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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Loving the app so far! Some small items
This is a very nice app, I enjoyed it to read documentations and add notes with my iPad. The integration with online storage is nice too. I will update the review with more detail after I used it for a bit longer.
There are a couple small suggestions already
1. I organize things on dropbox, and the folder is a few levels down from the root. At the moment it is not clear how to add the folder into a more easily accessible place (now I need to click through it every time which takes ~1 minute)
2. Storing on local = in some internal place not accessible from the files app. If it can be a folder there things can be more versatile.
Easy to use
The app is so easy to use. I love the convenience of carrying an iPad as opposed to papers.
No Real Flexibility
I am beginning to wonder which reviews are real and which are not. This is now the second pdf app that I’ve tried to use and the flexibility of it to pull files from iCloud and work on them, or notes, and “thought” I saved them is not real. I am happy that I did airdrop the 12 pdf’s I marked up and returned to students with feedback otherwise I would have lost them completely. They are not saved, or stored on the app as it seems to imply, and there is no way to save them on iCloud as I thought I would be able to so that I can access later. I was very much disappointed with how this app does not do or have all the functions it says it does or do. The eraser for it is also hard to use as easily as you would expect, marking and utilizing the tools are also not as easy as they say.
Their customer service…I have yet to hear back from them with regards to my above requests to find out where those files have been stored because there is nothing with in the app or on my iPad, or on my iCloud. So those files have been lost, except for the sent ones to my students.
Do not buy, I think many of these reviews are fake like many other pdf apps. I am very much disappointed with this.
Indispensable tool
I use this extensively for my trial work and for signing documents daily
IAnnotate
Great program. Have used it for 10 years in flight training. Could not have been as effective without it. Much better than BadReader
Love this!
With my iPad and the Apple Pencil, annotating is sooo much easier than with Adobe and those types of editing/annotating software. I’d highly recommend this.
No Eraser!!!
How do you use the eraser in this app? How come no eraser in the tool box? That’s nuts!!!
Excellent value, very dependable
I just finished editing and proofing a 40,000 word novel using a combination of iAnnotate and Libre Office word processor. My main concerns were that none of the changes I made would be lost, and that the documents created would not have any technical problems. iAnnotate performed really well and I will use it for all of my work in future. Here’s why. 1) It’s not a subscription app. I refuse to buy any subscription app, and this one is very reasonably priced. In fact, it’s a bargain. 2) It handled every editing, proofreading, and markup task easily. And it did this with no mistakes, and only minor inconveniences. The two inconveniences are that the eraser tool takes a bit of getting used to, and the file management system of iPad is confusing. But once that is figured out, all is quite smooth. (Apple Pencil users, it’s necessary to tap the marked up text with your finger to get the eraser option, then select the eraser tool, and then use the Apple Pencil to do the actual erasing.) There is one other odd quirk: I loaded my 68 page document into the app, but as I edited, I found that the document stopped at around 40 pages. The last 20 or so pages did not appear. However, closing the document and opening it again solved this problem. I think the problem occurs only when I use the iPad file manager to send the document to the app. When I open the document directly from the app, I think the problem does not happen. In any case, it did not cause any data loss, so it’s not too big a deal. An excellent app.
Great App
Have it for years for PDF docs and ebooks
Great but missing 1 key feature
Great consistent app but missing 1 key feature - being able to open a website and pdf the page. Some websites can’t be exported correctly from Safari. PDF Expert can do this but I prefer iAnnotate.
