I took a risk and I feel really burned. I can send a zip file to ZipBroPro. When I tap on the file, it spins for a few seconds and then shows me a list of all of the folders inside the zip file. However, it doesn’t show any of the actual *files*. It only shows folders. There are PDF files scattered through the zip file’s folder structure. However, I can’t see any of those files.

I've had my iPad (3rd gen) over two years with no immediate need or desire to upgrade and purchase a new one. There are only a few non-native apps I still have installed AND use often and Zip Browser Pro is one of them. It's not the sexiest, most attention grabbing app-which is just fine with me. For me, its a pure functional beauty: an easy to use, dependable, task-specific workhorse. Maybe it isn't a "perfect" app. But I doubt a perfect app (or anything else for that matter) exists. The only issue I have with it are not the app's or its design fault. I can't open a pw protected zipped folder and I'm 90% sure fault lies with the user's memory. Besides that one unresolved problem, the app has done everything I've expected it to do as described the tech spec details. Sometimes he best thins are easily taken for granted and under-appreciated for too long which is the reason this review is two years in the making.

Definitely worth getting if only for this one feature...the ability to page thru multiple PDF files with a single tap. I receive daily newspapers as a zip file. Each page of the newspaper unzips as an individual PDF file. With one tap I can sequentially open each PDF page of the newspaper, just like turning the pages of a actual newspaper. Makes reading on the iPad an absolute joy. I've not found any other app that will allow me to do this with zipped PDF files.

I use ZipBroPro as an encrypted password safe. I have a text list of all my passwords and credit cards on my desktop, which I zip and encrypt using the excellent 7-zip, then email it to myself and pick it up on the ipad.ZipBroPro is one of the very few ipad apps that will handle the 7-zip password protocol. One other app worked, but was flaky, slow, and didn't align the columns in the decrypt. ZipBroPro does this elegantly and simply.