iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more

Jest gorzej! W nowej wersji łącza wewnątrz dokumentu PDF przestały działać.

Zależało mi na plikach do przeglądania PDF'ów z możliwością naruszenia notatek i dobrą synchronizacją z Google Drive. Ta wypadła najlepiej. Notatki w PDF'ach zrobione za jej pomocą lub Acrobata wyglądają podobnie i mają podobne umiejscowienia. W nie wszystkich aplikacjach tak dobrze to działa. Synchronizacja w Google Drive też jest super. Polecam. Testowałem poza tą aplikacją: Adobe Acrobat (kłopoty z synchronizacją z Google Drive) , PDF Expert (jak wyżej), Foxit PDF (darmowy, ma swoją wersję na iPhone, iPad i Windows, bardzo dobra synchronizacja z Google Drive ale nie odzwierciedla tak dobrze notatek jak iAnnotate. Gdyby nie iAnnotate wybrałbym Foxit PDF.

I bought version 4 (to replace the ageing Goodreader), but it is a big disappointment! I expected that version 3 (which was excellent) would be a starting point, but it was not. The only benefit of version 4 is the ability to use it on an iPhone (version 4 supported only iPads). Version 4 misses: multiple tabs (a great feature of version 3) - one could work in one document, but opened in multiple tabs; and the convenience of highlighting and copying text of version 3 - now when I want to include highlighted text in a note, I need to make five(!) actions: select - copy, select - highlight, accept highlight, add text to note, accept note... A nightmare compared to version 3 in which all those actions could be completed with just one text selection... Some small bugs still exist.

The app is missing Apple Pencil Pro squeeze gestures. Other than that, it is good. IAnnotate would be great if it could take full advantage of the squeeze gesture for the pencil pro.

Pencil pro squeeze gesture to bring up eraser seems to be missing.

I’ve used this app for years and love it… when it works. Periodically, though, it glitches and I end up losing hours of editing work. This happens when I open a Word document on my iPad and write on it but then somehow the PDF file it saves is corrupted and I can’t open it with any application on any platform. I sync iAnnotate with DropBox and even going to version history is a dead end. I’m on the market for a new go-to PDF mark-up app because this has happened so frequently.

Other than that, it’s great

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.

The app is so easy to use. I love the convenience of carrying an iPad as opposed to papers.

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.