GoodReader PDF Editor & Viewer 4+

PDF Annotator, File Manager

Good.iWare, Inc.

    • $9.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

First released in 2009, GoodReader® is truly a veteran of the App Store.

In the modern app business, it's not easy to stay relevant that long. We're proud to say that after 13 years and counting, we've been delivering wonderful updates with extraordinary new features. And we're going to keep doing that!

GoodReader is a perfect combination of document-reading and file-managing capabilities. It's your one-stop shop for all your document needs on your iOS device.

Use the app once, and you'll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to work without it.

-= File Reading =-
PDF, TXT, MS Office, iWork, HTML, pictures, music & audio-books, videos. This is what you can view in GoodReader, plus you can also annotate PDF files and edit TXT files.

-= PDF Reading and Annotating =-
PDF files is where GoodReader truly shines. Reading experience is so superior, it's hard to describe. To rephrase one of our customers' review, "try it, and you'll see." While you're at it, give our PDF Reflow feature a try. You'll be surprised how much better PDF reading goes when you don't have to scroll left/right all the time, for every single line of text.
Annotating PDFs is another star feature of our app. Adding notes and drawings, highlighting text, and then sharing your annotated files or annotation summaries will be your main productivity and collaboration asset.

-= File Management =-
While reading files is a big part of GoodReader, it's not all it can do. It can also serve as a central hub for all your files, even those that can't be opened by GoodReader itself. It's like bringing your personal computer experience to your mobile device — easily managing huge collections of files and folders will make you forget you don't have your laptop around.

-= Connecting =-
Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box.com, WebDAV, SMB, AFP, FTP, SFTP — these are all accessible from inside GoodReader. Download, upload, and sync (*) individual files or huge folder collections.

-= Security =-
With GoodReader, your data security steps up to the level previously only dreamt of. With Pro Pack® (*), our new set of professional-level super-features, you'll get AES-256, a military-grade encryption, for all your data, at a price of a cup of coffee! And it's completely independent from the built-in Apple's Data Protection, so even if a hacker steals and unlocks your device, your data will still be protected by another strong layer of security, our own.

-= Split-Screen =-
This wonderful feature allows you to split (*) an iPad screen in half, to read two files side-by-side. And even two different parts of the same file!

(*): This feature requires a subscription to Pro Pack®, sold separately from inside the app as an in-app purchase.

What’s New

Version 5.18.1195

• Video Player: multiple taps at the screen's edge are now recognized as Skip Forward or Rewind.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
377 Ratings

377 Ratings

xxcvn ,

Stupendous PDF, Use it as my ebook reader

I've been using GoodReader for 9 years on iPhone 3GS. NOW ON IPAD MINI, iPadOS, it is brilliant. I'm sure it does heaps more than I realise. It's super clean layout.
My top 4 enhancements:
1- have ability to 1 tap, help popups, 1 tap off -- I can only digest a few at a time, and after the 5th one I've over it.
2- have ability to use the superior text to speech voice that vBookz uses. GR as ereader is much better than vBookz, as yiu have more control, split screen, annotate etc.. but human voice is much lower quality
3-have ability to set a specific, folder view as gallery. Picture icon. Then to move around, I want to drag.
4-ability to add notes and tag annotations. I often want a print out of subset of my annotations, with my notes. And visually in my gallery see the file has been noted, and annotated

Still brilliant without these.

Finally moved me off using vBookz, app. Originally I also used "PDF expert" app but stopped using test several years back. Plus the price of PDF expert is outrageous.

SimonORorke ,

Resizing Bug

I was a big fan of GoodReader till version 4.12.1, released in February March, when a bug I find most inconvenient was introduced. I routinely resize PDFs to read them without horizontal borders, thus making the text as big as possible in landscape orientation. The bug is that the resizing is lost when I: switch from GoodReader to another app and back; or put the iPad to sleep and then wake the iPad and reopen GoodReader.

At time of writing, it still has not been fixed, even though I and others quickly reported it and received acknowledgement that it was a known problem. Given that GoodReader has subsequently still had enthusiastic reviews, perhaps not everyone experiences the bug or uses the affected feature. But for me it is major.

Finally, I have switched to a different app, PDF Expert. That suffers from no such problem. It also has some other features that I have found improve my reading experience compared with GoodReader.

D2GUser ,

Great app

The last build was horribly slow when jumping in and out of the app especially when using iCloud feature..... not any longer the app has been improved dramatically love it, a must have!

App Privacy

The developer, Good.iWare, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

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