pdf app

Migayuso on

Being using this app since 2013 on my iPad Air 2. Can markup easily and open different tabs. Did an upgrade for my new iPad and had to do a wee payment. App is Really worth it!

What went wrong?

Barnstaple on

The app used to be amazing, but ever since the update it crashes every few minutes. I’m a professional audiobook narrator and use this app the whole time. Sadly if it doesn’t get fixed I’ll have to abandon it and find an alternative app.

Latest updates mean app not saving

white2990864538265 on

Following the latest update (Nov 14, 2021) the app is no longer working on WiFi and I cannot save my work. This is affecting my business. Please fix it ASAP!

Using iAnnotate

Hollow person on

I have been using this app ever since I had my first iPad. I use it to put comments on dissertations that my students send me. It very quickly converts from Word documents. There are also a lot of icons for searching, navigating and putting comments and highlights onto the text. It also saves automatically. My only request is to make it more compatible with other devices and software. Sometimes, when my students receive the PDF they cannot see the comments when using Adobe, for example. Also, it would be good to be able to use iAnnotate in the same way on my PC or Mac desktop. It would also be good to import pictures.

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App Info

Publisher
Branchfire, Inc.
Languages
English
Recent version
4.8.15 (1 week ago )
Released on
May 3, 2016 (8 years ago )
Last updated
4 weeks ago