PDF Reflow

Name: PDF Reflow
Price: 7.99 USD
Rating: 4.1 (18 reviews)
Author: AppBlit LLC

Mobile friendly PDF and Word

$7.99 · Designed for iPad

18 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

AppBlit LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

3.2
MB

PDF Reflow lets you easily read your PDF and Word documents on your phone. PDF files feel like a mobile optimized web page, fitting the width of your device, without requiring you to zoom in and out, or pan around columns of text. PDF Reflow reformats preserves the original font, colors, and graphics of your documents, research papers, reports, including figures and mathematical formulas. Reflow supports text search, text selection, and lets you adjust the text up to 300% its original size. Please send me your feedback to laurent@appblit.com

Ratings & Reviews

4.1

out of 5

18 Ratings

Works awesome, but unexpectedly deletes PDFs from their location
11/05/2022

horse_socks
The app reflows text in a great way which makes it very easy to read journal publications that are hard to read in their two-column format with tiny text. However, The app deletes PDFs from where they are stored, which is an unxpected and unwanted behavior. It was difficult to recover them, and I never want this to happen. Can you make the app so it does delete my files?
Works awesome, but unexpectedly deletes PDFs from their location
11/05/2022

horse_socks

The app reflows text in a great way which makes it very easy to read journal publications that are hard to read in their two-column format with tiny text. However, The app deletes PDFs from where they are stored, which is an unxpected and unwanted behavior. It was difficult to recover them, and I never want this to happen. Can you make the app so it does delete my files?
Amazing app, highly recommended
12/28/2020

Mulraven
This is really an amazing app. I really wonder why it is not more popular. As a PhD student, I have been looking for an app that would allow me to read research papers in split view and mobile. As most of the paper I read have lots of math, I was never satisfied with all other readers with reflow ability as they cannot successfully reflow math expressions. This one can! It is the best reflow app I used, not only on mobile but also on my Mac. I highly recommend it!Only issue I have sometimes is that the AI adds an unnecessary linebreak inside a sentence, thinking that a new paragraph has started (and sometimes does the opposite). It is really a minor issue, but if that could also be fixed the app would become perfect.Edit: Nice to see the app getting updates. I am wondering if there are any plans to add an option to export the text. It would be amazing to be able use this app to convert pdfs to epub or other formats. It already performs much better than any other converter I used, especially for text with math and figures.

Developer Response
Thank you! Version 1.8 should work better with figures, and I'm working on better grouping math formulas too.
Amazing app, highly recommended
12/28/2020

Mulraven

This is really an amazing app. I really wonder why it is not more popular. As a PhD student, I have been looking for an app that would allow me to read research papers in split view and mobile. As most of the paper I read have lots of math, I was never satisfied with all other readers with reflow ability as they cannot successfully reflow math expressions. This one can! It is the best reflow app I used, not only on mobile but also on my Mac. I highly recommend it!Only issue I have sometimes is that the AI adds an unnecessary linebreak inside a sentence, thinking that a new paragraph has started (and sometimes does the opposite). It is really a minor issue, but if that could also be fixed the app would become perfect.Edit: Nice to see the app getting updates. I am wondering if there are any plans to add an option to export the text. It would be amazing to be able use this app to convert pdfs to epub or other formats. It already performs much better than any other converter I used, especially for text with math and figures.
Developer Response 09/12/2019
Thank you! Version 1.8 should work better with figures, and I'm working on better grouping math formulas too.
Works really well!!
08/13/2024

Mjw285
I’m a heavy academic researcher. I process 2,000 papers for CVPR each year, so I see a lot of PDF files.This app is great! It isn’t perfect - no app that does this can be — but it gets darn close. Figures are somehow segmented and presented separately, and it even works with two-column PDFs emitted by LaTeX! Well worth the asking price.There are some issues. In particular, papers under review tend to have line numbers on the margins of each line, which are sometimes relieved with the text in a way that’s hard to read.Still, I personally believe this domain isn’t really possible to self completely, and this app gets darn close
Works really well!!
08/13/2024

Mjw285

I’m a heavy academic researcher. I process 2,000 papers for CVPR each year, so I see a lot of PDF files.This app is great! It isn’t perfect - no app that does this can be — but it gets darn close. Figures are somehow segmented and presented separately, and it even works with two-column PDFs emitted by LaTeX! Well worth the asking price.There are some issues. In particular, papers under review tend to have line numbers on the margins of each line, which are sometimes relieved with the text in a way that’s hard to read.Still, I personally believe this domain isn’t really possible to self completely, and this app gets darn close
Amazing, but lacks pdf viewer features
06/01/2022

mimoozai
Initially a 5 stars because this is soooo useful, but then realized that it is far from usable because it doesn’t remember the pdf you were reading, or where you were in the doc. It’s exhausting to reopen the pdf and wait for the processing to work and then find the page you were on every time you want to read something. I can do without highlighting but this is tablestake
Amazing, but lacks pdf viewer features
06/01/2022

mimoozai

Initially a 5 stars because this is soooo useful, but then realized that it is far from usable because it doesn’t remember the pdf you were reading, or where you were in the doc. It’s exhausting to reopen the pdf and wait for the processing to work and then find the page you were on every time you want to read something. I can do without highlighting but this is tablestake