PDF Cabinet

I’ve been using this app to save PDFs including recipes, CVs, and other documents of all kinds. I love that they can be annotated and shared with/without my notes, and saved into folders so they can be found again. It’s one of the most intuitive apps on my iPad. In fact, I’ve got so much important stuff in there that it occurred to me I would be lost if I couldn’t access it! Please tell me if you ever plan to discontinue it, which I hope won’t happen. Some suggestions for developers- it would be fab if docs could be shared to social media straight from the app, or be put on a clipboard so they could be pasted wherever. Also, make it usable on an iPhone? Although I know it would be difficult to read/annotate etc, I would find it useful to be able to save straight to the app from my phone rather than having to email myself docs to later save on my iPad. In the meantime, I thoroughly recommend it and urge you to try it!!

As a long term user of the Cabinet app I was both surprised and delighted to see that an update was available. Over the ten plus years I’ve relied on this app it has served me well despite having a collection of several hundred PDF’s, some of them 200mb plus in size. A handful of crashes have occurred and many times the app would only relaunch after a cold reset of the iPad. Hopefully this update will improve the stability still further. The one feature I do really miss is the ability to add new folders that will sync with iCloud. However, the folders I had already set to sync on an older version of this app still sync flawlessly. It is important to me to have all my PDF’s backed up. Perhaps the developer(s) might consider reinstating his feature? (Please!) I blushingly admit that I have had brief dalliances with many other pdf apps but this is the only one that I would marry - it is a superb app and used daily.

This app is really leaning into design over function. Apple has moved away from Skeuomorphism (they fired Scott Forstall for it) making this app feel extremely dated. Add to that the very limited functionally over things like GoodNotes or PDFExpert and I wonder why anyone would use this app.

Downgraded from 5 Stars to 1. Where has the iCloud sync backup feature gone please? Update: Developer response was that the iCloud sync feature has been removed, possibly permanently, as many people were losing data after using it. Such a pity - I’ll now have to move all my PDF’s to GoodReader. Old review: This is now my 'go-to' application for pdf's. Great markup features, easy to sort into categories and unlike ibooks you can actually get documents out into other applications. Heartily recommended.

Five stars, without hesitation. There is, however, one thing missing for me: stickers / stamps (which help me to visually categorise and tag particular paragraphs I read). This hasn't been overlooked though, it would be nice, but it clearly wasn't part of the desired effect.

I downloaded this app a few days ago and I'm very impressed, having tried so many in this category. Lots of little surprises that all come together with ease.

Good app but can't use as the minimum thickness for stylus is also damn thick Documents look ugly after these thick writings Appreciate if u could release a version with these recommendations to revert back to 5 star rating

This is one of the best apps for PDFs annotation - the really important feature for me is that it has an eraser to wipe any part of free-hand annotation. It is the only PDF annotator I know of with this feature - for all others generally you have to delete the whole free-hand annotation. To the contrary, with the eraser this app works closer to a drawing app. The interface is also very user friendly and intuitive. Another interesting feature is that it is possible to share the annotations on their own, rather than the whole annotated file. It also has a nice filing system to organise the files in the app, as well as Dropbox integration (it also integrated with Google Drive). Just three suggestions for improvement: 1. It would be fantastic if this app could work with Split Screen, as it would increase its usability enormously; 2. Currently free hand annotation come out as slightly unfocused, as if the ink had seeped into porous paper :-) It would be great if these could be in focus 3. Integration with MEGA cloud would also be great This aside, I am greatly enjoying this app, and thank the developers wholeheartedly for making it available!

I thoroughly researched & tried many available apps in this category. This is the best by far .... and it's free!!! Many thanks for this brilliant app!

The last time I felt compelled to review an app must have been about 6 years ago! This is a must have if you plan on using a lot of PDFs on your iPad. The best part is that it's free considering its miles ahead of many of the paid PDF annotation apps.